Women in Product

Hi! I am starting a new role where I will be responsible for building a technique to evaluate future opportunities where the company should invest. How do you evaluate new opportunities and define the… more

How do you navigate the holidays, with or without kids? I tend to be pretty busy over the next 3-4 months and I always try to make as much time for family as I can, but it seems like it's never en… more

Want to implement Sprint retrospectives, which our team hasn’t done before. It will be virtual. We don’t have a single whiteboarding application available to us - how would you recommend I run the ret… more

Can you be introverted and have social anxiety and succeed as a product manager at a large company?

How to let go of perfectionism? All through school I struggled with it (I'm very type A if you can't tell) and now it's impacting my work. I'm less confident than I should be about my … more

My PO consistently dismisses user-raised concerns with “well that’s not a problem for me”. How can I get him to prioritize (or rather, not ignore) user issues that don’t bother or happen to affect him… more

How do you guys find dating as a woman in product? I find that a lot of guys can be intimidated by a woman who runs or leads a team. It's almost like they get weirdly competitive with me once I me… more

Fun plans for the weekend? Anyone taking kiddo's trick or treating? Or dropping them off at grandmas and going to a Halloween/Day of the Dead party? (I am of the latter party lol.)

What do you want out of your career in product? Why'd you choose this career, and what do you hope to achieve?

I’m a Data PM and my background is quite technical, but i seem to keep coming across lots of men who love “explaining” me “techy” concepts.
How do you all manage this? It’s exhausting 😩.

Hello!!! Working on a skincare tech product and currently doing discovery that helps me support or invalidate some of my assumptions. What are the best participant recruitment tools for surveys and in… more

3 months in this new job and I’m not excited/ disengaged - has anyone felt this way? I’m not sure where/ how to bring in changes

What's the best role you have been in and why?

If you were being mentored, what areas would you ask to be mentored on? What should mentors be aware of while mentoring?

Tips for imposter syndrome? In my first PO role and although I know I'm qualified and honestly mostly believe I can handle it, every day I expect my boss to walk through the door and claim I trick… more

Aspiring product owner. I have been a PM for 9+ years now. Looking to switch to product owner roles. How to break into those roles? What's the best way? I have completed CSPO certification but uns… more

I feel like all product leadership should have to spend several months or a year+ as PM. This would hopefully eliminate the distance between the PM's roadmap and leadership's plan. Where I wor… more

Hi fellow PMs, I am trying to improve my PM skills with some hands on exercises. My current focus area is 'metrics'. My plan is to do some basic reading on metrics and then try some hands on e… more

Hello can anyone help me out with a referral for Sr PM role @cvshealth? I'm in a toxic environment and need to get out fast plz.

What does yearly planning look like at your company?

Recently pivoted into a PM role after being a PMM. Curious if Pricing is part of other's responsibilities or if other's have a dedicated team to help with pricing their products and what facto… more

Hi, I’m Looking for any leads for PM role! I’ve held a PM role for 7 months at a 10k person tech company. My background is in mechanical engineering. I Worked at a large server HW company for 5 years … more

Hi! Need recommendations for books, courses or blogs to get a better handle on market research, business case and executive reporting. I am a PM with a couple of years of experience and moving into a … more

What made your best manager your best? And your worst manager your worst? Horror stories and happy-ever-afters are both welcome.

I'll be moving from Netherlands to Boston area end of this year. 5 years experience as PO (with lots of PM work) (11y experience overall). Any tips and thoughts on finding remote contract work in … more

Has anybody worked on an all-female team? Or under senior female management? Not to exclude or anything, but I think it would be pretty cool.

What is the best or most interesting product you've ever managed or worked on? I'm trying to figure out if this is the career for me and I'm hopeful that there are more interesting product… more

How do I increase and work on my soft skills? I feel like I do okay but it's not a really big strength of mine. I'd rather just get on with things than sugarcoat. Anyways all help is appreciat… more

Doing the best I can in not great circumstances because we're understaffed. I have a female manager and we used to really get along, but as soon as I kind of got my feet under me she started actin… more

I want to get better as a product manager, and don't really have a mentor. How can I do it? I already subscribe to a lot of blogs etc but want something hands-on with a feedback loop. Suggestions … more

Hi all! Need advise. I am extremely burnt out. I hate my job, I get no support, and I keep on getting more stuff added on my plate (project management, change management, development, testing and help… more

Has anyone been able to make the transition from a Product Manager to Product Design? Been interested in this role but sure what it takes.

My Director just took my deck (which I spent the last 3 weeks on), did very VERY minor changes.. and pasted her name on the intro page. There was no name initially, because I was the only person working on this. … more

Has anyone transitioned to a product manager role in their late 40s or early 50s? If yes, what was your process/plan, and how long did it take to transition?

Continuous learning!
Hello ladies, what's something you want to learn or have done already(courses, certifications) that helped/you think will help progression in your PM/career journey?

How many of you are really happy in your product manager role? I'm currently a product owner and thinking about migrating to a product manager role, but I'm not 100% certain it's a good fit.

There app… more