AMA: Headspace Health Senior Director of Product Management, Vasudha Mithal on Developing Your Product Management Career
August 23 @ 10:00AM PT
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
No matter how many parents I saw before at work, I was nowhere close to realizing the true joys and challenges of working parents. A few things: As you are solving world...
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
My top-3 favorites purely from a product perspective: Google Photos, for very delightful and practical uses of AI Huckleberry, for attempting to solve the problems of ne...
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What's something that you didn't know it took to become a Director back when you were a senior product manager?
Something that you didn't know you would need to do that you only realized later.
Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
This is a mix of both seniority as well as working at a high-growth private company but clarifying R&Rs to ensure teams are built to maximize impact while minimizing ...
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
The most important thing to prioritizing a product roadmap is to deeply understand your company's strategy. How does your leadership think about 1) Goals for the year (re...
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
Love the proactive thinking and the desire to excel :) Not sure if the learning curve is any steeper but there are a few things that can support career growth: Master t...
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
Exemplary people leadership (ability to bring people along) Strong relationships across various functions (including non-R&D teams) - get done what's needed to solve...
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How do you manage the 1000 questions and tasks that are shot at you when you are a PM in an early stage startup?
I'm the first PM in a startup that used to be sales led. I'm trying to set up the proper discovery processes, prioritization tactics and strategy, but I find that extremely hard to do as I'm getting carried away in the day-to-day tasks around requests, issues reported and project management.
Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
In a startup, the R&R is faintly defined at its best. You naturally get pulled into 1000 different things - that is both fun and a challenge :) A few things that you ...
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How to make a career change to PM?
Any tips, strategy, success stories?
Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
Generally, where I’ve seen people best succeed in transitioning is when you change one dimension at a time. So, either change your company, role or industry. Trying to mo...
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
This varies so much from company to company but my general lens while moving from PM to SPM: SPMs have had at least one meaningful product launch in their career. SPMs a...
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What should you do if your Manager is not helping you grow and you see little growth opportunities? Should you stay at the job and try to learn as much as possible or should you definitely leave the company and look for a new opportunity?
How much time should you give a job and a manager to see if they are a fit in your growth and career?
Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
What do you value in your life right now? If it is career growth and you are not getting that, needless to say, it is time for a change. If you want to maximize your imp...
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
A few things: A very deep understanding of the problems they are looking to solve. This gets reflected in how they speak about past experiences (why did you choose to wo...
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
For very role-specific hiring: "Knowing about the role, how does your experience and skillset fit the needs?" The best answer: Reflects the candidate really understands ...
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
The first question I'd ask is - what element of being a CPO/GM are you looking to NOT do? Second question - What do you like about being a PM that you want to bring along...
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Care Solace Chief Product Officer | Formerly Headspace, Ginger, LinkedIn • 3y
You need to assess this based on the things that you care about. I have my few Ps: People: Do I love this team? Do I want to be at the table (in a zoom room?) with this ...
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