Main takeaways: - Product Managers come from non-traditional backgrounds - leverage your background effectively - Treat your interviews like a final exam - key tactics for preparing for and acing the interview process - Grow your career by learning how to identify the highest impact and growth opportunities

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How to Grow Your Product
Management Career by former
Mixpanel PM

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3. COURSES
Product Management
Learn the skills you need to land a product manager job

4. COURSES
Coding for Managers
Build a website and gain the technical knowledge to lead software engineers

5. COURSES
Data Analytics for Managers
Learn the skills to understand web analytics, SQL and machine learning concepts

6. COURSES
Digital Marketing for Managers
Learn how to acquire more users and convert them into clients

7. COURSES
Blockchain for Managers
Learn how to trade cryptocurrencies and build products using the blockchain

8. Nihar Bhupalam
TONIGHT’S SPEAKER

9. Growing your PM Career
Nihar Bhupalam

10. A little about me...

16. Growing your PM Career
1. Breaking into Product Management
2. Growing your skills and your career
3. Becoming a PM Leader

17. Breaking into Product Management
How do I become a PM without any experience!?

18. Breaking into Product Management
Diverse backgrounds win in the long-term

19. Breaking into Product Management
Build a product and make it successful

20. Breaking into Product Management
Get as close to the PM team as you possibly can

21. Breaking into Product Management
Try and transition at your company

22. Breaking into Product Management
Go broad, don’t be afraid to try!

23. Breaking into Product Management
Practice, practice, practice for interviews

24. Breaking into Product Management

25. Growing your skills and career

26. Growing your skills and career
Find hard problems

27. Growing your skills and career
Find problems you are passionate about

28. Growing your skills and career
Find high growth opportunities

29. Growing your skills and career
Feel uncomfortable- always challenge yourself

30. Growing your skills and career
Introspect and understand your goals

31. Growing your skills and career
Understand the PM skillsets and focus on your weaknesses!

32. Growing your skills and career
PM Skillsets:
1. Leadership and Teamwork
2. Ownership
3. Bias to action
4. Analytical
5. Push the boundaries

33. Growing your skills and career
Find good mentors or managers and follow them

34. Growing into PM leadership

35. Growing into PM leadership
Become a kick-ass PM

36. Growing into PM leadership
Continue to grow your scope and responsibility

37. Growing into PM leadership
Eventually it will grow to the point your company will NEED
you to manage other PMs

38. Growing into PM leadership
Make sure you enjoy it

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