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Product Manager Career Path: Positions, Responsibilities, and How to Advance

Product Management University

Product management is one of the hottest careers in high-tech right now with tremendous career growth. If you’re considering a career in this industry, you’ll need to know exactly what will be expected of you as a product manager. What Does a Product Management Career Path Look Like?

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 7 of 10 – Portfolio Positioning Is What Makes Your Product Positioning More Strategic

Product Management University

Here’s a simple example of portfolio positioning and how it makes your product positioning more strategic. Your accounts payable product improves the customer’s cash flow. Your accounts receivable product further enhances cash flow. It sounds strategic. What CFO doesn’t want a stronger balance sheet?

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The 12 Days of Product Management: A Festive Journey for Product Managers

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‘Tis the season to be jolly, and what better way to celebrate than with a holiday spin in the world of product management! Day 1: Estimation that is guilt-free On the first day of product, my PM gave to me – estimation that’s guilt-free! Day 2: Two product demos The second day brings demos so bright!

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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Product Management: Guide to Thriving as a Product Manager

Being a Product Manager can be incredibly rewarding. In the best of scenarios, they craft their product’s vision, influence the process of bringing their product to life, and gain first-hand knowledge of how their product is directly impacting people.

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The Power of Product Positioning and the “7 Ps” Marketing Mix

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PlayStation Classic was designed with far too little consideration into product positioning — the most important point of product marketing — and the blunder in sales was a direct result of this glaring oversight. What is Product Positioning? That’s the power of positioning. customers pay more for it.

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Christine Itwaru, Head of Product Management at Vitally.io

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For our next installment of our Women in Product Management Series, I interviewed   Christine Itwaru , Head of Product at Vitally.io.   Nicole : Welcome and thank you, Christine. I’m very excited to have you share your insights and experiences in Product Management. Christine : Thank you, Nicole, for having me.

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Six New Year Resolutions for Product Managers

Find out how ProdPad’s six New Year Resolutions for product managers will help you make positive changes for the way you think about product management as a practice and for how you do your job. It’s 2021, a new year, a new hope.

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How to Get Promoted – Climbing the Product Management Ranks

Glassdoor ranks Product Manager as Top 10 on their 2022 Best Jobs in America list. The earning potential of a Product Manager, a big factor on this ranking, boasts a median base salary of $125,000+. While there are more than 41,000 Product Managers currently employed in the U.S. Double down on skills.

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Defining the product vision is a high-stakes exercise, which makes it all the more important to avoid some common pitfalls product managers encounter: confusing the company’s vision with their product vision, defining a vision that’s too abstract to be useful in strategic planning, or combining the “what” and the “how” in the product vision.

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Iterate Your Way to a Top Analytics Product Experience

Speaker: Richard Cheng, Associate Product Manager, Mark43

To fix traditionally paper-heavy and error-prone processes, they needed a secure and easy-to-use product experience that simplified and unified crime data collection and management. Haarthi Sadasivam, Technical Product Marketing Manager at Looker will join the conversation on best practices.

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Using a Non-Revenue North Star Metric

Speaker: Ashley Carroll, Partner, Social Capital

How to have a great product despite being under-monetized. If you're serious about making meaningful change to your product management decisions that translates to positive change to your shipped products, register today. How to navigate the transition to a non-revenue north-star metric.

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Building Product to Enhance Customer Support: The Key to Customer Retention in an E-commerce Business

Speaker: Bhavana Angadi, Senior Product Manager at Hopscotch (Demand & Growth) | Former Product Manager at Bigbasket

If you were to ask an E-commerce Product Manager what they would do to increase retention, they might suggest improving engagement by personalization/gamification, or by introducing loyalty programs. In this webinar, Bhavana Angadi, Senior Product Manager at Hopscotch, will teach you: The right ways to communicate with your customer.

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The Key to Agile Team Motivation

Speaker: Robert Webber, Author and Innovation Leader

Unfortunately, management in larger organizations maintained the directing and controlling management style that had been reinforced throughout their careers, violating the Agile tenet of trusted, self-motivated Agile teams. It’s presented by an experienced engineering leader for product development leaders.