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TRACK 3

So you want to be a product manager?

Thinking about a career in Product Management? This track provides the inside scoop. We'll explain the role and help you determine if it's the right fit for you.

Here is what we will discuss during the meetings

What is Product Management? What flavors of PMs are there?
How does a Product Manager differ from a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Program Manager, Project Manager, Technical Product/Program Manager, and others?
How can skills from other roles or domains transfer to product management?
What is product sense, and how can it be developed? How can I start building products of my own? (baby steps)
What is the impact of AI on the role?
Become a Mentee

Meet your mentors

They are experienced professionals in the field who are dedicated to helping you succeed. They are committed to providing guidance, support, and expertise to help you achieve your goals.

Mentor

Liviu Lica

Fractional Product Leader & Product Builder, ex-Head of Product Flip, Deepstash, Hootsuite

10+ years of product management and product leadership experiences with expertise across diverse domains including B2B SaaS, B2C, and e-commerce, mobile apps. With a solid technical foundation of 7+ years of hands-on experience as a software engineer, I have a strong understanding of technical intricacies and engineering challenges.


Co-founder and mentor in Product Tank Bucharest, the largest product management community in Romania. I help startups overcome difficulties they face with their products and get to PMF.

Mentor

Valerian Banu

PM for 11 years and co-founder of the community

​Bülent Duagi works as an Executive Adviser on Strategy and Foresight with CEOs in Tech, and as a Facilitator for Strategy Execution with teams working on strategic initiatives.Since leaving Bitdefender back in 2015, where he led the macOS and iOS consumer products, he’s been constantly guiding Romanian Product teams to increase their impact by developing their Product Mindset and Product Craft on topics like Product Discovery, Product Metrics and Product Strategy.

Mentor

Ioana Simtion

Head of Product

Head of Product with AirportLabs. Product Leader passionate about building and scaling tech products and product teams.

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Who is this track for

Aspiring PMs: you are thinking about moving to product management and want to understand better what you are getting into and the skills needed.
Adjacent roles working with PMs: you work closely with PMs and want to understand how to improve the collaboration and why they do what they do.

Who is this track not for

Existing PMs
People interested in the interview process for a job as a PM; another track covers this in more detail.

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