The FullStory Behavioral Analytics PM

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A senior product manager, digital experience lead, or data-savvy UX researcher at a company of 200–5,000 people where FullStory was purchased as a platform — not a point tool. They use it to answer questions that neither analytics dashboards nor individual session recordings can answer alone: what does the full behavioral pattern look like for users who churn? Where in the enterprise checkout flow do users consistently struggle? Which UI elements are generating frustration signals at scale? They work with data. They also watch sessions. Both inform the decision.

• →Understand user behavior at a depth that explains the numbers in the funnel
• →Surface and prioritize friction in the product before it shows up in churn data
• →Bring behavioral evidence to product decisions that would otherwise be made on opinion

• —Data volume that makes it hard to find the signal — 50,000 sessions per day
• —is not useful without the right query
• —Rage click and frustration signal data that's interesting in aggregate but requires
• —session watching to understand what's actually happening
• —The privacy and data governance complexity that comes with capturing full session data
• —Getting non-technical stakeholders to trust behavioral data they can't directly inspect

• User behavior is a product requirement — what users actually do supersedes what
• they say they want and what the team assumes they do
• Behavioral data without context is noise — the story is in the pattern, not the individual session
• Digital experience is a product quality metric, not a UX team concern

Uses FullStory at an enterprise or growth-stage company with significant web traffic. Works with a FullStory workspace shared across product, UX, and analytics teams. Builds custom segments and signal reports rather than using default dashboards. Uses FullStory's API to pipe behavioral signals into their data warehouse. Has privacy masking configured for PII fields — PCI and HIPAA compliance where relevant. Reviews FullStory alongside Mixpanel or Amplitude — behavioral and quantitative in parallel. Presents FullStory findings in product reviews and design critiques.

• →Signal-to-session navigation that goes from a frustration cluster directly to
• →representative sessions removes the "I see the signal but need to understand it" gap
• →Automated anomaly detection that flags when frustration signals spike in a specific
• →flow surfaces problems before they appear in churn or support ticket data
• →Privacy controls granular enough to capture meaningful behavioral data while
• →meeting enterprise data governance requirements remove the compliance-vs-insight tradeoff
• →Cross-session journey stitching that follows a user across sessions and devices
• →reveals the full path to conversion or abandonment, not just the last session

Pairs with `hotjar-primary-user` to map the SMB-lightweight vs. enterprise-behavioral-platform session analysis tools. Contrast with `mixpanel-primary-user` for the qualitative behavioral vs. quantitative funnel analysis approaches used in parallel. Use with `pagerduty-primary-user` for product teams who want behavioral signal anomalies to trigger the same alerting infrastructure as production incidents.