Hello, I’m Sam
Are you curious like me? Sure you are, explore to see what i’m all about
Here’s a head start on the product discovery
Problem
User Persona
Market Research
Key features
Two fold, problem for you and a problem for me:
- You need someone to come and provide value and drive your product forward from day 1
- I want a role that allows me to grow, challenges me and is I can commit to
Personal
- 31, Sydney, He/him, British
- Interests – Sailing, cycling, hockey & kitesurfing
Professional
- 5 years in product roles from executive, to junior to product manager
- Recruitment & telecoms industries
- SAAS business phone system, broadband portfolio, digital internal pricing tools, internal engagement & training
Psychographic
- Motivator – driven by competition & progression
- Likes – to get involved in all areas of a business
- Dislikes – conversations that go round in circles with no outcome
- Goals – Be a CPO one day, don’t get bogged down in the mire and keep the problem being solved at the core of everything
- Cross functional alignment – biggest challenge in Product management 2023
- AI increasingly key to product activities
- 43% of companies looking to hire PM in 2023 (source: Productboard
- Building relationships at every level (e.g quiet junior dev to boisterous head of sales )
- Tea drinking (Sorry Aussies, it’s not coffee yet)
- Calm under pressure
- Clear, concise, confident communication (that’s a lot of Cs!)
- Sarcasm
- Objection handling