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Top 11 Product Management KPIs to Track - 2025 Guide

PUBLISHED

18 November, 2024

Tope Longe
Tope Longe

Growth Marketing Manager

Product Management KPIs

Understanding and tracking product management KPIs is important for any mobile app product team. It’s not just about creating a great user experience, it’s about ensuring that the product delivers value, meets business objectives, and achieves market success.

In this UXCam guide, we will delve into the importance of product management KPIs, how to track them effectively, and why this is a must-know topic for product teams—not just UX teams.

Let’s get started.

Key Product KPIs to track

Product Management KPIDescription
Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)How much money your product is generating on a recurring basis.
Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)How satisfied customers are with your product.
Trial Drop-off RateHow many users who sign up for your trial don't convert to paying customers.
Average Revenue Per User (ARPU)How much revenue each user generates.
Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)How much it costs to acquire a single customer.
Net Promoter Score (NPS)How likely your customers are to recommend your product.
Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV)How much a customer is worth over their lifetime with your product.
Daily/Monthly Active User Ratio (DAU/MAU Ratio)The ratio of how many users are active on a daily and monthly basis.
Session DurationHow much time a user spends on your product.
Time to First RespondHow long it takes for customer support to respond to a query.
Retention RateHow many customers stick with your product over time.

By tracking these KPIs, product teams can gain valuable insights into their product’s performance, user engagement, and market position. This data can guide strategic decision-making and help teams optimize their product for success.

What are product management KPIs?

Let’s start more simply—what is product management? It’s the practice of managing a product’s development process, including research, design, testing, and launching.

Product management key performance indicators (KPIs) are measurable values that product managers use to make sure that their decisions are driving the desired results.

For example, Housing.com’s product manager Guarav Jain uses UXCam to validate ideas with real user data. His team collected data on feature usage, user engagement, and purchase activity to identify opportunities for improvement.

We use UXCam to validate our product ideas and test our hypotheses with raw actionable user insights.

Guarav Jain, Lead product manager at Housing.com

As we’ll see, there are all kinds of product management metrics that you can track. The metrics you should be tracking will depend on your product and goals.

Benefits of product management KPIs

Measuring progress

Product management KPIs serve as a yardstick for measuring the progress of a product. They provide quantifiable data that can be used to assess whether the product is on track to meet its objectives. By regularly monitoring these KPIs, product teams can identify trends, track changes over time, and gauge the effectiveness of their strategies.

Alignment with business goals

KPIs make sure that the product’s objectives align with the broader business goals. They help product teams understand how their work contributes to the company’s overall success. This alignment fosters a sense of purpose within the team and promotes a culture of accountability and ownership.

Focus on customer value

Product management KPIs often include metrics related to customer satisfaction, retention, and engagement. These metrics help product teams maintain a customer-centric approach, ensuring that they're creating value for the end-user. By focusing on customer value, product teams can build products that meet business objectives and resonate with users.

Data-driven decision-making

Lastly, Product Management KPIs facilitate data-driven decision-making. They provide objective, quantifiable data that can guide strategic planning and decision-making. This data-driven approach reduces guesswork and bias, leading to more effective and efficient product development.

How to track product management KPIs effectively

  1. Set goals

  2. Match goals with KPIs

  3. Set KPI targets

  4. Choose the right tool and build dashboards

  5. Monitor and analyze changes

  6. Act on insights

1. Set goals

You should never choose KPIs at random. Every element of your tracking plan should be directly tied to a goal you’re actively trying to achieve. We’ll talk more about connecting KPIs to goals in a moment—for now, think about the big picture. 

What are you trying to accomplish with your product?

Product management goals can span from increasing conversions to boosting user engagement and more. Don’t worry about being concrete yet—just capture the gist of what you’re working towards.

For example:

  • Increasing the amount of time users spend on the platform.

  • Improving the onboarding flow.

  • Winning a bigger market share.

  • Reducing the workload of our support team.

There’s no “right” number of goals, but try to keep it focused. We recommend sticking to seven or fewer.

2. Match goals with KPIs

Now it’s time to give your goals a measurable aspect by pairing them with relevant KPIs. These metrics will help you track progress toward your goals in an actionable way so that you can make strategic decisions and measure success.

For example:

  • Goal: Increasing the amount of time users spend on the platform.

  • KPI: Average time per session.

Or:

  • Goal: Improving the onboarding flow.

  • KPIs: Trial drop-off rate, retention rate, churn rate, etc.

In some cases, there may be only one KPI that relates to a goal, and in others there may be many. It’s important to choose the right ones and make sure they're tracking the progress you want to make.

3. Set KPI targets

Once you have a selection of product management KPIs, you can start setting targets. Try to keep them specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely (or “SMART”) to get the most out of them.

Start by collecting data on your baseline performance for every metric you want to track. You can then use these figures to set realistic targets and measure your progress over time. Then set targets based on the improvement you need to see to achieve a specific goal.

4. Build product management KPI dashboards

Next, it’s time to build dashboards that will help you monitor your KPIs without needing to go hunting for insights.

Most monitoring and analytics tools will have some kind of built-in dashboard functionality. Use this to design effective visualizations of your KPIs over time or against other metrics, which will provide a more holistic view of product performance.

For example, here’s a mobile product analytics dashboard built in UXCam.

Dashboard Product intelligence uxcam

The UXCam dashboard builder allows you to create custom charts, tables and graphs that automatically update as new data is collected. You can also add pre-built reports to get a more complete picture. And since it’s a modular system, you can resize and move each element to prioritize the information most relevant to your goals.

For web-based products, there are dedicated tools available like:

  • Mixpanel

  • Google Analytics

  • Hotjar

5. Monitor and analyze changes

With your dashboard(s) set up, you can now monitor and analyze changes in product behavior. Look for trends or patterns that could be indicative of a larger problem using event analytics and heatmaps. Zoom in on an individual user’s experience and behavior with session replays and user journey mapping to define issues and brainstorm solutions.

Also, be sure to incorporate A/B testing into your workflow, so you can track the impact of changes (or lack thereof) on user engagement over time.

6. Act on insights

Finally, use the data and insights you’ve gathered to inform strategies for improvement. Test hypotheses, run experiments with users, and deploy changes based on data-driven decisions.

The goal is to continuously seek out ways to improve user experience and optimize product performance. Your analytics dashboard should be used as a tool to measure success, not just collect data. Use what you learn to inform product decisions and iterate on user experience.

Conclusion

Tracking product management KPIs is essential for delivering successful products that meet customer needs and business goals. By measuring the right metrics, you can align your team, prioritize your roadmap, and communicate your progress and impact.

UXCam is a mobile product analytics tool that helps product managers measure usage, engagement, and more. Use UXCam to get real-time insights on how users interact with your product and adjust your roadmap accordingly.

Try UXCam for free today.

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Tope Longe
Tope Longe

Growth Marketing Manager

Ardent technophile exploring the world of mobile app product management at UXCam.

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