Key takeaways: - Transitioning from Analyst roles into Product - Life and career outlook as a data/reporting product manager - Learning to love the other side of data - qualitative data - Product managing your own life to increase productivity and happiness

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9. How To Find and
Succeed at Your
Job
Emmalyn Yee
Disclaimer: Views expressed are my own. They are in no way related to my current or former employers GoodRx,
Cornerstone OnDemand

10. Who am I?
Senior Data Product Manager @ Good Rx
Prior:
● Product Manager, Reporting @
Cornerstone OnDemand
● Sales Analyst @ Oakwood
● Strategy & Operations Analyst @
Deloitte Consulting

11. Agenda
1. How to find your job
2. Life and career outlook as a data product manager
3. How to succeed at your job
4. Product managing your own life
5. Q&A

12. How to find your job
● Internships
● Associate roles
● Leverage your expertise
● Networking
○ Referrals
○ LinkedIn
○ Alumni
○ Nepotism

13. Life
● What do clients really want
● Predicting needs
● Validating hypothesis
● Most efficient way to solve that need
● Specifying for engineers

14. Life

15. Career Outlook
● Principal PM
● Senior PM
● PM
● Associate PM
● Chief Product Officer
● VP of PM
● Director of PM
● Lead PM
● Senior PM
Mastery of PM Craft
Leadership

16. Exits
● Founder
● Venture Capital
● Business School
● Engineer
● Instructor
>90% stay in product*
* don’t quote me on this

17. 4 P’s

18. How to succeed at your job
● Greatest opportunities / challenges for company
● Improve your emotional intelligence (self, others)
● Ask for feedback
● Work smart, not hard
● Prioritization

19. How do I ensure a successful transition?
● 90 day plan
○ Listen & Learn
■ Unwritten rules
○ Plan
○ Deliver
○ Iterate

20. Qualitative Data
5 Why’s
Jobs to be done:
● What are they hiring the product to do?
● Current state?
● Desired state?

22. Working with engineers
● Understand level of specificity
● Beginners mindset
● Focus on the problem

23. Product Managing your own life
Stop procrastinating
● Create safety
● Stop being a $#@&%@* to yourself. Positive self-talk
● Guilt-free play

24. Stop procrastinating
● Create safety
● Stop being a $#@&%@* to yourself. Positive self-talk
● Guilt-free play

28. SAY NO
● No, I need time to think about that
● No, that won’t enable me to do a good job
● No, that does not align to our values
● Yes, I’d love to, but I have prior commitments

29. For the ladies

30. Let’s recap
● Network into a job
● Work smart
● Say no. A lot.
● Have fun!
Product is an awesome role

31. Thank You!
Questions? -- Let’s talk
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