Reasons to Become a Product Manager

Become a product manager if you are fulfilled by:

Solving people’s problems 🙇‍♂️
Driving business growth 📈
Working closely with a variety of people 👨‍🎤
Developing a strategy 🤔
Getting shit done ✅
Leading a team 🤝
Communicating often and broadly 🗣
Making decisions 👍
Creating amazing experiences for people 👌
Being organized, detail-oriented, and prepared 😎

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The decisions PMs make are the ones that unblock their team so they can continue to build. They don’t need to make every decision, but they are responsible for ensuring a decision gets made — whether by them, their team, or their stakeholders. Product managers are the hedge against indecision...

BRANDON CHU

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Executing well is like captaining a tight, smooth-sailing ship. You need to make sure that everyone knows what they need to do and then does it, that the crew hums together in unison, [and] that you estimated the journey well enough to have packed ample supplies.

JULIE ZHUO

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The four most common paths into PM

Internal transition at a large company — Generally the easiest and quickest route.
Finding a junior PM role at a large company — Likely the most common route, but is limited to companies with APM or internship programs.
Joining a sta...

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The seven core skills to build

Taking any problem and being able to develop a strategy to resolve it.
A PM that is good at nothing else but execution is valuable to a team.
Communication. Everything you do as a product manager is done through writing, spea...

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Product intuition is a skill: it is the observation of human behavior, trained by data, and applied to software.