How to start your career as a Product Manager

Let’s talk a bit more about starting a career as a product manager. Even if you don’t have any experience or background also for fresh graduates, it’s welcome to start a career as a product manager based on my experience.

The product manager will have some key relationships on the company, you will be sort of hub information and have a few key stakeholders that have the most critical relationship with you (include C-levels).

First, you will be working with the engineering team to carry out the vision of the team that you working with to deliver it, they are the critical relationship.

Second, you will be going to manage timeline and resources and making sure they are on schedule and coordinating with everyone else within the organization from the operational perspective. The marketing team is also a key relationship that developing product messaging.

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Third, the product design team will envision how your features and functionality working on the product. The product design team will be developing user interaction and collaborating with the engineering team to determining how that's gonna be executed on the product.

Fourth, the user research team helps you to get the data to support the decision that you are making as you go to the product development lifecycle.

Lastly, the data team supports you with analytics for product usage, downloads, and feedbacks.

As a product manager, day to day activities are driven by the software development lifecycle and also development methodology. I suppose the way you will interact with this team is going to agile.

Here 6 key responsibilities as a product manager:

1. Internally focused on developing requirements.
2. Work is focused on prioritizing backlog in agile methodology.
3. Manage and create product requirement documents (PRDs).
4. Personas are focused on feature development and product usage.
5. Manage day-to-day engineering, testing, and adjust the feature set.
6. Analytics focused on product usage, downloads, and updates to the product.