Key takeaways:
- Transitioning from Analyst roles into Product
- Life and career outlook as a data/reporting product manager
- Learning to love the other side of data - qualitative data
- Product managing your own life to increase productivity and happiness
9. How To Find and
Succeed at Your
Job
Emmalyn Yee
Disclaimer: Views expressed are my own. They are in no way related to my current or former employers GoodRx,
Cornerstone OnDemand
10. Who am I?
Senior Data Product Manager @ Good Rx
Prior:
● Product Manager, Reporting @
Cornerstone OnDemand
● Sales Analyst @ Oakwood
● Strategy & Operations Analyst @
Deloitte Consulting
11. Agenda
1. How to find your job
2. Life and career outlook as a data product manager
3. How to succeed at your job
4. Product managing your own life
5. Q&A
12. How to find your job
● Internships
● Associate roles
● Leverage your expertise
● Networking
○ Referrals
○ LinkedIn
○ Alumni
○ Nepotism
13. Life
● What do clients really want
● Predicting needs
● Validating hypothesis
● Most efficient way to solve that need
● Specifying for engineers
15. Career Outlook
● Principal PM
● Senior PM
● PM
● Associate PM
● Chief Product Officer
● VP of PM
● Director of PM
● Lead PM
● Senior PM
Mastery of PM Craft
Leadership
16. Exits
● Founder
● Venture Capital
● Business School
● Engineer
● Instructor
>90% stay in product*
* don’t quote me on this
18. How to succeed at your job
● Greatest opportunities / challenges for company
● Improve your emotional intelligence (self, others)
● Ask for feedback
● Work smart, not hard
● Prioritization
19. How do I ensure a successful transition?
● 90 day plan
○ Listen & Learn
■ Unwritten rules
○ Plan
○ Deliver
○ Iterate
20. Qualitative Data
5 Why’s
Jobs to be done:
● What are they hiring the product to do?
● Current state?
● Desired state?
21.
22. Working with engineers
● Understand level of specificity
● Beginners mindset
● Focus on the problem
23. Product Managing your own life
Stop procrastinating
● Create safety
● Stop being a $#@&%@* to yourself. Positive self-talk
● Guilt-free play
28. SAY NO
● No, I need time to think about that
● No, that won’t enable me to do a good job
● No, that does not align to our values
● Yes, I’d love to, but I have prior commitments
32. www.productschool.com
Part-time Product Management, Coding, Data, Digital
Marketing and Blockchain courses in San Francisco, Silicon
Valley, New York, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Austin, Boston,
Boulder, Chicago, Denver, Orange County, Seattle, Bellevue,
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Editor's Notes
surprise!
Here to pay it forward, share my journey
Make a list of companies that have internships and associate roles and FOLLOW them. Ask if they are cyclical
Apply 1st 3 days. Resume optimizing
Campus recruits
Introvert vs extrovert
Senior data pm, lead data pm, growth pm
Different communication styles. Conflict resolution
Different communication styles. Conflict resolution
Quantitative data is important but Have to talk to users
Competitors vs job?
Have to talk to users
& designers
Procrastination is a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing
any task or decision
We procrastinate when we fear a threat to our sense of worth
Procrastination is not a character defect. It is an attempt at coping
Parkinson’s law Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.