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How To Land An AI Product Manager Job In 2025

How To Land An AI Product Manager Job In 2025

The reality hit me last week when I was helping a friend with 8 years of product management experience. Despite having a good career at well known companies, he wasn't getting past initial screenings for AI product roles.


You're Leaving Thousands On The Table By Not Negotiating Your Salary

You're Leaving Thousands On The Table By Not Negotiating Your Salary

For some, negotiating salary can feel like walking into the meeting of your life yet unprepared. Your palms sweat, your mind races, and you wonder, “What if they say no?”


Silence Is Killing Your Career, Here's How To Overcome It

Silence Is Killing Your Career, Here's How To Overcome It

Picture this: You’re sitting in the weekly stakeholder meeting, and your Director asks for input on the new feature prioritization. You have a strong opinion based on user research and competitive analysis you’ve been working on. But instead of speaking up, you stay quiet, thinking:


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Your Practical Guide to Successful Career Planning

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October 12, 2023
Your Practical Guide to Successful Career Planning

Checking how you are progressing through your career path once in a while is healthy way to visualize if you’re heading into the right direction and if you’re succeeding at your goals.


How to advance in the Product Management Career Path

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February 23, 2023
How to advance in the Product Management Career Path

Product management is an exciting and rewarding field, offering individuals the opportunity to help define the vision for a company’s product portfolio and transform an idea into a product. But how can someone move up in the product management career? Let’s walk through the career ladders available in the product management field and discuss the various…


From Code to Product Thinking: A Software Engineer's Guide to Becoming a Product Manager

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June 14, 2024
From Code to Product Thinking: A Software Engineer's Guide to Becoming a Product Manager

The transition from software engineer to product manager is like going from classical pianist to orchestra conductor. As a pianist, you focus deeply on your instrument, mastering the technical skills to produce beautiful music, similar to writing code and debugging as an engineer


How to Onboard Yourself to a New Position

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April 18, 2024
How to Onboard Yourself to a New Position

It's been a while since I've talked about joining a new position. My last post on the subject was based on the amazing guide "Cracking the PM Career" by Jackie Bavaro and Gayle Laakmann. But now that I reread this old post of mine, I realize that I can dig deeper into these tips to even better represent the chaos we face as PMs, and show you the methods…