AMA: Splunk Director of Product Management, Subu Baskaran on Developing your Product Management Career

If you are an entry-level product manager or a first-time PM switching from a different function, executing a feature end-to-end is the best place to start. During execut...

Skills vary at different levels of product management, similar to other functions. In large organizations, product management usually has two tracks: 1) the IC track - PM...

If you are a new PM in an organization, my advice would be the following:Be curious - learn as much as possible about the customers, users, features, and the system. Talk...

There is no one silver bullet for a product management candidate. If I were to look for specific traits, definitely high up on the list would be how long a PM candidate e...

In short, have a long-term perspective on what you are building. As a senior PM, you are more inclined to ship faster. This might look great and temporarily get you the s...

The answer depends on the size of the company. But if I generalize, if you are a new grad or new to the function, then your first job would be Product Manager. Then, depe...

The PM-Director role can differ from company to company. Based on my experience, at the Director level, one becomes a people manager managing an area of the business. I s...

I have worked with PMs who do not have an engineering or CS background but have worked in other functions in a Tech company, such as Project Management, Marketing, Sales,...