what your role as product analyst, what do you do in general?

Machine Learning Engineer

Software Developer

I work in the Product Analyst for a US based startup. I have not had anything to do for the last one week, while my team that comprises of Dev and Design folks have a lot of work. I feel very usele...

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I work in the Product Analyst for a US based startup. I have not had anything to do for the last one week, while my team that comprises of Dev and Design folks have a lot of work. I feel very useless in the office. My company would be glad to have me contribute to design or development but I don’t have the skillsets for it. 
My question to the ones reading this here, is if I must acquire the design skills(Figma) or development skills(Frontend) and contribute to the product development efforts simultaneously expanding my skillset or acquire product management skills and build my profile well as the natural career progression of my job is in and towards Product management(especially considering that I am a fresher and I don’t have any prior product experience). I wish to stay in the Product field in foreseeable future.
Please help me out with this folks, TIA!

Feeling useless at my job

Product analyst

Feeling useless at my job- Grapevine

With over 10+ years of experience in Product management within the insurance and Fintech sector, I’ve realized that product management is still not understood/defined well as a role. I’m open to all sort of queries.

Ex-Policybazaar Product Head #AMA

Product Owner

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

I am PM with around 5 yrs of experience. I’m struggling to take my skill to next level. always receive feedback from management that output isn’t good, mostly that UX isn’t good. what can I do to improve my work?

1. Read books ? 
2. Study successful products from outside ?
3. Listen to podcasts 
4. Work with great product people? but hardly these exist 
5. leave this field altogether?
6. Just have patience and keep learning everyday?

Can experienced people share what has worked out well for them? or point me to some directions?

How to up your game as a Product Manager?

Software Engineer

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

In my current company there is no product manager for my team, for a very long period of time, have been raising this concern for a very long period of time, but no action has been taken in this, few of the good folks also left the company due to this.
In the interview can we mention that not many product development requirements have come in and the work has been mostly bug fixes or some minor features?

Yoe 2 years

Need Career advice

I work for a private sector bank in India as a product manager. The bank is still lagging behind in terms of tools and softwares. We never use JIRA, Power BI or any other commonly used tools/software in product management. It is largely MS Excel,word or Powerpoint driven. Though the story is pretty much same for all Indian banks but I want to upskill and be confident enough to interview for any PM role outside of banking.
Please suggest what should be my upskill path and how do I stay competitive.

Banking Product Manager Dilemma

Product Manager

I am currently managing a product, which has not really scaled up as expected over the last 1.5 years.

Hand to heart, I can say I have given my best in terms of efforts but still the outcomes are not as expected due to many factors beyond my control.

Now this has created a perception amongst senior management that my team is working very slowly and not able to build what customers want.

It is very difficult to change this perception in short term

I have asked for change of product portfolio multiple times but that is not getting entertained.

Any suggestions if I want to stay in this company (other than the very obvious - looking for opportunities outside the organisation.)

Career dilemma- Product Management

PM of 5 years. Same place the whole time. We have a new Engineering Manager. 

They started 2 months ago and at first they seemed like they were very happy to learn our process and products. Then they soon started to manipulate the Engineering team which was very cooperative earlier.

It’s incredibly demotivating. We are a small startup, and the culture isn’t great but seriously no need to be so dismissive of other people’s efforts and feelings. They are just fucking rude. No other word for it really. The problem is that they do NOT get the product side of things so you can’t explain anything to them. They start to physically roll their eyes when you go anymore product than the word “PRD”.

I have never had to deal with someone like this and it’s really stressing me out as they are involved in effectively every project I work on. Advice that isn’t “quit” will be appreciated.

I should also clarify that when I say “product limitations” I really mean how much effort goes into getting things right, the delays are shearing the roadmap apart.

why do Software Engineers act so rude? How to solve this in my team?

As a Product Manager, why do Software Engineers act so rude?

Hi, I'm currently working as a Product Analyst at a promising startup, where I've been working on enhancing product delivery processes, keeping a check on deadlines (part of PMO), and driving client adoption for the past 1.5 years. 

Here my primary responsibilities involve conducting data analysis of projects and tickets, identifying trends and patterns, and providing insights to inform product decisions. However, I'm not directly involved in the core decision-making processes that shape product strategy.

This is my first job and I feel there will be nothing specific that I will own in project management and/or process excellence, there is nothing much to grow in this field, and pretty much anybody can replace this task, *please correct me if I'm wrong. 

I'm particularly fascinated by the prospect of building solutions that will directly impact our clients hence the real world, developing innovative product strategies, and bringing impact to the business. 

I have some questions and seeking guidance. Insights, personal experiences, or any guidance will help me a lot. Thanks in advance.

- Should I consider pursuing a product management role?
- Or should I step toward product strategy? 
- If I need to get into product strategy, how can I do that? is an MBA a must for this kind of role?
- Or are there other avenues that might be more suitable for my current skillset and experience?

Looking for answers and guidance on my career.

Hey folks, 

So I work as a product intern and have an offer to join full time as an Associate Product Manager at a Fintech B2B startup upon graduating. 

So cutting to the chase, 

Recently I have been under tremendous pressure to deliver a product. Our organisation does not have any senior product manager to help guide and I report directly to the CEO. I have been given far too much responsibility and an extremely sophisticated product has been put in my care. 

This product requires a lot of technical expertise and we do not have that kind of resources. I have put this point across to my boss multiple times over the past few months and he always says we will do it. 

He goes and promises clients that this product exists they even did a soft launch of this product when we literally have not built more than a few screens. 

Our company has a high employee turnover and people keep quitting left right and centre due to the Co-founders toxic attitude. 

Recently I have been feeling very anxious starting work in the mornings. Most days go late into the nights because the Co founders work in a different time zone. 


So the dilemma here is this, I feel the urge to quit this job but at the same time I am afraid that another opportunity will not present itself soon. They also pay me pretty well compared to other product intern roles out there. 

I know a lot of people are out there fighting for a product intern or an APM role and here I have it and am considering quitting. 

Please feel free to ask me any follow up questions and forgive me if it sounded more like a rant. 

I am open to hearing your advise. 

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Need advise

Hey Grapeviners, 

I need some serious help. 

Bit about myself - just graduated this month and working as an APM at a seed stage startup. I have 1.5 years of product experience and 3 years of overall experience. 

Lately, not sure why but I am loving what engineers do. Closely working with them, and I guess it's nostalgic for myself. Because I did coding for 6 months and moved on for some reason. So, I understand how tech actually works. Have got good feedback regarding this. 

At the same time, I am not really finding the true value of what I am doing everyday. Feels a void inside. 

Also, I am not able to discuss all these things in person with someone, because I fear that they will judge me after doing internships for 3 years, I still haven't figured out my career. Such a loser I am. 

I have been thinking about starting coding again and maybe switching to a coding job in the next 6 months maybe. But again it would be tough for me as I only got weekends for me to learn all this stuff. 

What do you all experienced folks suggest? What should I do? 

Please comment if you can help🙏

Switch from PM to Engineer

What are the best places to signal in the market that you are a great product manager
Unfortunately, I am stuck in a job that is driven by the whims and fancies of the CEO
My product leader is not that great 
I am B. tech +MBA 
Stuck in these kind of offices since 3 years 
Nothing is working for me 
Please help

Product Management Advice

Hello All!! Needed some advice with upskilling to further my career in Product Management and add more dimensions to it. 

For some context, I have 4.5+ YoE in the software industry, primarily functional roles including about 3 years in Product Management. 

I want to up-skill myself in some hard skills as I think I have decent exposure in soft skills/functional aspects of PM but lack in the former. 

Have been thinking of the following: 
1. APIs (Conceptual and hands on) 
2. Data Analysis (SQL to be precise) 
3. Low/No Code Tools 

I have about 6 months before I start looking for a new role and want to add these to my profile so as to land a good job. 

Please share your inputs and feedback if these would be useful in a real-life scenario and any other suggestions, if applicable. 

Counting on the advice and thanks in advance :)

Up-skilling as a Product Manager

Hey grapeviners, I am a software engineer and earning pretty good, but I have always dreamt of becoming a product manager. I don't hold any MBA. So How do I transition from a software engineer to a product manager.

Software Engineer to a Product Manager

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Hi All,
I need advice from experienced folks here. I joined a recruitment firm working in blue collar around 6 months back as a Product Manager. Around 4 months into the system, I was tasked to build the business intelligence system (it has been ongoing).

My manager asked me to whether I want to continue in data and build core skills in data analytics based on my interest and what plans for career.

I am a little confused here since I haven’t tried real Product per se and although I enjoy working with data I am not sure whether to build career as a BA and if I can build data competency working as a PM. I need to get back to them by next Tuesday.

What are your thoughts here? Please be brutally honest, will appreciate pros and cons

Thank You!

Need Advice - Product Manager vs Business Analyst

I am working as a Technical Associate and have 2 yoe
How can I explore product management sector.
Any suggestions?

Need Advice

Business Associate

Hello everyone,

This is my first post. I am a recent graduate from NIT, and unfortunately, I haven't been able to get a placement. My career goal is to work in a Product Management (PM) role. As a fresher, I've taken the initiative to start learning about this industry

I have completed four courses in Product Management, covering areas such as:
- Product Analysis
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Market Analysis

I am eager to apply my skills and start my journey in this exciting field. I am looking for opportunities  where I can further develop my expertise and grow as a Product Manager.

Any advice or leads on where I can apply to gain more experience would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Need help for becomingal a products manager

I have 8 years of total work experience, graduated from a Tier I college. I still feel lost as to what future holds. Kickass & genuine advises on professional, personal fronts are most welcome. I am sure a lot of folks could relate.

I am into Product Management. Any sincere advises please for the career ahead?

I am a software engineer with 3 years of experience .For the first two initial years I was working as a QA in one of the good product companies with a very sorted work life balance .
I had recently switched to a BE role in a startup 
I am very much lagging behind here because of my QA background  ,the people here are very much talented and are great problem solvers .How do I reach that level ?
I have been  struggling to keep up with the pace here and finding it difficult to approach the tasks,even though i have been giving so much of time to work .
And the TL  in my team have a certain amount of expectations and hence they don't help according to that .(which i feel is fair)
How should I approach this  and level up here 
Anyone with a similar background and story please share your experience :) 
Any advice would really help

Need advice

Please let me know about the companies looking for product managers/analysts for freshers. Internship and FTE roles both are to be considered.
Thanks.

Any company hiring for Product Roles for freshers?

Hi all, I am a mechanical engineering graduate with no experience. Looking to transition to product management. Completed Nptel certificate courses in product management. Please mentor /advise me about the mandatory requirements to get my first job in PM.

Feeling useless at my job

Discover More

Product Managers on

by Kendall Vernon

Stealth

Ex-Policybazaar Product Head #AMA

Business Roles on

by Coy Dean

Freelancer

How to up your game as a Product Manager?

Software Engineers on

by Kendall Gabriel

Stealth

Need Career advice

Product Managers on

by Coy Lee

Kotak Mahindra Bank

Banking Product Manager Dilemma

Product Managers on

by Jordon Vernon

Airtel

Career dilemma- Product Management

Product Managers on

by Isaiah Denver

Stealth

As a Product Manager, why do Software Engineers act so rude?

Product Managers on

by Jordon Lee

Others

Looking for answers and guidance on my career.

Product Managers on

by Dezi Nadeen

Stealth

Need advise

Product Managers on

by Jordon Olive

Stealth

Need advise

Product Managers on

by Jordon Lee

Contlo

Switch from PM to Engineer

Product Managers on

by Kendall Denver

Traya

Product Management Advice

Product Managers on

by Jordon Everett

Urban Ladder

Up-skilling as a Product Manager

Product Managers on

by Coy Taye

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Software Engineer to a Product Manager

Indian Startups on

by Jordon Nadeen

Stealth

Need Advice - Product Manager vs Business Analyst

Product Managers on

by Kalan Lee

ZS Associates

Need Advice

Product Managers on

by Kendall Olive

Student

Need help for becomingal a products manager

Product Managers on

by Jordon Carmden

Stealth

I am into Product Management. Any sincere advises please for the career ahead?

Software Engineers on

by Dezi Lee

CleverTap

Need advice

Product Managers on

by Jordon Everett

Stealth

Any company hiring for Product Roles for freshers?

Product Managers on

by Jordon Vernon