Being a product manager in an enterprise context is different. A 1% conversion improvement in a startup might mean 50 more sign-ups. A 1% conversion improvement when you have millions of customers means tens of millions in revenue or thousands of hours saved across your user base.

Your leverage isn't building fast - it's that your work affects real scale. Shave 2 seconds off a checkout flow and you've saved weeks of cumulative customer time. Fix one friction point in a core platform and you've improved productivity for every team that uses it.

The best enterprise PMs I know optimize for impact per change, not changes per sprint. They focus on the highest-leverage improvements because small wins compound across massive user bases into transformational outcomes.