Ever wondered how to navigate through the labyrinth of career moves in product management? This episode promises to be your definitive guide. Our guest, Cassidy Fein, shares her wealth of experience, gained from Pendo, Vimeo, and Echo 360. Listen in as she unveils how to identify the right roles and companies and strategize your career moves. We also discuss the current market pulse and how to connect with the right people in the right place.It's not just about the right career path, but also about finding roles that ignite your passion and resonate with your values. Cassidy offers valuable insight into understanding an organization's product, business model, and revenue streams, and how these impact your day-to-day role. Shifting gears to long-term career planning, we emphasize the importance of being flexible in handling life's unpredictable turns. Weighing up the pros and cons of specialization versus generalization, we also arm you with strategies for managing people effectively. So, if you're keen to steer your product management career towards long-term success, this episode is a must-listen!

What if you could unlock secrets to managing product scale-ups without falling into common pitfalls or inviting burnout? This episode, we bring you just that, with our expert guest, Marissa Fong. With a decade of experience under her belt, Marissa shares her unique insights from her journey across various industries. Listen in as we discuss strategies, processes, and skills necessary for successful scale-ups, and navigate the complex world of product management.Learn more at ProductVoices.com.

Are you striking the right balance between customer focus and business acuity in your product management career? Join us as we welcome Frank Tisellano, a B2B product leader with experience at Google, Kaseya, and others. Frank shares his journey and realization of the importance of this balance. Discover how understanding the impact a product has on a company's business is key for success and prioritization, and learn how to become more commercially focused product people.We also discuss common mistakes in product management, the need for developing a better understanding of the business side of the work, and the potential impact of product managers entering the field with limited or no business experience. Listen in as we explore building a well-rounded skillset and examine how product managers can use their business acumen to drive success in their products. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your awareness and understanding of the business side of product management!Learn more from Frank at ft.io. And find more on the episode at ProductVoices.com.

Aakash Gupta, the Product Growth guy and VP Product at Apollo, joins to discuss how to build a flywheel.We discuss:What is a flywheel and what does it mean? What are some prerequisites that a business needs to have in place in order to succeed in building a flywheel?The biggest mistakes that are made when trying to build a flywheel across your organization. And much more!Learn more at ProductVoices.com and subscribe to the podcast on your favorite platform. Also, be sure to subscribe to Aakash's newsletter!

Victoria Ku, director of product at Highnote, joins the podcast to discuss finding your voice as a product manager. Such an important and fun conversation. We discuss...How to find your voice as a product manager. How to best use that voice in the workplaceHow leaders can best help their team find their voice. What impact will payments have on the world in the future?  (a bonus discussion based on Victoria's expertise)Learn more at ProductVoices.com.

Kareem Mayan, co-founder of Savio, joins this episode to discuss how great product teams leverage customer and product feedback for better products, and specifically how feedback can help us innovate on and optimize existing products.We discuss:What’s the difference between innovation and invention? What are the biggest mistakes product teams are making when it comes to leveraging feedback? Do product teams really have the data they need? Best practices for how to use feedback most effectively. And moreMore at ProductVoices.com

Janna Bastow, CEO of ProdPad, joins this episode to discuss how product teams can build and use successful roadmaps. She also shares some insights on what makes great product managers and how to stand out when trying to move into product management from other roles.Highlights:On roadmaps...What is a roadmap? What are the prerequisites for a roadmap? (hint: you can’t have a really successful roadmap without having a vision)A roadmap is a prototype of your strategy (wow! what a great way to think about it)How do teams use a roadmap? How often do you update your roadmap? And some general advice for current and aspiring product managers:Core skills that a great product manager needsHow to stand out from the crowd when trying to move into product managementLearn more at ProductVoices.com.

In this episode, Dave Dame, director of product accessibility at Microsoft joins to discuss how great teams and organizations use principles to best build products that are inclusive and accessible to users of all ability levels.Highlights of the discussion:"It’s not a disability that holds me back, it is the environment.”Everyone will be disabled at some point, even temporarily. Products that were built to be accessible for one group often resonate with others, For example, closed captioning and audiobooks.Characteristics of high-performing teams that are building more accessible, inclusive products.Dave's advice on creating products that will make the world better than we found it.Learn more at ProductVoices.com

Great product managers are fanatical about prioritizing the things that will make the biggest impact on their product.In this episode we discuss some of the activities that product managers should not be leading and some ways that product managers can be fanatically prioritize their time.We discuss:What a product manager is NOTWhy product managers get pulled into some of these activities Creating your Contentment MixThe VITAL time management toolLearn more at ProductVoices.com

Bria King, a product coach and product leader with experience in social good, networking, online marketing, and hospitality industries discusses a people-first approach to product management.We discuss:What is people-first product managementWhat are the benefits of people-first PMHow leaders and teams can move toward a more people-first culture