Product School Seattle

 
 
 

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Being a Product Manager requires structured and organized thinking. Frameworks and toolkits are a handy and effective way to approach problems. Product Managers learn about many and develop their own throughout their product careers and share some of those with you today.

Main takeaways:
While there are many kinds of Product Managers, in recent years the tech industry has increasingly recognized the importance of the Platform Product domain. Becoming a platform PM demands a specialized skill set — but not the hard technical skills you might expect. In this talk, I'll cover the crucial importance of platforms to businesses and of PMs to platforms, and illustrate how platform PMs approach opportunities by walking through a case study. You'll learn what's different about being a platform PM, and how to ask whether this career path is right for you.

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Meet the Speaker: Madeleine Boucher

Madeleine is a Senior Product Manager currently working at Spotify. She joined the company in 2019 when she was hired as a PM to work on their multi-system data platform that powers insights for artists.

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Product School is the global leader in Product Management training with a community of over one million product professionals. Our certifications are the most industry-recognized credentials by employers hiring product managers. All of our instructors are senior-level Product Managers working at top Silicon Valley companies including Google, Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb, PayPal, Uber, and Amazon.

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Being a Product Manager requires structured and organized thinking. Frameworks and toolkits are a handy and effective way to approach problems. Product Managers learn about many and develop their own throughout their product careers and share some of those with you today.

Main takeaways:

• What do Product Managers do? A brief glimpse into the life of a Product Manager
• Do I need to be a Computer Science Major? Breaking some myths around what background do you need to have to be a Product Manager
• Getting an interview call - Breaking down into bite-sized steps to make the whole journey simpler
• Preparing for the Interviews - Some tips and resources that can help you prepare for the interview
• Picking the right product teams to join - Now that you have offers, which one to pick?

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Meet the Speaker: Pavneet Ahluwalia

Pavneet works as a Product Lead at Microsoft. He focuses on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Scale and Performance. Before becoming a Product Lead, he was a Senior Product Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for more than two years.

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Product School is the global leader in Product Management training with a community of over one million product professionals. Our certifications are the most industry-recognized credentials by employers hiring product managers. All of our instructors are senior-level Product Managers working at top Silicon Valley companies including Google, Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb, PayPal, Uber, and Amazon.

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How great PMs build great products by capturing diverse perspectives and approaching each day like it's your first.

Main Takeaways:

• Beyond the triad: why you need to connect outside the triad for diverse opinions.
• How to make anyone a PM (even your mom!)
• The day one PM: the benefits of approaching every challenge like it's your first day at work

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Meet the Speaker: Leonard Kongshavn

Leonard is passionate about building the best product on the market. Currently, he is a Product Lead of Audiences and Privacy at Google.

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Product School is the global leader in Product Management training with a community of over one million product professionals. Our certifications are the most industry-recognized credentials by employers hiring product managers. All of our instructors are senior-level Product Managers working at top Silicon Valley companies including Google, Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb, PayPal, Uber, and Amazon.

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This will be an informal chat about what it's like for companies to benefit from Behavioral Analytics by using a free tool like Microsoft Clarity. It'll cover the different ways they can be implemented within an organization and we'll also touch on some of the misconceptions of strategizing using data.

Main takeaways:

• What is Behavioral Analytics and why it offers you a fuller vision of your product
• Use cases and tips/tricks on how to leverage Behavioral Analytics throughout your workstream
• Microsoft Clarity's free functionality and features to get you started

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Meet the Speaker: Sharon Peng

Sharon is a Product Manager at Microsoft, where she has been working for more than three years. She operates in Performance at Bing and Clarity for Microsoft Shopping and Commerce.

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Product School is the global leader in Product Management training with a community of over one million product professionals. Our certifications are the most industry-recognized credentials by employers hiring product managers. All of our instructors are senior-level Product Managers working at top Silicon Valley companies including Google, Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb, PayPal, Uber, and Amazon.

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