ZoomyPickle
ZoomyPickle

Early days as Product Management Professional

I want to understand if this is common for folks and is there a way to tackle it.

I have recently moved my career from Talent Acquisition to Product Management Internally in my organization. My New Manager has also very recently joined the team. I see him barely investing time in understanding the skillset I hold and whenever there's a time of taking some responsibilities he will give it to others. I have been doing some operational work for the past 1 month now, majorly with excel sheets and coordination.

I want to start working as a Product Management Professional and not as an operational Guy !

Open to suggestions on how to take this up !

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PerkyCupcake
PerkyCupcake

Few ways to think about it:

  1. Your manager is prolly letting you warm up before the actual sh*t show starts.
  2. They’re not happy with the internal hiring; and might be giving out dumb work; in this case you should have 1:1 every week and ask about your progress and what they’re expecting from you
MagicalSushi
MagicalSushi

In my opinion, don't wait for your manager to give you "work". Engage more (meaningfully) in the product discussions, go down into a number crunching mode and suggest the changes which might help the customers, continuously have 1:1 (these are just random examples). Don't let the work come to you.

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