How Did/Do You Get into "Product"
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With a growing number of companies in Wellington looking for people to fill a range of product roles, many are asking themselves how to get into this expanding area.
What are these product roles anyway? Do you need to be technical? A domain expert on day one? What sort of experience do you need? Qualifications?
With over 600 members we have people already in product, those dipping their toes in and others just curious and wanting to find out more. We've hand picked a few of our members with varied backgrounds to tell their stories, but want to open the following questions to all.
How did you get into product?
What would you recommend to someone wanting to start their product career?
What makes a great product person?
Inspired by a recent, informal poll, at Lead the Product in Sydney, it seems that most (over a third) enter product management from a mysterious "Other" category.
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Let's dig into this more, do our own survey and raise a glass to celebrate the end of 2017!