Your First 90 Days in a New Product Role
Hector Del Castillo | 2022 Product Summit Online™ | October 29, 2022
This engaging discussion of what a product manager must do in the first 90 days to build a strong foundation for success in a new product leadership role was featured at the 2022 Product Summit Online™. This is for product people who have been impacted by recent layoffs and are looking for their next product job opportunity.
You’re in your first days in a new product manager role. In no time, your calendar will be full and you’ll have a zillion emails. There’s so much to do. Where should you begin?
Before the demands of others overwhelm you, you need to prepare yourself to be the business and market liaison to the product team. Your role as a product manager or product owner is to make the best business decisions for the product, working from the best available information.
You will learn:
- Why preparation is key to find the right opportunity
- How to identify suitable product job opportunities
- Steps to create your 90-day roadmap to ensure success
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Key Takeaways
To build a strong foundation for success and establish their leadership, product managers in their first 90 days should:
- Begin relationship building and data gathering from Day 1 by finding key internal stakeholders.
- Setting regular one-on-ones with internal stakeholders and by identifying opportunities for customer interactions.
- Build or revise the roadmap to integrate customer needs with those of internal stakeholders, to both guide the product and establish strong relationships.
- Create the environment for change by aligning proposed incremental changes with early wins, while avoiding the temptation to change too much too soon.
Slides
Here are the slides from this discussion at the 2022 Product Summit Online™.
Speaker
Hector Del Castillo
Chief Product Officer, BoldPM
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