Any Product Managers around who can give career advice on what the job generally entails? I technically do Product Management, but without the title and wanted to see salary ranges and general personal job descriptions for anyone willing to talk about it.

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Started my day with the product owner. We reviewed the future sprint plan’s priorities to see what we needed to push back. A meeting yesterday made it clear. We had too many stories in the sprint. We have a regular meeting 1-on-1 every week to discuss anything. Today’s meeting just focused on the next sprint.

Then worked asynchronously… off and on a presentation with other people. This was probably 1.5 hours of my day. We were using the deck during an afternoon meeting with our user advisory group. We had a Slack channel to discuss slides. Multiple people did quick (unscheduled) zoom meetings to walk through the deck’s story telling. I attended one of these meetings.

Data analytics on data that the product collects…mostly pivot tables.. trying to test a theory... look at segmented data.

Facilitated daily “stand up” meeting.

Note: In this particular job I am the scrum master. In other jobs, someone from engineering was the scrum master. And sometimes there is an associate product manager or project manager who does this work.

Immediately following the standup we hold “office hours” meeting. This is 15-minute meeting where everyone attends. Anyone can discuss anything.

Worked on an EPIC and some stories in Jira. Mocked up potential design. Team has UX designer who does wireframes. I am working on a story that is earlier in refinement. I use images to communicate and help with discussions.

Checked my email. I was tagged on a Jira with a question.

Participated in user advisory meeting. It was very lively. 

Email exchange with everyone who presented at the user advisory group. I took ownership of logging most new stories that came from the meeting. Product owner is going to work on a few.

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I like my job. I get to work on “top > down” planning. If my team/product was larger I would be less involved in day-to-day execution.

My days are always different.

You can see the job descriptions on LinkedIn and Indeed… so I assume that is not what you are looking for.

are you more interested in “day in the life” or laundry list of responsibilities?

Day in the life

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