Mark Meredith

AMA: HashiCorp Director of Product Management, Mark Meredith on Product Management Career Path

September 23 @ 10:00AM PT
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Mark Meredith
HashiCorp Director of Product Management7mo
In tech companies, having a background as an architect can be extremely valuable. The ability to speak confidently to the technical aspects of your products goes a long w...
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Mark Meredith
HashiCorp Director of Product Management7mo
Find a way to get hands on with the product or domain of the product that you'd like to enter. In software PM, of course that's AI right now, but you could also lean into...
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Mark Meredith
HashiCorp Director of Product Management7mo
Building and proving new skills is often most obvious and effective through passion (side) projects. Of course you can read and take myriad classes and watch videos, but ...
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Mark Meredith
HashiCorp Director of Product Management7mo
I've worked in IBM for a decade now, so naturally I've been focused on b2b products almost exclusively. The most pervasive misconception I've seen is that b2b products ar...
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How to make a career change to PM?
Any tips, strategy, success stories?
Mark Meredith
HashiCorp Director of Product Management7mo
My background was in mechanical engineering, and I worked briefly as an engineer before making the switch over to PM. There are a few different types of skills that trans...
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Mark Meredith
HashiCorp Director of Product Management7mo
Yes, of course. Be humble, be curious, and be bold in your request. Simply reach out on LinkedIn and make it clear what you're after - e.g. 30 mins once per quarter for a...
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