Monique Piras, Senior Director of Product Management at Ironclad, leads the core platform team across various areas.She emphasizes the importance of collaboration and involving engineers and designers early in the product development process.Effective communication with all stakeholders is a key focus for maintaining alignment and driving successful outcomes.Monique stresses the significance of level-setting and mutual respect among team members with diverse backgrounds.She emphasizes the role of product excellence playbooks in breaking down responsibilities for the triad.Monique discusses re-imagining feature briefs to separate high-level summaries from detailed product requirements.Feature briefs at Ironclad include observations, customer impacts, guiding principles, and success metrics.Monique coaches PMs on addressing persona details, user narratives, and validation with customers early in the product development process.She advocates for collaborative reviews of feature briefs to gather insights and avoid working in isolation across different functions.As teams scale, Monique emphasizes evolving the depth of feature briefs through collaboration, discovery work, and alignment.