#mentorship to grow in your Product Management career
Working in a favorable environment, with an inspiring boss, and on a challenging product, are probably the main ingredients to progress in your product management career.
If you cannot count on one or more of the 3 (actually, even if you can), a mentor can go a long way in helping you unlock your full potential by:
- Challenging your perspectives on your product and stretching you out of your comfort zone
- Providing the perspective of a more senior person, usually one or two career steps ahead of you
- Providing you with an external point of view on the way you manage your product, asking some “tough or naif questions”
- Bringing in the experience of a different industry, product, or culture.
I am receiving several requests to act as a mentor, and I am always honored to help. Needless to say, I do this as a pro-bono activity and my biggest ROI is what I learn in return from these interactions.
#productmanagement #productcareer #mentorship
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My name is Salva, I am a product exec and Senior Partner at Reasonable Product, a boutique Product Advisory Firm.
I write about product pricing, e-commerce/marketplaces, subscription models, and modern product organizations. I mainly engage and work in tech products, including SaaS, Marketplaces, and IoT (Hardware + Software).
My superpower is to move between ambiguity (as in creativity, innovation, opportunity, and ‘thinking out of the box’) and structure (as in ‘getting things done’ and getting real impact).
I am firmly convinced that you can help others only if you have lived the same challenges: I have been lucky enough to practice product leadership in companies of different sizes and with different product maturity. Doing product right is hard: I felt the pain myself and developed my methods to get to efficient product teams that produce meaningful work.