Fake it until you ship it 🚀 | How to get into Product Management? (Online)

Supported by Product Academy we are delighted to invite you for the third event of a series for fresh Product Managers: Fake it until you ship it 🚀

Given the summer season is in full bloom, and we are all very happy about it, we have decided to organize this session as an online event so that everyone can join from wherever they want to.

Are you wondering how to twist your career to become a Product Manager? If the answer is YES, you should join our event, where we will hear inspiring stories from people who made this move and are very successful product professionals.

Staci, Mirza & Stefan are great and inspiring product professionals, but their careers did not start in business schools. They will share the story of their journey which, for sure, is very inspiring and motivating! We will also have an opportunity to dig deeper, and ask questions, so be prepared! 💬 Looking forward to meeting you there!

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🎙Speakers🎙

• Staci Chen - Senior Product Management Consultant @ Product People
  Staci has 13+ years of leadership experience & 4+ years in dynamic tech industries. She is a master in driving multiple initiatives simultaneously, aligning cross-functional teams, and streamlining operational processes.
  If you think Staci's career has started in the tech industry, you are wrong, as she holds a degree in Hospitality Administration from Cornell University. What an impressive ride!
• Mirza Beširović - Product Leader and Mentor, Director of Product Management @ Dixa
  Mirza is a product leader and mentor with 11 years of experience in hypergrowth tech, including 2 German unicorns and a Danish scaleup. They are passionate about training the next generation of product leaders & diversity and inclusion. Mirza is also a creator of a Newsletter that's fully packed with great product knowledge. If you don't know it yet, visit https://youaretheproduct.io/ to learn more. Before rocking in Product Management, Mirza was a poetry translator - yes, you read it right ;-)
• Stefan Dorfling - Senior Product Management Consultant @ Product People
  Stefan is a passionate Product Manager with 5+ years in the service industry. He enjoys challenges and finding solutions to complex business problems. What motivates him is building products with a greater impact and shared value. He will tell us about his journey from being a Lawyer to a Product Manager. Sounds great, right?!

🪄Organisers🪄

• Chiedza Muguti - Chief Platform Officer @ Alteos
• Mafalda Prisco - Product Manager @ Personio
• Nicolai Brunner - Product Manager @ Squake
• Joanna Wilczyńska Andrade - Product Owner @ momox fashion

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🙋🏻‍♀️ About us: Fake it until you ship it! 🙋🏻‍♀️

Hi! Here Chiedza, Maffi, Nico, and Jo 👋🏿. We are a group of Product peeps who met through a Product Academy course we had earlier this year. Right after the course, we decided we wanted to stick together and create some relatable and inspiring series of events for Product Managers in Berlin. Why? Because we all struggle(d) in our early careers in one way or the other! From imposter syndrome, daily frustrations, meeting panic, negotiations, politics, bad managers, deadlines, and googling tech terms.. we had to fake it until we shipped it a long while.

But it doesn't have to be (always) like this! Join our events to figure out some of these challenges, and to feel less like we are faking it and more like we are shipping it 🚀

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⏰ Agenda ⏰

7:00 PM | Introduction to Fake it until you ship it 🚀 & to the topic of our session
7:10 PM | Inspiring talks by our speakers 📢

• Staci’s journey (10min)
• Mirza’s journey (10min)
• Stefan’s journey (10min)

7:40 PM | Big Q&A, ask anything on your mind ❓
8:00 PM | End 🪄