Product Manager

Product Owner

Growth Manager

You dont have as much control as you think you do.

Product Marketing Manager

The most important learning is to be okay with failing.

Choose your battles wisely. There are only so many debates you can have. There are only so many debates your stakeholders will have with you (happily).

I think product is far better than sales, and that keeps me grateful. Working on new stuff every couple of weeks is intellectually rewarding than just pushing people under you to achieve numbers each week, every month, every quarter till death.

My learning is, so take wins or losses on yourself.

You work in a lot of ambiguous environment. No one gives any sort of direction. This is true regarding strategy side of PM. However, on execution side you have some certainty

Finding a structure and directions in most ambiguous problems. Experimentation brings clarity and data is your best friend, always learn from your engineering counterparts and learn  the whole product e2e even the GTM and the sales side and not just the user empathy side.

Associate Product Manager

As a young PM, zindgi me sukoon chahte ho to jabtak salah maangi na jaaye tabtak mat do.

Inspired from @salt post in Product Managers channel.

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

What was the most important learning you have had as a Product Manager?

What was the most important learning you have had as a Product Manager?- Grapevine

To folks who have loved working with a Product Manager at any point, what are some of the most important traits you admired about them?

Was it the personality/smartness, or their passion for work or something else entirely?

In my quest to understand what it takes to be the BEST Product Manager.

What is the most underrated skill to be a great product manager? 

Mine has always been the ability to make friends with people at the office. SWEs, other PMs etc

Underrated skills to have for Product Management

What are the mistakes you made? What do you think you did well? What could you have done better? What is the most difficult aspect of the job? What would you hope others understood about the role?

Your experience being a product manager

What is the most essential skills to learn for product managers

I really wanted to build great products and have a say in how they would be built. To thrive in ambiguity and find relationships between causality and features is an addictive feeling. What about you?

What inspired you to become a Product Manager?

Preferably interested in knowing the skills with which you up your game outside the work.

How do you learn Product Management?

Hey folks,

Looking to up my game in product management! 📊 Any favorite books, courses, or podcasts you recommend? Share your go-to resources! 📚 

If you have any go-to resources such as books, online courses, podcasts, or blogs that have helped you on your product management journey, please share them with me! 📚 I'm particularly interested in resources that offer practical insights, real-world examples, and strategies for effective product development and management.

Your recommendations will be invaluable as I continue to grow in my role. Thank you in advance for your suggestions! 🌟

#ProductManagement #LearningResources #ProductDevelopment #TechSkills

🚀 Seeking Product Management Learning Resources 🚀

What's the most valuable soft skill for a product manager?

Share your 2 cents keep it short and to just 1 advice!

Drop one solid advice for someone who wants to be a Product Manager! 🦄

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

Hey. I have close to 6 years of Experience in Sales and Customer centric roles but recently I have developed an interest in Product Development. For reference, I have an Engineering degree in Computer Science and MBA as well. 

A few questions for clarity: 

1. Is it possible to make this transition into a Product role at this stage of my career? 
2. If I want to teach myself the skills of a product manager, how should I start and what resources should i refer to, to begin with that can start the learning process?

Transition to a Product Role

Customer Success

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Note - I am a product manager too

4 out of 5 product managers will act all high and mighty of themselves, bragging their way as if they run everything going on in the company, flaunting their business degrees and being utterly disrespectful towards their team( dev design qa name it), 

Recently started going to office so the attitude I am seeing is very transparent and more visible (more with the higher experience folks)

It makes me wanna leave this hyper inflated role, thinking of I will end up like them scares me, and you have to do is speak out jargons in meetings day in day out and have a English accent of Shashi Tharoor.

Recently my manager told that this is a role where you have to very representable or very visible and act in floor as if you are the busiest person on earth and I seriously some PMs in company doing that, they walk so fast in floor as if they will fall off or would be better to have 4 legs.

I am done with this product management shit

Experienced Product, Tech, Sales, founder folks of GV, what would be your one piece of advice for a new APM/PM (1-2 yoe) in the industry, that would help them in the long run.
Feel free to also let us know any mistakes you made as a Product guy, early in your career.

Advice for PMs!

Im a Product Manager 1yoe in a SaaS startup.
I had a good experience in the first year. I got to build a product 0-1, competitor analysis, work on creating prioritization frameworks, UAT, content marketing, wireframing.

However, since January the compamy started their stabilization phase, and PM's are now taking care of Sales and lead generation(Content, Ads etc.). The nail in the coffin is we are getting dragged to follow up renewals( Customer Success) 🤢

Im currently motivated to building something new, and it feels like we are being dragged into everything as the company does not want to hire. With no pay hike or any adfitional benefit.

Please advice. Should I look for a new job?

Need advice

What skills are needed for product management?

I want to understand if this is common for folks and is there a way to tackle it.

I have recently moved my career from Talent Acquisition to Product Management Internally in my organization. My New Manager has also very recently joined the team. I see him barely investing time in understanding the skillset I hold and whenever there's a time of taking some responsibilities he will give it to others. I have been doing some operational work for the past 1 month now, majorly with excel sheets and coordination. 

I want to start working as a Product Management Professional and not as an operational Guy !

Open to suggestions on how to take this up !

Early days as Product Management Professional

I have been sooo interested in Product Management, as an outsider with no technical knowledge but all the passion for it.
I intended to become a Product Manager taking the hard route (non technical background), but at this point I am still looking to learn more about it. Please share your thoughts, experience and tips?

What do you guys do?

Marketing Manager

**The Good**

Let’s start with the positives, even though they are much better documented. It’s pretty easy to “fake it till you make it.” I am not alone in feeling the imposter syndrome. Yet, a huge part of being a PM is just asking good questions, learning, listening, and trying to be impartial. Coincidentally, that is exactly what you should do when you don’t know what you are doing—just try to learn. 

And honestly, it’s really fun. People like to harp on the challenges and skills you need to be a PM, but I feel like no one talks about how enjoyable the job is. You’re in the middle of strategy, business, design, and customers. Every day is about solving problems. It is hectic, yes, but it is also very rewarding. 

There’s another thing: people like you. It’s shallow to admit it, but the truth is, as a PM, you are delivering value to your company and stakeholders. People appreciate that. 

**The Bad**

But let’s not sugarcoat it; it’s exhausting. Even if you’re an extrovert (which I am not), spending hours in meetings, collaborating, and navigating requirements is exhausting work. The pressure can be overwhelming.

When you do badly, it all goes badly. When things are in sync, being a PM feels almost easy. But when the wheels start to come off, it is brutal. Deadlines get missed, you screw up MVPs, you piss off stakeholders, and you feel backed into a corner. It really isn’t fun to let down other people, but it really sucks when you let yourself down. Since so much of the PM job is interacting with internal and external stakeholders, your successes often feel hidden while your failures feel public. A lot of times, it’s because of things outside of your control too.

And then there’s the hard part: saying no. You have to say no a lot as a PM. Often, it is to people that far outrank you, like your CEO. There are countless books written about this topic, but no one is open about the fact that saying no kind of sucks. It feels good to give people what they want. Even though saying no is the right thing to do, that doesn’t make it easy or fun.

What are some truths (good and bad) about product management that noone talks about?

Hey everyone, excited to be doing this AMA!

A brief about me, I work currently as a Director of Product at an Indian unicorn startup 

About my career: 
- Did my undergrad from IIT and then masters from an Ivy league school
- Have been in product for almost 10 years now - across 2 Indian unicorn startups and a publicly listed company

Would love to take questions on what it means to be a PM, growing within the role, building your career, and other things :) 

Will be back here at 4 pm and start replying
Shoot away!

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