Member-only story
One year of product management: the growth and the lessons
A very personal view
Product Management careers seem to be becoming increasingly attractive to many in tech and at the same time raising a lot of questions about how the role is or should be defined in different organizations, how to become a product manager, or how to train and/or recruit product managers.
The role itself isn’t new, but its versatility and cross-disciplinary state make it possible for people from various backgrounds to start a career in product management and excel at it in the heart of tech companies worldwide, be it from engineering, design or economics backgrounds and so on.
That aside, in some companies product managers can make or break things, while some other companies don’t have product managers at all and do well, and there are also companies that think their organization will derive more value from specialised product managers.
That’s a lot of diversity, and while I lack the experience or the wisdom to wanna make vast generalizations about product management (or about anything in general), I do think it could be helpful to share a bit about my experience in the past year, being an AI product manager at one of Malaysia’s top technology startups, Supahands, the lessons, how I managed to start a career in product management right…
