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Would you advise non-technical PM’s joining a coding bootcamp?

I’m currently looking for new opportunities and I find that when it comes to the final stages of the recruiting process, PMs with more technical skills get the role.

Liron Deutsch
Liron Deutsch

Product Management Leader • 1mo

TLDR: Probably not. The gap most non-technical PMs need to close is not about writing code. It is about understanding how systems work, and that is a different thing enti...
391 Views

Do you think a PM should aim to manage products in the same industry and gain expertise in a certain niche throughout their career? For example, stick to Fintech or Cyber…? Do you think it’s a downside when a PM’s experience is diverse (for examples, switched from B2B to B2C and vice versa)

Liron Deutsch
Liron Deutsch

Product Management Leader • 1mo

TLDR: There is no single right path. Depth has value, but so does range. What matters most is staying energised, continuing to learn, and understanding where you do your ...
389 Views

I’ve heard that the jump from Sr. PM to the “next level” (e.g Principal or Group PM) often comes with a steep learning curve. Is that true, and how would one prepare to solidify the right foundation to ease the transition preemptively?

Liron Deutsch
Liron Deutsch

Product Management Leader • 1mo

From personal experience, the Senior to Principal or Group PM transition is one of the hardest in this career. Not only because the craft gets harder, but because the rul...
401 Views

AI is commoditizing 'hard' PM tasks like PRDs and data analysis. In your view, what new skills are essential to remain a relevant leader today, and how should we pivot our career strategy to stay ahead of this rapid domain transformation?

Manjeet Singh
Manjeet Singh

Salesforce Senior Director of Product Management • 5mo

Yes, AI is eating the "execution layer" of product management: writing PRDs, crunching data, building dashboards, even synthesizing customer feedback. But here's what it'...
1,256 Views

How would AI Agents+Humans team be managed in future? As AI agents become integrated into teams alongside humans, how do you envision team structures, workflows, and management practices evolving? Specifically, how should leaders think about roles, accountability, and collaboration in hybrid human–AI teams to ensure effectiveness and alignment?

Vik Chaudhary
Vik Chaudhary

The Biological Computing Company VP Products and Strategic Partnerships • 3mo

In the workplace of the future, the purpose of Humans should be to enable AI Agents to operate at full speed without causing harm (to the product, to customers, to financ...
366 Views

What are the required hard skills for a product manager?

Also is it a plus for a product manager to know how to read code?

Katherine Man
Katherine Man

HubSpot Group Product Manager, CRM Platform • 3mo

Core hard skills are data fluency, experimentation, and technical literacy. You should be able to define metrics, run analyses, design experiments, and interpret results....
427 Views

As someone thinking of transitioning from marketing to product management, what are some hard skills you'd recommend learning ahead of applying/interviewing? (Bachelor's degree was in business/communication)

Mark Meredith
Mark Meredith

HashiCorp Director of Product Management • 9mo

Find a way to get hands on with the product or domain of the product that you'd like to enter. In software PM, of course that's AI right now, but you could also lean into...
698 Views

What's the career path for a 5yr experienced Product Manager to become a leader? What are the steps to prepare oneself for the next step, i.e., becoming a Sr./Director/VP of Product or CEO?

I have worked as Product Manager for the last 5 years collaborating closely with Eng, Design, and Business in both startup and corporate environments.

Luke Summerfield
Luke Summerfield

HubSpot Director of Product Strategy | Marketing Hub, Content Hub • 9mo

This is a great moment in your career, 5 years in, you’ve built a solid PM toolkit, and now it’s about scale: scaling your impact, your scope, and eventually, your leader...
480 Views

How to make a career change to PM?

Any tips, strategy, success stories?

Luke Summerfield
Luke Summerfield

HubSpot Director of Product Strategy | Marketing Hub, Content Hub • 9mo

Lots of folks want to break into PM but don’t know where to start. The good news: PM isn’t about a single background; it’s about building a toolkit across customer insigh...
1,556 Views
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