Product Management Career

What does it take to become a great product manager, or to lead and inspire product teams? When do you know that people management the right career move for you? How do you build your product intuition, hone your execution, strengthen your leadership, and develop your strategic skills? In our book Cracking the PM Career we Read more »

In this #mtpcon Digital APAC session, Smriti Pant, then Product Manager at Hike, talks us through 5 rookie product management strategy mistakes and offers tips and tricks to solve them all. In brief You should factor motivation, timeline, capability, and alternatives into every product decision you make You can avoid taking a solution-first approach by Read more »

We’ve all had the experience of presenting to the leadership team — but what do they say about you when you leave the room?  What’s it like to work at that level? And how do you get promoted to the C-suite? We talked with experienced product and boardroom veteran, Tanya Cordrey about all of this Read more »

In this ProductTank London talk, Osaseri Guobadia, product director at Songkick, provides a framework for how you can gain confidence in yourself and encourage others around you to be confident in your capabilities. Read more »

In this #mtpcon Digital APAC session, Silvia Thom, CTO at Zalora, reveals her journey from product manager to CTO. She describes challenges she faced, the opportunities she uncovered and offers advice for product managers hoping to undergo a similar move. In brief Leading engineers without a technical background is doable — be prepared to ask Read more »

In this ProductTank London talk, Alison Hickson, head of product at Linktree, talks about the changes she made as she moved from being an external product manager to becoming an internal product manager. She shares some tips to help product managers understand and thrive in an internal product manager role. Watch the video to see Read more »

After seven years working in product, I had the opportunity to become People Manager. Using the skills and knowledge I got over the years working with products, I framed this change in familiar terms that helped me in the transition: SWOT analysis, Vision, Product Lifecycle, Market fit… Whether you’re considering taking a similar step in Read more »

Ben Foster has more than 20 years of product management experience. He was formerly a senior product manager at eBay, vice president of product at Opower, and chief product officer at GoCanvas. Here’s how he got his most recent job in product as a CPO at WHOOP Read more »

There’s no better training ground than working in Emergency Services for learning how to deal with stress, uncertainty, prioritisation with imperfect information, and challenging stakeholders. Coincidentally, these are all skills that are key to working in product. Nathan Henry joins us on the podcast this week to chat about how he leverages the skills he Read more »

In this ProductTank Exeter talk, director of product at Slack, Ellie Powers, provides some insights into what resilience looks like as a product manager in light of the year we’ve experienced since the start of the pandemic. Read more »