43: How Do You Define a PM’s Career Success?

In this episode of the How to Succeed in Product Management Podcast, marketing professor Jeff Shulman and The Product Management Center advisory board members Red Russak and Soumeya Benghanem welcome Tom Leung (Goggle, Fireside Product Management Podcast) to talk about what makes a successful PM. Is it the number of products that went live? Is it the position you currently hold in the company? Is the head count of other PMs under your team? There are several ways to measure the success of Product Managers. What matters most of the time is the skills that you have when take on the role and what will you bring to help scale up the business.

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What to Listen For:

• 00:00 Intro
• 08:43 What would success look like for a PM?
• 12:41 Metrics that matter to your own career success
• 14:26 PMs don’t have a common starting point but have common qualities
• 17:29 In order to be considered for the PM role…
• 23:14 Should you be measured by how many products you push live?
• 32:47 When its the business that makes the decisions
• 38:35 Skills to become a good PM
• 44:26 Misaligned with your end counterpart
• 50:08 PM is an apprenticeship discipline