Tune in to listen to Ramki Vaidanathan, Digital Principal Product Manager at Starbucks, share the stories behind some of his best product wisdom & career tips for new and aspiring/pivoting product managers.
Ramki's product wisdom & career tips discussed in this episode
- Your fundamental objective is to drive clarity from ambiguity, really get at the heart of the why
- Getting to the right problem is half the solution
- Why? 3 reasons; solve for a customer pain, solve for a business pain point, or initiative from a compliance/legal perspective
- If you make a mistake; own up to it, learn from it, get better at it
- You're only as great as your team and it truly takes a village to build an awesome product
- Assimilate the best of your team into the product thinking
- Iterate, iterate, iterate because progress eats perfection for lunch
- Learn to be comfortable with incomplete information, but use data to make directional decisions
- I don't know what I really don't know, let's figure it out together
How to contact Ramki
- Connect with Ramki on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramkiv/
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