What are the most important soft and hard skills Product Managers can build to become successful in their field going forward?

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Clara Lee

PayPal VP, Product | Formerly Apple, Automattic, Deloitte • 3y

Having worked in Product in completely opposite contexts, the most valuable soft and hard skills depend on several factors, including product maturity, organizational maturity, availability of supporting functions (e.g., Product Operations, Product Analysts, etc.), and company cultural norms. At WooCommerce/Automattic, the expectations I set for PMs are: Drive the creation and execution of product strategy for your focus area. Lead multi-disciplinary teams through the development process. Culti ...Read More

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Melissa Ushakov

GitLab Group Manager, Product Management • 3y

Soft skill: Great product managers can seamlessly adjust their communication to match their audience. As a product manager, you'll speak with people in different roles and varying levels of expertise in your subject area. It is essential that you can communicate your ideas and exchange information with everyone! I really love the perspective shared by Camilla Boyer in a recent talk at GitLab about communicating with emotional intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pZoNORrDjU. Product mana ...Read More

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Aindra Misra

BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X • 8mo

Soft skills: Stakeholder expectations - Managing expectations for all your stakeholders - upper management, customers, engineering teams, partner teams who are helping you build the solution. Sync and async communications - Your comms should be crisp, just enough details, and outcome driven. This includes slack/teams/email + while driving meetings (liking setting context and agenda) Hard skills: Depends on what type of PM role you are in - the key is that you should understand the workflows of y ...Read More

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Sailaja Kalle

Gainsight Director, Product Management • 2y

Apart from being a good product managers, natural propensity to build epic stuff, passion for impact, data-driven, ability to execute , great collaborator and communicator along with wide combination of skills - from software engineering, product development to monetization and growth is something that helps product managers be successful in their field.

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