Main takeaways:
- How to continue to grow in your product management journey?
- How to think about customer experience when building products?
- How to work across teams and drive impactful results for your business?
6. Lessons from 20 Years in
Product Management
Presented by Amy Wang
7. Hewlett-Packard
1998-2000
UC Berkeley
Business Degree
1998
Adobe Systems
2007-2014
Yahoo! Inc.
2004-2007
Oracle
Product career
begins
2000-2002
UCLA Anderson
MBA
2002-2004
IBM Extreme Blue
Internship
2003
Shipwire / Ingram Micro
2014-present
My Career Journey
9. ●Build your PM foundations.
●Observe best practices from senior
product leaders.
●Know your product. Use your
product. Develop user empathy.
●Roll up your sleeves. Learn by doing.
●Don’t underestimate how important
your leadership is to the organization.
Key Learnings
12. ●Look good on paper
(but prove yourself in person)
●Do your homework.
●Synthesize learnings into product
execution.
●Prototype. Proof of concept using
real user profiles.
●Don’t let imposter syndrome hold
you back.
Key Learnings
14. ●Protect your brand and users by
building safety and compliance into
your product.
●Internal marketing is as critical as
external marketing.
●Learn how to navigate your
organization and build bridges.
Key Learnings
17. ●Be bold. #unstatusquo
●Build product partnerships.
●Know your competition.
●Write great user stories.
●Practice Agile that works for your
team and then put rigor into it.
●Build the core essence of new
products and then iterate.
●Be a do-er and not just a talker.
●Know your audience.
Key Learnings
19. ●Use product intuition + data to
drive decisions.
●Have a healthy sense of urgency.
●Fail fast. Learn. Iterate or move
on.
●Learn your business.
●Understand the CX end-to-end.
●Be thorough in your go-to-market.
●Learn to create narratives & slides.
●Connect people. Empower others.
Key Learnings