AMA: Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology, Milena Krasteva on Developing Your Product Management Career
October 6 @ 10:00AM PT
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Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology • 3y
There are some absolutes, which may be self-evident, but I'll still mention them for the record: disrespect, discrimination, excessive stress, unreasonable and unhealthy ...
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Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology • 3y
Many promotions happen because the person was already performing and showing up as being at the next level. Depending on the company, the Director role marks a clearer li...
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Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology • 3y
There is no substitute for being hands-on, although there is now also plenty of literature on PM-ing. Become more technical by learning from your engineering and data sci...
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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.
Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology • 3y
Actually, no differently than managing the 1001 questions and tasks shot at you in a large company :) A PM wears many hats. If any one area takes over disproportionately...
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Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology • 3y
1. Communication 2. Execution 3. Domain expertise I'd add stakeholder management as an important one but I can only do the top 3 :)
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Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology • 3y
In my experience, the learning curve happens in the current role, as a prerequisite to transitioning into the next. You have to be operating at the next level already and...
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Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology • 3y
One area of frustration is when everybody wants to play the role of product manager informally but very few have any formal training or experience in product management. ...
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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?
Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology • 3y
There is "not helping", or even not knowing that help is needed, and then there is actively blocking. I'm going to assume it is not the latter - actively blocking. There ...
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Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology • 3y
In general, the progression from any level to the next is a matter of demonstrating increasing levels of skill in product definition, technical or domain expertise, abili...
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