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Shadi

Head Of Product

Postal

Cal Poly
N/A

This Advizer is open to you reaching out!
Product Management - 10 years, Partner Management - 10 years, Sales Team Management - 2 years
Technology
Product / Service / Software Development and Management
Business Management & Admin
First Generation College Student

Q1Career path

Career Development

Relationship Building

Product Management

2:41

"I wanted to dive into something I'd never done before and had really no experience with"

Q2Main responsibilities

Market Analysis

Product Management

Prioritization

1:22

"My job is to prioritize the most important things we can build or maintain or fix or improve in our product."

Q3Day in the life

Communication

Project Management

Data Analysis

1:43

"Staying really close to the customer is one of the first things, whether it's looking at that data or being directly in there with them."

Q4Most important skills - role

Project Management

Communication

Problem-Solving

1:44

"I think the main one, or one of the first ones is just around humility and having like a, a genuine care for people and, and connecting with people"

Q5Favorite parts - role

Communication

Teamwork

Leadership

0:49

"I enjoy most working with a bunch of different people and different kinds of personalities, and learning about how to motivate them."

Q6Biggest challenge - role

Product Management

Data Analysis

Iteration and Improvement

1:07

"when you release something, when you ship it, now you've got an opportunity for customers to use it."

Q7Favorite parts - industry

Leadership

Communication

Project Management

1:01

"We get to be multipliers in all the different areas as much as we can."

Q8Who thrives in industry

Resilience

Problem-Solving

Communication

1:10

"Product folks need to be resilient in order to continue to push no matter what the outcome is each time that they're releasing."

Q9Wish known before - industry

Resilience

Responsibility

Leadership

1:30

"the importance of resilience and that sometimes product folks can come out to be scapegoats"

Q10Entry-level positions

Internships

Entry-Level Jobs

Product Management

1:25

"What I've seen work well have been folks who go in and looking for product management internships."

Q11Significant lesson - career

Leadership

Communication

Teamwork

1:18

"we are all folks trying to do the best we can with our day and with our time, um, and sort of realizing the humanity of those folks."

Q12College ideas for success

Communication

Leadership

Teamwork

1:19

"In whatever relationship I had with my professors or peers, did my best to put in my best work...to try to be someone who put my best effort in and was someone who the others wanted to be around."