Your Product Manager Career by PlayStation Sr PM, Fabio Mattiussi
I`m a Product Manager? now what?
Find A job
Shotgun Approach (Max Volume)
List all job boards (Linkedin, Indeed...)
Create profiles on all of them
Subscribe to their notifications
Define a daily routine to
review all new job posts
apply to at least 10-30 positions per day
write to your contacts to see if there are openings where they work
Find YOUR job
Sniper Approach (Best Fit)
Consider the following frameworks to aim at what are the companies and roles you really want to work with.
Size
Startup
1-2 Product Managers
Visibility
Responsibility
Workload
Overlapping Skills
Time to Market
Culture
Development Tools
Growth Opportunity
Big Corp
100s of Product Managers
Scope
Industry
Focused
Impact on Product
Control on Product Choices
Accomplishment/Belonging
Product Variety
Industry Diversity
Consultant
Dynamic
User
Internal
Close to End User
Data Availability
Qualitative Inputs
Quantitative Research
Market Visibility
Competitor Analysis
External
Farther from End User
Biz.Model
B2B
Fewer Business Clients
Requirements Gathering
Qualitative User Feedback
Prioritization Autonomy
Goals & KPIs Definition
Market Segmentation
B2C
Many End Users
This adds up to over 20 dimensional decision space.
Looking at each parameter, how it interacts with all the others, can make it difficult to make a real decision.
How do I navigate this to create an actionable.
Intuitive
Gut Feeling
Write down your top 2 choices. Explore them emotionally. Share your feelings with someone close.
Analytical
Data Driven
Create a Weighted. Decisional Matrix.
Map all the parameters we explored so far and score them
Order Job/Roles by Fit Score and Take the First.
Summarizing: Takeaways
Do Your Own Research
Before applying
During the Interview Process
Connect with current employees
Be Clear on What You Want
List all parameters
Size
Scope
User
Biz. Model
Prioritize Them
Score All Options
Take Your Time to Decide
Consider all final options
Play scenarios
Fabio Mattiussi, PlayStation Sr PM