Business
Product Manager
Sits between users, business and engineering to decide what gets built and why.
About the work
Product managers own the direction of a product: researching users, defining problems worth solving, prioritising work and holding the team to an outcome rather than a feature list.
A day in the life
Morning user interviews, midday prioritisation with engineering and design, afternoon reviewing usage data and writing the next brief.
How people get in
Any graduate degree, ideally with business or technology exposure, followed by an associate PM or business analyst role.
Core skills
- Communication
- Prioritisation
- User research
- Data literacy
- Stakeholder management