All termsPRODUCT & MARKET

User Persona

Also known as: Buyer Persona · Customer Persona

DEFINITION

A research-backed composite of a specific user type within your ICP — their role, goals, pain points, tools, and decision triggers.

In depth

Unlike an ICP (company-level), a persona is a human-level profile. Good personas come from real interviews, not workshop whiteboards. They answer: what does this person do every day, what frustrates them, what do they hire a product like yours to do?

Limit yourself to 2–3 personas per product. More than that and messaging splinters.

Put it into practice

tool

Customer Persona Builder

Related terms

ICP

The exact description of the customer your product serves best — company size, industry, role, maturity, pain point.

JTBD

A framework that defines products by the job a customer hires them to do, not by the customer's demographics or features.

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Last reviewed 14 April 2026 by Abhi Verma.