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:
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!
How do the goal setting differ from small startups to unicorns to public companies?
Goal setting is about objectively putting the vision into actionable items. At a startup, while the broad vision is clear, your quarter or annual goals change as you experiment and get feedback from customers. So you adapt quickly. At a public company, you need to plan for annual targets and expenses, so your goal setting is at least a year out. There, the job of CXOs and like is to manage the risk of some bets not working out. (Cue - Margin Call scene of "Why I make the big bucks..."). Unicorns are somewhere in the middle. Similar principles, different variances. All said and done, goal setting is important to clearly communicate to the org where we are headed. I'd also recommend personal goal setting for the same reasons. You should have a vision of where you want to be in 1 year, 2 years, 5 years. Better to base it on problems you want to solve rather than the $/title you want. Easier said than done.
Margin Call is underrated ++
Amazing cast.
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Tell us about this from your startup experience. If they did, then what %age gains did you end up making from them.
Also, how did the liquidation event turn out for you?
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How do you work on the perception that is building this year that all PMs do is talk? PMs everywhere lately get trolled behind their backs. I honestly find worth in thr role. Just curious
Seen both sides of it. Seen PMs who just talk and others who solve. Just focus on the quality of the work, and make sure you have a good boss who can bat for you at the right places. Rest will take care of itself.
No one asked but I just want to say as an SDE that I really appreciate the work done by my past PM and APMs. They were excellent and involved the tech team closely in many product decisions. The PM was very transparent on what they didn't knew. Additionally in any interaction with him, I could always learn something new about the product or industry. Thank you all legit PMs for making our lives easier.
How did you crack cross team collaboration (especially w/ engineering teams) over time?
Iām not a PM, but as part of my role I find it to be the hardest thing
Cross team collaboration is important. As many questions have indicated already, it is amply clear that PMs generally have to prove the worth and demonstrate that the direction they want to take the team in, and the team has to truly believe that the direction is worth going in and investing their time in. So, to foster cross team collaboration, you give visibility into the problems, solve them together, debate on them and have the team's be on the same page. It works better when you are focusing on solving the problem rather than who solves the problem.
Thanks for answering, very helpful My main challenge today is being unable to figure out if the timelines that engineers/designers are coming back with are fair
At what point did you become good at figuring this out?
Hey everyone, happy to answer any questions around Data Science/ML/AI and making a career within it
A brief about me, I work currently as a Sr. ML Engineer at an Indian unicorn startup I graduated 5+ years ago and have since worked ...
Currently working with series A startup as product marketing manager at 23lpa. Joined them in july at near zero increment because last company shut down. Have proven my metal here and getting extra responsibilities.
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AMA. Happy to answer anything about the Product. I'm looking forward to it.
