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Product Management Career

How do you avoid burnout in product management?

Louron serves as the Editor at Mind the Product, bringing 11+ years of experience in editorial roles across business and technology publications. For any editorial inquiries, you can connect with him on LinkedIn or email him at louron.pratt@pendo.io 

Louron Pratt

Frameworks

Susana Lopes: Embracing a dual-track career ladder in product

Anna studied English Literature and History at university. She is new to product management and is enjoying learning more about it.

Anna von Hagen

ProductTank

Career clinic for product managers by John Cutler

With a career founded in writing, I pivoted to Product, enjoying the challenges offered by managing diverse products while bringing clarity of communication to my work. I&#39;m passionate about seeing how fast the space is evolving, and always interested to be part of the conversation, whether as a contributor, or writer.

Jon Horvath

Product Discovery

From PO to CPO: How to drive your product career by Namrata Sarmah

Andres is a freelance writer and digital marketer with a background in engineering and a keen interest in the latest technology advancements. He currently helps tech companies and startups tell their stories by turning their complex ideas into easy to understand material. You can reach out to him on LinkedIn

Andres Phillips

Building the perfect product manager: A model for professional development by Greg Prickril

Hemanth Babu Shekar is a strategic product leader with 16 years of experience driving technological innovation across the tech industry. Currently serving at Rivian, he develops cutting-edge quality management systems that set new industry benchmarks. At Amazon, Hemanth launched machine learning products for transportation, optimizing complex logistics systems and solving critical attribution challenges. During his tenure at Meta, he developed AI-driven solutions for social commerce, addressing cross-platform tracking and user experience complexities. His career is distinguished by scaling breakthrough products across B2B and B2C sectors, consistently leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to solve intricate industry challenges.

Hemanth Babu Shekar

Community Post

Product Management

Should you specialize or stay versatile in product?

Namratha Vasu is a Product Manager with a Master’s degree in Engineering Management from Duke University. She thrives on joining startups at pivotal early stages to build and scale impactful products. She was the first Product Manager at SmartCue and the second at Clerkie, where she is reshaping the way financial systems work using cutting-edge AI. Previously, she honed her tech expertise as a Systems Engineer at HPE and expanded her product acumen at C2FO, a pre-IPO fintech company.

A dedicated community builder, Namratha has contributed to organizing ProductCon and remains an active participant in the NYC product ecosystem. In her free time, she co-hosts the NYC Cafe Project on YouTube, reviewing cafés and sharing her passion for discovery and storytelling.

Namratha Vasu

Three hacks I used to get promoted in my first product job within 6 months

Eira is an editor for Mind the Product. She's been a business journalist, editor, and copywriter for longer than she cares to think about.

Eira Hayward

How much are product managers getting paid in 2024?

Ipsita is currently a Product Lead at Shopify with over a decade of PM experience across FinTech and B2B SaaS. Ipsita’s variety of experiences across 4 countries gives her a unique perspective on workplace dynamics, relationships and how to be successful in different environments.

Ipsita Basu

Practical guide to move from IC to manager in product management

Chintan is a self taught product person who is passionate about story telling and writing. Before transitioning to product management, she used to test consumer, and enterprise security products at scale. She enjoys solving ambiguous problems in a highly technical environment.

Chintan B

Mistakes, learnings, and a product person’s relentless journey into leadership

What is fractional product management?

Networking in product management: Lessons from product experts

Diversity and Inclusion

Growing financial products and fostering diversity at Barclays with Zainab Kwaw-Swanzy

Shubhansha Agrawal: From engineering to product and behavioural economics

Vignesh Balagopalakrishnan is a Group Product Manager at Yelp. Over the past four years, he built some core parts of the Yelp Advertising system, and currently manages a team of PMs. In a past life, he was an engineer and a management consultant, and tries to bring skills from that experience to his time building products. He also writes at thisisunpacked.substack.com, and publishes a weekly in-depth analysis of a current tech topic in the form of a 10-minute read.

Viggy Balagopalakrishnan

Product Management Characteristics

Comparing a Systems Product Manager to a Feature Product Manager

Caroline is the founder of Product Karma, providing product coaching and advisory services to product managers and product leaders. She has more than ten years' experience in the tech industry in a variety of product and leadership roles. Caroline combines this experience with insights from psychology and neuroscience in her coaching practice, to enable product people to have BIG impact in their careers. You can reach out to her on Linkedin.