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💥 Mark your calendars - for our first in-person community meetup!

Friday Nov 8th, between 4:30 to 7 pm PST - Join us for our Monthly ‘Product-with-Pri’ in-person Community Meetup (South Bay)! 😅 

Capacity will be limited (~30 people). So don’t wait - SIGN UP 👉️ here!

Format: We will have a roundtable discussion/Q&A on a specific PM-relevant topic (~20-30 minutes), with open networking afterwards.

We’ve got a nice space reserved, and we will have coffee/tea plus some fun swag, contests and giveaways :-)

My goal/vision - building real-life connections within the PM community, in a safe, respectful AND fun environment! Also - learning/growing together, and having a go-to-group for PM career questions and dilemmas 😁 

🔥 Interested in joining us? 

Take this quick poll below to share which topic you would like us to focus on for our FIRST roundtable/community Q&A discussion!

Product Management News & Industry Trends

• PM Conferences: There are a few fall conferences coming up:

  • I’m heading to ProductCon, Product School’s conference in SF tomorrow Oct 16th - so in case you plan to be there, come say hi! 👋 

  • Lenny’s Summit is coming up Oct 24th - next Thursday - excited to host a roundtable with senior Product Leaders - on the topic of Career Growth and Leadership! If you plan to be there, I’d love to meet you, and if you don’t - look into it. They might still need volunteers or round table leaders - so apply to join!

  • And if you feel like you want to attend more conferences next year - now’s the time to start planning!

• Growing PM areas: I see a growing demand for Cybersecurity PMs and Data PMs - so make sure to learn more about these areas, and see if it makes sense for you to target these kinds of roles!

Who’s hiring in my network (HM Linkedin Posts!)

I know that looking for a job is hard! So here are specific links to hiring manager or recruiter posts from people in my network, that give you an insider’s edge while applying..

• Amazon is hiring a Sr Product Manager and a Sr Technical PM role in New York in the Advertising space - here is the hiring manager’s post.

• Amber Alston, VP of Product is hiring a Sr Product Manager to join “Replicated” (a fully remote company!) - here is the hiring manager’s post.

• Hubspot is hiring a Sr Product Manager for their growing Developer Platform - here is the Linkedin post.

• Paradigm is hiring a Sr Product Marketing Manager in the clinical research space - here is the recruiter’s post.

• If you are like me and still listen to the radio while driving in 2024 😆 , Sirius XM is hiring a Sr. Product Manager in the interesting space of search and personalization - multiple locations - here is the HM’s post.

• Sacha Adam at Intuit is hiring for multiple product and program manager roles - including Group Product Manager roles. Here is his post.

  Tired of Linkedin? Try non-traditional job boards!
  Check out Lenny’s job board, or TheProductManager job board, or MindtheProduct job board!

PM Career/Interview Tips of the Week

💥 We are in week 7 of the PM Level-Up Group Program - and our topic of the week is Leadership and Behavioral Interview Questions!

Here’s WHY behavioral interview questions are SO IMPORTANT:

1. How you tell the story of your accomplishments helps the interviewer know if you are a good story-teller (or not 😉), and can you be put in front of executives if hired, and be trusted to do a great job at telling your product’s story!

2. They play a role in deciding your level or calibration - if you can confidently and succinctly answer these questions, you are more likely to get an offer at a higher PM level.

3. They reassure the interviewer that you have the right personality traits, skills and characteristics that if hired, you will excel or succeed in the role. Just because someone has good core PM skills does not make them a right fit for the job - you also need to demonstrate that you have the right personality, attitude, emotional intelligence, creativity and grit - to be a great PM!

You may already be familiar with the STAR or STAR-L (STAR + Learnings) framework for these questions - however some of my clients asked me for something more easy and intuitive for us PMs - so I came up with a new method!

• BUPARL - (“boo paa rel”  👻, right in time for Halloween!)

  • B = Business Goals and North Star Metrics

  • U = Users and their unmet needs, or biggest problems!

  • P = The product you designed/built/launched to solve unmet user needs/problems! WHY did this product need to be built?

  • A = Actions you took to accomplish what was needed (e.g. you aligned people on the roadmap, you pivoted your product strategy, you resolved cross-functional conflicts etc.) - show you’re a GREAT PM!

  • R = Results or Outcomes + Impact

  • L = What did you learn from this? And how do you do things differently now?

👉️ Here is a short video with some insights into why you might be getting down-leveled based on your behavioral interviews.

💥 What are your biggest challenges in answering Behavioral Interview questions? Reply back with the word ”behavioral” and I can share my secret tips for these questions that I normally only share with clients 😉 

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