What Do Product Leaders Do? (and How Can I Become One?)

What: What Do Product Leaders Do? (and How Do I Become One?)
When: August 7th, 2019
Where: Oshman FJCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto
Hosted by: SVPMA


Career paths for product folks are murky: job responsibilities are unbounded, and most of us got our first product management jobs accidentally or through internal transfers.  Opportunities for advancement can be just as unclear.     In a very lively discussion, we broke down the problem a bit:

  • What do product leader do, as distinct from (individual contributor) product managers?
  • Ways to signal interest and demonstrate product leader skills
  • “Should I want that?”

What Do Product Leaders Do? (and How Can I Become One?) from Rich MironovPDF of the slides here