Aindra Misra

AMA: BILL Sr. Staff Product Manager - Platform Intelligence (Data & AI), Aindra Misra on Product Management Skills

February 4 @ 10:00AM PT
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Aindra Misra
BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X1y
Skills for a PM leader are primarily categorized into two large buckets:HardTechnical/domain knowledge skills based on the product you support - eg:It can be understandin...
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Aindra Misra
BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X1y
Engineering counterparts are not easy to influence as they come with some kind of bias that PMs are not there to help them but to add processes, hierarchy and more meetin...
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Aindra Misra
BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X1y
Identify and decide on what kind of PM role you want to get into - Growth PM, Platform PM, Domain specific PM..Understand the details and day to day of a PM role and get ...
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Aindra Misra
BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X1y
It's vice versa. Soft skills are something which you learn on the job. Hard skills can be easily acquired now with all the AI resources and training materials available o...
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Aindra Misra
BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X1y
I have noticed that PMs who do not have a solid proposal or data backed research, they try to push through their roadmap by backing it based on the buy in from upper mana...
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How do product management skills change as you get more senior in the role?
I'm a technical product manager now and I find that the execution piece of my previous roles is not as desired in my current role and I am trying to balance what I deem as PM fundamentals with what my new role expectations should be.
Aindra Misra
BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X1y
As you progress through the PM ladder, the TL:DR is that you will be less in the weeds with the day to day functioning of your squads but rather be working on long term p...
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Aindra Misra
BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X1y
As you are receiving critical feedback from your manager, ask them to follow the STAR format. Situation, Task, Action and Result. Make the manager accountable on what the...
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Aindra Misra
BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X1y
Ability to tell the story and connect the dots. As a PM, if you are not able to tell your story in a crisp and clear manner with the right amount of details, and tailored...
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