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Product Manager Interview: How to Get Hired

280 Group

Over the past several decades, I’ve interviewed hundreds and hired dozens of Product Managers at companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and burgeoning startups. Congratulations! You’re on the verge of one of the most exciting and fastest-growing careers today.

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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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How to kickstart your career in product management

Mind the Product

Discover how to break into product management without experience. Read more » The post How to kickstart your career in product management appeared first on Mind the Product. Learn practical steps to kickstart your career.

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Challenges of Product Management and How to Overcome Them

Alchemer Mobile

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. Product managers must live and breathe their product. My team is too small.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Understand how your work contributes to your company's strategy and learn to apply frameworks to ensure your features solve user problems that drive business impact. Grow your user empathy skills: Better understand users and the problem space they are working in through Journey Maps that are customized for Product Managers.

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

280 Group

‘Tis the season to be jolly, and what better way to celebrate than with a holiday spin in the world of product management! Day 2: Two product demos The second day brings demos so bright! The Product Manager shares insights with all their might. Happy holidays, product managers!

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How to break into product management

Mind the Product

In this extensive guide for aspiring product managers, Naimeesha Murthy, Product Leader and Founder of Products by Women covers everything from the common types of product specializations, skills and competencies needed to become and succeed as a product manager and communities and opportunities to tap into to begin your journey. [.]

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How to Reach Peak Performance With the Product Management Organizational Health Checklist

Speaker: Rina Vernovskaya, CEO, 280 Group; and Roger Snyder, VP of Marketing, 280 Group

The degree of maturity of your product management organization can directly drive your ability to satisfy customers and become more profitable. Some product management teams are really young and still learning the ropes. You will learn: The 3 major stages of maturity for a Product Management organization.

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Product Management Skills Benchmark Report 2021: How Do Your PM Skills Compare?

There are more than 41,000 Product Managers currently employed in the U.S. And while no one would disagree that skills development can help Product teams build better products faster, what skills are essential for Product Management success? How can Product Management leaders up-level their team’s skill set?

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Product Management & The 3 E’s: Experiments, Experiences, and Efficiencies

Speaker: Nicole Munson, Senior Product Manager at American Express

Every product manager labors over creating the perfect customer experience. Whether that’s an ineffective design, a confusingly placed button, or how difficult it is to log into your favorite site, mastering the obstacles to creating a frictionless product is a science. But how can we go about experimentation efficiently?

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

As more product teams adopt agile working styles, poor collaboration between Design and Product Management can harm a team’s ability to create consumer and business value. In this webinar they will teach you: 3 principles that allow Design and Product Management to work together more effectively.

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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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Building a Research Flywheel: A Helpful Guide for Product Managers & Their Teams

Speaker: Jessica Hall, Product Strategy & Design Leader and Co-Author of The Product Mindset

Every step of the product journey is informed by research: what works, what doesn’t, what customers want, what they need. But no one tool or method can create a thriving research practice for product managers. Attendees for this session will: Learn how Flywheels create momentum and value.

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Product Managers & UX Research: How Bridging the Experience Gap Can Propel Teams Forward

Speaker: Shakima Jackson-Martinez, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Kristin Zibell, Director of Research Products and Services

Join Shakima Jackson-Martinez, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at AnswerLab and Kristin Zibell, Director of Research Products and Services at AnswerLab, as they share their approach to Experience Gap research, including: How to determine the inclusivity of your product through Experience Gap research.

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Potholes in your Roadmap and How to Fill Them

Speaker: Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor

As a Product Manager, prioritizing work on your roadmap is an important part of your role. But products are built by people, and people are messy - unlike these frameworks. Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor, has identified potholes in your roadmap that are preventing you from planning as best as you can.