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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...
400 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?

Ron Yang
Ron Yang

ASG VP of Product • 4mo

The most important skill for PMs to learn is how to leverage AI. The most desired product managers will be the ones who are agent managers. These are people who can creat...
173 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

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

What would be your advice or go to resources for a PM to build one critical thinking skills?

What would be your advice or go-to resources for a PM to build critical thinking skills?

Luke Summerfield
Luke Summerfield

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

Critical thinking is one of the most underrated PM skills. It’s what helps you separate noise from signal, ask the right questions, and make trade-offs with confidence. H...
904 Views

How to make a career change to PM?

Any tips, strategy, success stories?

Paresh Vakhariya
Paresh Vakhariya

Atlassian Director of Product Management (Confluence) | Formerly PayPal, eBay, Intel, Verizon • 3y

It can be challenging to break into PM space but here are a few tips: 1. Switch roles to PM within your current organization: this is the best path as you already have a ...
1,239 Views

How do you suggest transitioning into a different PM field? (E.g. if you're an internal PM, and you want to be a B2C PM, or growth PM, or B2B PM, how do you go about gaining the needed skills/making yourself more marketable?)

Mark Meredith
Mark Meredith

HashiCorp Director of Product Management • 9mo

Building and proving new skills is often most obvious and effective through passion (side) projects. Of course you can read and take myriad classes and watch videos, but ...
1,653 Views

How can I navigate a situation where I am frequently assigned project management tasks rather than product management responsibilities, and where there seems to be a lack of emphasis on product vision and impact-based product building?

Aaron Bloom
Aaron Bloom

Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 1y

It can be hard to tease apart the line between Product and Project Management - especially since the role of Product Management can vary greatly from team to team.  At th...
419 Views

How can a lead systems analyst in supply chain technologies can become a sr technical product manager for supply chain products ?

One who wants to transfer from traditional functional analyst role to technical product management for supply chain technologies?

Abhijit Limaye
Abhijit Limaye

Asesso Health Chief Product Officer • 1y

Focus on understanding the customer, more than the technology. Increase your customer engagement, and spend more time in understanding how the product will be used than h...
1,234 Views

Do you think it makes sense to grow PM competence within the organization or hire people from the broader market to succeed faster?

i.e. how much should we focus on and invest in the teammates who could switch/transfer in their roles vs pay for the new PMs coming from other organizations as new hires?

Julian Dunn
Julian Dunn

Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 3y

This is a tough question to answer because it is so situational. For example - I have seen organizations where PM is so immature that it is essentially a project manageme...
1,148 Views
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