823 Advizers

Kevin

Product Manager

ChargePoint

Cornell University 2011
UCLA MBA

Kevin Chung has over 10 years of experience in entrepreneurship, sales, and product development across industries including transportation, hospitality and eCommerce.
UCLA Anderson

UCLA Anderson

Energy & Utilities
Technology
Product / Service / Software Development and Management
Political Science, American Studies
Honors Student
Scholarship Recipient
Took Out Loans
Greek Life Member
LGBTQ
Student Athlete

Q1Career path

Overcoming Challenges

Technology

Career Exploration

1:43

"he had mentioned that you will be successful, but not in this current role that you're serving in."

Q2Main responsibilities

Requirement Gathering

Product Management

Roadmap Development

0:45

"So as a product manager, my main responsibilities are to really design the requirements and requirements, meaning what types of engineering resources do we need?"

Q3Day in the life

Project Management

Communication

Teamwork

1:25

"in any PM as it's abbreviated, uh, product management role, there will be a lot of meetings that you'll have with various stakeholders."

Q4Most important skills - role

Communication

Business Acumen

Technical Skills

2:03

"So if there's an engineer in the room, can you translate what some folks have required as like a deliverable into a way that engineers can understand? So things like this require pretty good communication skills, and I would say technical knowledge"

Q5Favorite parts - role

Product Management

Responsibility

Leadership

1:20

"What I think I enjoy the most is having the ability to really define the future experience of a company."

Q6Biggest challenge - role

Project Management

Prioritization

Decision-Making

1:33

"The biggest challenge in my role is juggling multiple priorities, multiple requests, everything that might come into a product manager's plate."

Q8Who thrives in industry

Problem-Solving

Project Management

Communication

1:21

"it's, it's almost like a soft skillset that you develop over time. Um, but the ability to, to do that I think is really rewarded in this industry."

Q9Wish known before - industry

Career Development

Overcoming Challenges

Project Management

1:40

"I was asking myself, do I have the skills to be in product management?"

Q10Entry-level positions

Sales

Consulting

Business Strategy

1:51

"I started more on the sales side. I think there's lots of sales development jobs that are out there."

Q11Significant lesson - career

Visionary Leadership

Project Management

Entrepreneurship

1:34

"doing my own thing allowed me to get so many experiences that not like one single job in another company would've given me."

Q12College ideas for success

Communication

Networking

Career Exploration

2:41

"I really took the liberal arts education to heart. What I mean by this is taking all sorts of courses outside your core major."

Q13How identity impacted career

Communication

Overcoming Challenges

Cultural Awareness

2:35

"Recognizing your, where you come from and how that impacts success in your role, I think is very, very important."