{"id":518,"date":"2018-12-07T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2018-12-07T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:44:15","slug":"my-product-manager-pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/startup\/my-product-manager-pivot\/","title":{"rendered":"My Product Manager Pivot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My career has been business facing for the last 10 years.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been GM of a tech startup, and now I&#8217;m a relationship\/negotiation person for another startup.\u00a0 I want to be a product manager, and I&#8217;m taking steps now to make that happen. I got into tech because building products\u00a0appeals to me.\u00a0 Putting good products into people&#8217;s hands and seeing them enjoy them drives me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been put into other roles because that&#8217;s what the company needed at the time.\u00a0 But now, I want to do what I want to do.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve done a bit of research on it, and unsurprisingly, the best way to become a product manager is to build products, but there are other useful frameworks to think about as well.\u00a0 The two below outline those.\u00a0 The first defines how a product manager spends their time.\u00a0 The second categorizes the type of product managers you would usually find in Silicon Valley.\u00a0 I think a good product manager is worth their weight in gold, and I hope to be that one day.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"859\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager1.png 859w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager1-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager1-768x586.png 768w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager1-700x534.png 700w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager1-520x397.png 520w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager1-360x275.png 360w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager1-250x191.png 250w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager1-100x76.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-520\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager2.png 829w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager2-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager2-768x651.png 768w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager2-700x594.png 700w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager2-520x441.png 520w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager2-360x305.png 360w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager2-250x212.png 250w, https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/product_manager2-100x85.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My career has been business facing for the last 10 years.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been GM of a tech startup, and now I&#8217;m a relationship\/negotiation person for another startup.\u00a0 I want to be a product manager, and I&#8217;m taking steps now to make that happen. I got into tech because building products\u00a0appeals to me.\u00a0 Putting good products [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startup"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}