Turbocharge Your PM Career: Unleashing 5 Game-Changing Tactics
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In this captivating session at ProductCon, Nikhyl-Singhal, VP of Product at Meta and the founder of The Skip, will share invaluable insights on managing your career like a well-crafted product. Discover the power of long-term thinking, the art of career additive transitions, and the importance of taking ownership of your professional growth. With an emphasis on networking, mentorship, and building superpowers, this talk will equip you with practical strategies to propel your career forward while keeping a smile on your face. Prepare for a dynamic and entertaining session that will leave you inspired and ready to unleash your PM career's true potential!
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Turbocharge Your PM Career: Unleashing 5 Game-Changing Tactics
- 1. Turbocharge Your PM Career: Unleashing 5 Game-Changing Tactics by Meta VP of Product productschool.com
- 2. Accelerate your Product Management Career Certifications Product Manager Certification™ Product Leader Certification™ productschool.com/online
- 3. Team Training Level Up Your Team’s Product Management Skills productschool.com
- 4. Resources Free Product Management Resources Events Courses Podcasts Newsletters Communities eBooks and Reports productschool.com/resources
- 5. Five rules that will unlock your PM career
- 6. About Nikhyl Stanford BS/MS 1990-96 (CompSci) Co-founder & CEO ● Cast Iron Systems (acquired by IBM) ● SayNow (acquired by Google) Product Executive ● Google (Director for Hangouts, Photos) ● Credit Karma (Chief Product Officer) ● Meta (Facebook VP, Home & Groups) Career coaching & Mentorship ● 100+ leaders, mostly in PM ● Focus on diversity, future executives ● Skip Podcast and newsletter (http://skip.show)
- 7. Rule #1: Product manage your career like a product ◉ Avoid: short term optimizations when careers are decades long ◉ Products have a roadmap that connect to a vision Consider your “skip job”, then “stay vs. go” or “is this the right offer” ◉ Product phases = Product-Market fit, (Hyper)growth, Market leader Career phases = Act I: Learning, Act II: Leading, Act III: Giving ◉ Data, user research, customer feedback drives growth Feedback, coaching and self-awareness required to advance 7
- 8. Rule #2: Ensure each transition is career additive ◉ Promotions advance you at the company, stories advance in career ”What you build, what you overcame?” > “What was your level?” ◉ Growth rate > level of current responsibility Faster you learn new things and add impact, more effective you will be ◉ Culture & learning > company mission, product Avoid eliminating “boring” companies, products you don’t love or use 8
- 9. Rule #3: Whom you know will matter as much as what you know ◉ Phase I of career: what you know, Phase II: who you know Yet biggest regret on departure is person didn’t meet enough people ◉ Avoid: networking → too transactional, inauthentic Instead: build meaningful relationships with the best you encounter: Peers, leaders, up-and-comers, cross-functional teammates, customers ◉ Find 30 mins each week to offer help or gain perspective on a challenge (easy for extroverts, actionable for introverts) ◉ This generates luck, creates opportunities, wisdom, gives back 9
- 10. Rule #4: Find a strength area, then make it a superpower ◉ Areas of expertise: Product crafting, growth, domain, market, organization, team ◉ Elite careers require world-class skills in 1 or 2 of these areas ◉ No matter what, ensure you are not deficient in any of these areas ◉ Avoid just fixating on managing people (team skills) Market today requires ICs and builders more than managers 10
- 11. Rule #5: Bet on yourself ◉ Avoid: outsourcing your career to your manager or your company ◉ Managers focus on what they require and value, not your needs ◉ Promotion ladders inexact science, based on company needs ◉ Instead, focus on: ○ Superpowers you’ve built, Stories you can tell ○ Feedback you receive, Soft skills like empathy and self-awareness ○ Mentors who can help in specific development areas 11
- 12. Maximize your career Follow the Skip Podcast, newsletter, communities (http://skip.show) @nikhyl on Twitter and LinkedIn 12
- 13. Part-time Product Management Training Courses and Team Training productschool.com