I just landed my first full-time PM role after interning during school, and it’s honestly overwhelming in the best way. I’m trying to figure out how to build trust quickly with my engineers while still learning the ropes. For those who’ve been there, what helped you feel confident early on without pretending to know everything? I’d love any tips for setting the right tone from the start.

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Ask a lot of questions, take great notes, and close the loop when you follow up. Showing you're reliable and genuinely trying to understand their world goes a long way, even if you're new.

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What associate 1 said also I picked up a product called pip decks and this helped me with communicating and how to interact with the team as well as discovery. I used worship tactics, story telling ya tics, innovation tactics and strategy tactics a lot

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Here is the link. What more info would you like?

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Don't pretend to know everything for sure. follow up on everything to demonstrate your reliability. Include others as much as possible.

Be real with the engineers. Go home and read up on anything you hear and don’t know about. Just to be able to know what questions you need too.

This is so real - knowing what questions to ask makes a huge difference.

Ask questions early, there will come a time when you need to know something and should have asked about xyz earlier.

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