Main Takeaways: - What does distinguish junior product managers from more senior ones - What is the set soft and hard skills required at each level of career path - How to choose your next role in a way that helps your development

1. How to Scale Your PM Career
by fmr Zalando Product Leader
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5. How to scale your PM career
Maria Petrova
Head of Product @ Supermetrics
Former Principal PM @Zalando
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-a-petrova/

6. First things first,
let’s get rid of the elephant in the room...

7. Who PMs really
are?
what is their role in the product
development process?

8. CEO of product?
Direct authority

9. Do you want to command or to enable?

10. The one who says
‘’no”?

11. If you always start with “no”
people stop bringing the input to you
Eventually, they stop listening to you

12. Catalyst
an agent that provokes or speeds
significant change or action

13. How do you progress with your career if you job is
provoke or speed change?

14. Let’s define what sort of reaction you are in

15. Scale + Complexity
Ambiguity
Career path

16. Ambiguity
We start with short feedback loop and well defined
problems
We evolve into vaguely defined problems with different
solutions

17. Scale and complexity
We start with features for 1 persona with small impact
We evolve into working on multi feature initiative and
long-term impact

18. Lego blocks
junior
mid-level
principal

19. What skills do you need
Product management methods and tools
Analytics
Collaborative leadership
Commercial leadership
Coaching
Junior PM CPO

20. How to choose your new gig?
Start simple Work on different things Build your own game

21. Good luck and be prepared

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