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A Product Owner develops, owns and executes the product roadmap for an organization.  Their role is to collaborate with cross-functional teams, various stakeholders, global commercial services partners, and customers in order to launch a product.  Their responsibilities are to define the self-service user experience, turn data insights into products with actionable outcomes, translate product roadmap features into defined product requirements, develop features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria, and create and maintain appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment.

Product managers design solutions. You don't have to have a special background or degree to get into this field - but you do need to enjoy thinking analytically and solving problems. Learn more about product management and tips on how to get started.

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<h2>Product Managers</h2><p>Product managers don't build products. They help design solutions based off of problems that they've discovered.</p><p><br></p><h2>Product Management Skills</h2><p>You need to be good at solving problems and thinking analytically. That's probably one of the most important skills you need to have. But it's not like you need an engineering degree or you need a math degree. And one of the other important things is to be able to lead and communicate well because this is a job of influence. You're talking to lots of people, from the CEO to customer support to your customers. And you have to be able to talk with them on a one-on-one basis and switch context really easily. Another big requirement is just understanding how software is built. And you don't have to be a computer science major, but you have to have a passion for realizing that software is a series of programs or steps that accomplishes a task. And understanding what those steps are is really important so you can help guide in the development of software.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>Common Pathways to Product Management</h2><p>There's folks that come into the job from lots of different backgrounds. About 80% of people come through one of two paths. Either they were some sort of engineer by training, or they had some sort of business background by training. Another large segment of people study this concept called human-computer interaction, which is what product managers are doing. They're trying to understand how can humans interact with computers and technology in their everyday life.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>Tips to Get Into Product Management</h2><p>There's no real training. Anybody can do it. You just have to want to think analytically and solve other people's problems.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Just starting to network and join tech communities. You could do that online or you could do that in person. And then start working on a project of your own. Look at a simple webpage to make. Look at doing an internship for free online, working for a company five hours a week, designing an email for them. Do something simple. A simple place where you can deliver a product or an experience and measure success.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>It's also really important to know that in this job, data is important, but you've really gotta go on your gut and try to be creative. So it's a combination of what the data tells you, but also what your get tells you about how you can solve a problem for your customers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>One of the things that's really important about this space is learning about all the new technologies that other people are developing. And so I spend about an hour a day reading about new technologies that are coming out and thinking about, huh, that's a cool thing I could do for my customers. Maybe I can bring that technology into my company and help my customers do something a little bit easier than they were doing in the past.</p><p><br></p>

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