AMA: Carta Director of Product Management, Anton Kravchenko on Developing Your Product Management Career

Leveling up to Dr level meant being a point of contact for many people at the company, which meant more inquiries from sales, customers, leadership, and other product tea...

Typically, promotions are the result of an individual's performance and business needs. In other words, it's hard to make a case for becoming a Director if your area can ...

To make this decision, I think of opportunity, ambitions, passion, and time: Opportunity - obviously there is a matter of compensation, but there is also an opportunity ...

There are different ways you can think about it, but I like to think about PMs as those that build new products (0-->1) and PMs that come in to manage an existing prod...

There are different paths that each product manager takes, but the common ones I've seen are: 1. Joining a tech company as an Associate PM or an intern straight from coll...

Let me break it down by covering 3 different levels of PMs: Associate PM -- the bar here is that you have great critical thinking, clear communication, energy, and a mix...

Different folks would enjoy different things e.g. if you are an introvert -- the IC track might be more suitable as you will be spending a good chunk of your time creatin...

It's less about metrics and more about the outcomes you are creating for the business. For example, you might bring 10,000 new users or improve a UX for a specific featur...

If you enjoy Product, a typical path is either to become a people manager, remain IC, or quit to start your own thing. In big companies like Salesforce, there are plenty ...

There are different paths that each product manager takes, but the common ones I've seen are: 1. Joining a tech company as an Associate PM or an intern straight from coll...

To make the decision, I think of opportunity, ambitions, passion, and time: Opportunity - obviously there is a matter of compensation, but there is also an opportunity f...

My favorite interview question was asked by a hiring manager ~8 years ago when I interviewed for an Associate PM position at MuleSoft. I was asked the following: "Imagine...

My biggest frustration is that I let people down. Currently, I work with teams of 50+ people, which means I need to be available all the time. The more senior as a PM you...