How to Product?
How to Product?
PM School
This podcast series is brought to you by PM School and hosted by Arjav Jain - Lead Product Manager at Osmo/BYJU'S. It is designed to guide students and early-in-career professionals to understand the nuances of an otherwise undefined world of Product Management. We will bring in industry experts and talk to them about the questions that you've been losing your sleep over and you will walk away with a better understanding of this crazy world and be placed better to dive into your first PM role. Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://bit.ly/3kMQWj8
Effective Growth and Right Price ft Anuj Rathi, SVP of Revenue and Growth at Swiggy
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠⁠⁠⁠ In this episode (S04E04) of "How to Product?", ⁠⁠⁠⁠Arjav Jain⁠⁠⁠⁠, the host talks to Anuj Rathi, SVP of Revenue and Growth including Product at Swiggy. To start with, Anuj highlights some differences in product management in a marketplace or e-commerce vs a traditional software/product. Arjav digs deeper into something Anuj said "Growth is effective when the product is priced right" and the conversation revolves around how to go about effective growth and right pricing. Anuj breaks down what growth means and how to look at it, and multiple ways to price a product and what lens to wear depending on the nature of your product. Anuj provides an example of Swiggy One (a membership program on Swiggy) and talks at length about how he and his team went about designing it to achieve effective growth and the right price. Anuj leaves us with tips for budding PMs and we wished this episode wouldn't end! Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠⁠⁠⁠ About PM School: [Checkout ⁠⁠⁠⁠pmschool.io⁠⁠⁠⁠] Looking to make a career transition to Product Management? Take the first step to becoming an amazing Product Manager. PM School will help you get tested on Product skills. We do everything we possibly can to kickstart your PM career. And we would help you prepare a resume, practice interviews, and even help you in salary negotiation. Talk to us to understand how to approach companies and plan your move into Product management.  We have a 2-month remote program (you can join us from anywhere) that prepares you to excel in your first job as a Product Manager or to make a smooth transition to a leading Product role in your current/new organization.  Throughout the program, you will become familiar with a broad range of topics such as Product Discovery, Product Roadmap, Market Research, Agile, Scrum, Product Development, and Planning: which will provide you with a strong foundation to become a skilled Product Manager About Arjav Jain: Arjav is currently a Lead PM at Osmo/BYJU'S where he's leading some 0-1 strategic product initiatives for the company. He has over 5 years of experience in product and over 7 years in the industry primarily in the software space. He was previously a Program Manager and Software Engineer at Microsoft. Arjav is also an alumnus of Georgia Tech. [Follow him here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Arjav Jain⁠⁠⁠⁠] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howtoproduct/message
Apr 27, 2023
33 min
Product Launch, Customer Empathy & Long Term Product Career Success ft. Mithun Madhusudhan
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠⁠⁠ In this episode (S04E03) of "How to Product?", ⁠⁠⁠Arjav Jain⁠⁠⁠, the host talks to ⁠⁠⁠Mithun Madhusudhan⁠⁠, previously Head of Product, Candidate Engagement at Apna. Mithun speaks his mind about something he said previously - "From experience, launching a product is only 20% of the job. The hard work starts afterward." He talks in detail about a product launch. We then talk about customer empathy and how to develop that when you're working for a product you're probably never going to use yourself and ever find yourself in a situation of the person who would use it. Mithun speaks at length about how PMs can set themselves up for long-term success as well as focus on how to be successful in this economic downturn. He leaves us with some wonderful tips for budding PMs. Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠⁠⁠ About PM School: [Checkout ⁠⁠⁠pmschool.io⁠⁠⁠] Looking to make a career transition to Product Management? Take the first step to becoming an amazing Product Manager. PM School will help you get tested on Product skills. We do everything we possibly can to kickstart your PM career. And we would help you prepare a resume, practice interviews, and even help you in salary negotiation. Talk to us to understand how to approach companies and plan your move into Product management.  We have a 2-month remote program (you can join us from anywhere) that prepares you to excel in your first job as a Product Manager or to make a smooth transition to a leading Product role in your current/new organization.  Throughout the program, you will become familiar with a broad range of topics such as Product Discovery, Product Roadmap, Market Research, Agile, Scrum, Product Development, and Planning: which will provide you with a strong foundation to become a skilled Product Manager About Arjav Jain: Arjav is currently a Lead PM at Osmo/BYJU'S where he's leading some 0-1 strategic product initiatives for the company. He has over 4 years of experience in product and over 7 years in the industry primarily in the software space. He was previously a Program Manager and Software Engineer at Microsoft. Arjav is also an alumnus of Georgia Tech. [Follow him here: ⁠⁠⁠Arjav Jain⁠⁠⁠] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howtoproduct/message
Apr 19, 2023
30 min
B2B Product Management & Building Product Culture ft. Anupam Sarda, VP of Product Strategy and Operations at HighRadius
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - ⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠⁠ In this episode (S04E02) of "How to Product?", ⁠⁠Arjav Jain⁠⁠, the host talks to ⁠⁠Anupam Sarda⁠, VP of Product Strategy and Operations at HighRadius. Anupam starts off by talking about what HighRadius does and what Product Management is really about. He shares some wonderful frameworks for prioritization and how goes about doing it personally especially asking yourself - "am I spending my time in moving the right metric?." Anupam then breaks down the differences in B2C and B2B product management and how to approach B2B product management. He then shares his thoughts on a product culture in a company and how to go about setting a good one. He shares what he's done at HighRadius. Anupam leaves us with a great tip - "Say YES to a lot of things and give it your 100%" Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - ⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠⁠ About PM School: [Checkout ⁠⁠pmschool.io⁠⁠] Looking to make a career transition to Product Management? Take the first step to becoming an amazing Product Manager. PM School will help you get tested on Product skills. We do everything we possibly can to kickstart your PM career. And we would help you prepare a resume, practice interviews, and even help you in salary negotiation. Talk to us to understand how to approach companies and plan your move into Product management.  We have a 2-month remote program (you can join us from anywhere) that prepares you to excel in your first job as a Product Manager or to make a smooth transition to a leading Product role in your current/new organization.  Throughout the program, you will become familiar with a broad range of topics such as Product Discovery, Product Roadmap, Market Research, Agile, Scrum, Product Development, and Planning: which will provide you with a strong foundation to become a skilled Product Manager About Arjav Jain: Arjav is currently a Lead PM at Osmo/BYJU'S where he's leading some 0-1 strategic product initiatives for the company. He has over 4 years of experience in product and over 7 years in the industry primarily in the software space. He was previously a Program Manager and Software Engineer at Microsoft. Arjav is also an alumnus of Georgia Tech. [Follow him here: ⁠⁠Arjav Jain⁠⁠] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howtoproduct/message
Apr 13, 2023
24 min
Roadmaps 101 ft. Tejas Singh, Director of Product Management at ShareChat
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - ⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠ In this episode (S04E01) of "How to Product?", ⁠Arjav Jain⁠, the host talks to ⁠Tejas Singh, Director of Product Manager at ShareChat. Tejas talks about how different product management is in the creator space / social media space compared to the fintech, ecommerce or edtech industry - how building for "Bhaarat" is different traditionally. He goes on talk to about roadmaps - why they're important, and how they add value to an organization, and gives an amazing example to look at roadmaps. He says roadmaps bring order to the chaos. He breaks down the difference between Feature roadmaps and Product roadmaps. He then talks about how to evaluate a roadmap - what signals to use and at what cadence. He ends with golden tips for budding PMs. This episode has a lot in store! Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - ⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠ About PM School: [Checkout ⁠pmschool.io⁠] Looking to make a career transition to Product Management? Take the first step to becoming an amazing Product Manager. PM School will help you get tested on Product skills. We do everything we possibly can to kickstart your PM career. And we would help you prepare a resume, practice interviews, and even help you in salary negotiation. Talk to us to understand how to approach companies and plan your move into Product management.  We have a 2-month remote program (you can join us from anywhere) that prepares you to excel in your first job as a Product Manager or to make a smooth transition to a leading Product role in your current/new organization.  Throughout the program, you will become familiar with a broad range of topics such as Product Discovery, Product Roadmap, Market Research, Agile, Scrum, Product Development, and Planning: which will provide you with a strong foundation to become a skilled Product Manager About Arjav Jain: Arjav is currently a Lead PM at Osmo/BYJU'S where he's leading some 0-1 strategic product initiatives for the company. He has over 4 years of experience in product and over 7 years in the industry primarily in the software space. He was previously a Program Manager and Software Engineer at Microsoft. Arjav is also an alumnus of Georgia Tech. [Follow him here: ⁠Arjav Jain⁠] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howtoproduct/message
Mar 29, 2023
31 min
Challenges of being a Product Manager ft. Shyvee Shi, Product Manager at LinkedIn
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg In this episode (S03E05) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host talks to Shyvee Shi, Product Manager at LinkedIn. Shyvee talks about what transferable skills she picked up from each of her roles that have shaped her to be a better product manager today. She also discusses the importance of solving the right problem and suggests some ways to do that. She also addresses influencing without authority and has an awesome framework to get it right! Shyvee runs her own course of personal productivity and has some gems to share on how PMs can be more productive. She leaves us with her thoughts and advice to budding product managers. This one is a banger!  Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg About PM School: [Checkout pmschool.io] Looking to make a career transition to Product Management? Take the first step to becoming an amazing Product Manager. PM School will help you get tested on Product skills. We do everything we possibly can to kickstart your PM career. And we would help you prepare a resume, practice interviews, and even help you in salary negotiation. Talk to us to understand how to approach companies and plan your move into Product management.  We have a 2-month remote program (you can join us from anywhere) that prepares you to excel in your first job as a Product Manager or to make a smooth transition to a leading Product role in your current/new organization.  Throughout the program, you will become familiar with a broad range of topics such as Product Discovery, Product Roadmap, Market Research, Agile, Scrum, Product Development, and Planning: which will provide you with a strong foundation to become a skilled Product Manager About Arjav Jain: Arjav is currently a Senior PM at Osmo/BYJU'S where he's leading some 0-1 strategic product initiatives for the company. He has over 4 years of experience in product and over 7 years in the industry primarily in the software space. He was previously a Program Manager and Software Engineer at Microsoft. Arjav is also an alumnus of Georgia Tech. [Follow him here: Arjav Jain] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howtoproduct/message
Jul 28, 2022
36 min
Product Management Unfiltered ft. Mikhil Innani
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg In this episode (S03E04) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host talks to Mikhil Innani, CEO at Apollo Finvest. Mikhil has made transitions across roles and industries in his career and he breaks down what helped him do this, zoom out and zoom in and be successful in any role he took up. Mikhil also spilled the beans on product growth and his secret goto KPIs are to measure the right kind of growth. He then goes on to discuss what product management is NOT about and what the dark side of this role potentially could be - something that isn't addressed often. To end, like any other episode, there are some tips for folks to rise and shine in the product role. Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg About PM School: [Checkout pmschool.io] Looking to make a career transition to Product Management? Take the first step to becoming an amazing Product Manager. PM School will help you get tested on Product skills. We do everything we possibly can to kickstart your PM career. And we would help you prepare a resume, practice interviews, and even help you in salary negotiation. Talk to us to understand how to approach companies and plan your move into Product management.  We have a 2-month remote program (you can join us from anywhere) that prepares you to excel in your first job as a Product Manager or to make a smooth transition to a leading Product role in your current/new organization.  Throughout the program, you will become familiar with a broad range of topics such as Product Discovery, Product Roadmap, Market Research, Agile, Scrum, Product Development and Planning: which will provide you with a strong foundation to become a skilled Product Manager About Arjav Jain: Arjav is currently a Senior PM at Osmo/BYJU'S where he's leading some 0-1 strategic product initiatives for the company. He has over 3.5 years of experience in product and closes to 7 years in the industry primarily in the software space. He was previously a Program Manager and Software Engineer at Microsoft. Arjav is also an alumnus of Georgia Tech. [Follow him here: Arjav Jain] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howtoproduct/message
Jun 17, 2022
28 min
Success for a PM ft. Deepak Singh, Sr. Director of Product at Unacademy
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg In this episode (S03E03) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host talks to Deepak Singh, Sr. Director of Product at Unacademy about what success looks like and how to choose a north star metric and then go on to talk about the importance of technology for PMs. The discussion starts at the process of defining a North Star Metric and what characteristics it should have. Deepak provides an example from MX player to put things in context. He then goes on to explain how to estimate the impact before launching a feature and he provides a good framework to follow. Deepak then talks about the importance of technology for PMs and provides a brief on his book - "Tech Simplified". He leaves us with some notes on what he looks for in PM hires, especially for first-time movers. This episode has a lot to take away so tune in right away!  Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg   About PM School: [Checkout pmschool.io] Looking to make a career transition to Product Management? Take the first step to becoming an amazing Product Manager. PM School will help you get tested on Product skills. We do everything we possibly can to kickstart your PM career. And we would help you prepare a resume, practice interviews, and even help you in salary negotiation. Talk to us to understand how to approach companies and plan your move into Product management.  We have a 2-month remote program (you can join us from anywhere) that prepares you to excel in your first job as a Product Manager or to make a smooth transition to a leading Product role in your current/new organization.  Throughout the program, you will become familiar with a broad range of topics such as Product Discovery, Product Roadmap, Market Research, Agile, Scrum, Product Development, and Planning: which will provide you with a strong foundation to become a skilled Product Manager   About Arjav Jain: Arjav is currently a Senior PM at Osmo/BYJU'S where he's leading some 0-1 strategic product initiatives for the company. He has over 3.5 years of experience in product and closes to 7 years in the industry primarily in the software space. He was previously a Program Manager and Software Engineer at Microsoft. Arjav is also an alumnus of Georgia Tech. [Follow him here: Arjav Jain] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howtoproduct/message
Jun 3, 2022
37 min
The Journey to Product Market Fit ft. Kirti Varun, CPO at Meesho
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg In this episode (S03E02) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host talks to Kirti Varun, CPO at Meesho about the journey to Product Market Fit. The discussion starts at what an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is and how to define the scope of your MVP - with real examples from Meesho and Armesha this discussion becomes super relatable and has clear takeaways. Kirti then details how to move from an MVP to a V1 of your product. The discussion then proceeds to define what product market fit is and how to move from the V1 of your product to PMF and how to know when you've achieved PMF. As always, there are key tips for folks looking to break into the product role in this episode as well. The clarity of thought Kirti has and the insights he has to offer to make sure this episode is a banger. Tune in!  Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg   About PM School: [Checkout pmschool.io] Looking to make a career transition to Product Management? Take the first step to becoming an amazing Product Manager. PM School will help you get tested on Product skills. We do everything we possibly can to kickstart your PM career. And we would help you prepare a resume, practice interviews, and even help you in salary negotiation. Talk to us to understand how to approach companies and plan your move into Product management.  We have a 2-month remote program (you can join us from anywhere) that prepares you to excel in your first job as a Product Manager or to make a smooth transition to a leading Product role in your current/new organization.  Throughout the program, you will become familiar with a broad range of topics such as Product Discovery, Product Roadmap, Market Research, Agile, Scrum, Product Development, and Planning: which will provide you with a strong foundation to become a skilled Product Manager    About Arjav Jain: Arjav is currently a Senior PM at Osmo/BYJU'S where he's leading some 0-1 strategic product initiatives for the company. He has over 3.5 years of experience in product and close to 7 years in the industry primarily in the software space. He was previously a Program Manager and Software Engineer at Microsoft. Arjav is also an alumnus of Georgia Tech. [Follow him here: Arjav Jain] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howtoproduct/message
May 19, 2022
37 min
Getting Product Discovery Right ft. Teressa Torres, Product Discovery Coach
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg In this episode (S03E01) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host speaks to Teressa Torres, Product Discovery Coach and the author of Continuous Discovery Habits. Teressa has coached numerous organizations across the world on how to get product discovery right. In this conversation, Teressa first explains what product discovery is and goes on to do that in a super simple manner. Arjav asks Teressa about how to maintain a balance between doing enough product discovery and also ship quickly and go to market quickly. Teressa then goes on to talk about what PMs are getting wrong about product discovery and what are some frameworks to ensure we're doing it correctly. She also talks about how to have a conversation with customers - she mentions how she has a story-based approach to talking to customers. Teressa shares a few questions that PMs could add to their arsenal while conducting user interviews. Teressa also talks about how to do customer interviews in a virtual world and she leaves us with some tips for folks trying to break into the product role. Buy Teressa's book "Continuous Discovery Habits" on Amazon Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg About PM School: [Checkout pmschool.io] Looking to make a career transition to Product Management? Take the first step to becoming an amazing Product Manager. PM School will help you get tested on Product skills. We do everything we possibly can to kickstart your PM career. And we would help you prepare a resume, practice interviews, and even help you in salary negotiation. Talk to us to understand how to approach companies and plan your move into Product management.  We have a 2-month remote program (you can join us from anywhere) that prepares you to excel in your first job as a Product Manager or to make a smooth transition to a leading Product role in your current/new organization.  Throughout the program, you will become familiar with a broad range of topics such as Product Discovery, Product Roadmap, Market Research, Agile, Scrum, Product Development, and Planning: which will provide you with a strong foundation to become a skilled Product Manager About Arjav Jain: Arjav is currently a Senior PM at BYJU'S where he's leading some 0-1 strategic product initiatives for the company. He has over 3.5 years of experience in product and close to 7 years in the industry primarily in the software space. He was previously a Program Manager and Software Engineer at Microsoft. Arjav is also an alumnus of Georgia Tech. [Follow him here: Arjav Jain] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howtoproduct/message
May 5, 2022
14 min
Being a Better Product Manager ft. Aatir Abdul Rauf, Director of Marketing and Product Management at VFairs
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg In this episode (S02E05) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host speaks to Aatir Abdul Rauf, Director of Marketing and Product Management at VFairs. Aatir has spent a large part of his career leading both marketing and product teams at various organizations and he talks about how to become a better product manager by picking up lessons from a marketer's playbook - know what the customers want, why does the customer want what they want, why do we offer what we offer & how are better than everybody else. Aatir then beautifully lays out some great rules to follow to be better at stakeholder management - an important skill for a product manager. He then goes on to speak his mind about what he'd like to change about this role in practice from his observations over the years - some great insights here for product leaders to set the culture in their orgs. Aatir then talks about how he looks at his own professional growth over the years and what has been his core while moving up the ladder and building great products for the world. He leaves us with tips for folks looking to break into the role either as fresh graduates and for experienced professionals looking to pivot into product management. The end of season 2 promises to be a banger. Do give it a listen!   Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg About PM School: [Checkout pmschool.io] Looking to make a career transition to Product Management? Take the first step to becoming an amazing Product Manager. PM School will help you get tested on Product skills. We do everything we possibly can to kickstart your PM career. And we would help you prepare a resume, practice interviews, and even help you in salary negotiation. Talk to us to understand how to approach companies and plan your move into Product management.  We have a 2-month remote program (you can join us from anywhere) that prepares you to excel in your first job as a Product Manager or to make a smooth transition to a leading Product role in your current/new organization.  Throughout the program, you will become familiar with a broad range of topics such as Product Discovery, Product Roadmap, Market Research, Agile, Scrum, Product Development and Planning: which will provide you with a strong foundation to become a skilled Product Manager  About Arjav Jain: Arjav is currently a Senior PM at BYJU'S where he's leading some 0-1 strategic product initiatives for the company. He has over 3 years of experience in product and over 6 years in the industry primarily in the software space. He was previously a Program Manager and Software Engineer at Microsoft. Arjav is also an alumnus of Georgia Tech. [Follow him here: Arjav Jain] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howtoproduct/message
Nov 5, 2021
34 min
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