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Sanchit Juneja
Director-Product (Data Science & Machine Learning Platform), Booking.com
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Sanchit Juneja
Booking.com Director-Product (Data Science & Machine Learning Platform) • May 12
Unlike our parents' generation, it is highly unlikely we are going to have 40 years of continuous career in a single org. Also , unlike our parents' generation, skill-sets and job definitions are highly dynamic in the industry, hence being in a state of always learning is a neccesity. Being abre......Read More
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Sanchit Juneja
Booking.com Director-Product (Data Science & Machine Learning Platform) • May 12
Can't answer everything here, there is a nice video on this (of me :-) ) on youtube. To summarize in one line: know thy team, know thy stakeholders, know thy product Know thy team->know the members of your team, what their motivations and struggles are. As one of the best managers' I worked w......Read More
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Sanchit Juneja
Booking.com Director-Product (Data Science & Machine Learning Platform) • May 12
As you grow in the org this moves from your typical 1:1 structure to a more nuanced, influencing style which cannot be demarcated as such in an answer.. Suffice to say being a problem solver at hand, on a day to day basis is what being an PM is-> if one can manage that, everything else flows orga......Read More
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Sanchit Juneja
Booking.com Director-Product (Data Science & Machine Learning Platform) • May 12
Product Management, or to a large extent-most managerial roles, are dependent on influencing people with/without an official heirarchy. Specifically, to become a more influential PM, one must have high level of empathy and always seek to find common ground with your stakeholder--it doesn't matter......Read More
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Sanchit Juneja
Booking.com Director-Product (Data Science & Machine Learning Platform) • May 12
Even beyond C-suite, a PM should tailor his/her message to the audience. A typical mistake aspiring leaders do whilst communicating with the leadership is get too much into nitty gritties and details, whereas an CXO, by virtue of his position, needs the information and his action points as succin......Read More
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Sanchit Juneja
Booking.com Director-Product (Data Science & Machine Learning Platform) • May 12
Managing a team can be , simultaneously, the most rewarding and most frustrating aspect of your career, hence choose wisely For most, managing people becomes a forced transition in search for personal growth-> this is very dangerous, coz if you can't manage people (and people are idiosynchratic)......Read More
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Sanchit Juneja
Booking.com Director-Product (Data Science & Machine Learning Platform) • May 12
This answer is most often sought by PMs looking to jump to the next career level Trust is earned. So if you as an PM want to establish yourself as a go-to, reliable person for your manager/stakeholder. You'll have to consistently demonstrate the skills sought in you. Establishing trust can a......Read More
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Sanchit Juneja
Booking.com Director-Product (Data Science & Machine Learning Platform) • May 12
Carrying forward on the question above, it is imperative for you, as the mediator, to make the stakeholders seek common ground. Practically, this could involve a common session with. both of them exxplaining the pros and cons of their polar opinions. As always, it is you 3 against the problem and......Read More
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Director-Product (Data Science & Machine Learning Platform) at Booking.com
Product Management AMA Contributor
Knows About Influencing without Authority, Influencing the C-Suite