Tech Strategy & Product

Ex-McKinsey EM, week 1 as a Director at a SaaS company. My hiring manager was let go before I started, my projects got absorbed by a peer who won't hand them off, the SVP is hands off, and a new VP jo...

Are labor market tests successful these days for PERM in big tech?

I'm a program manager & want to expand my career surface area by becoming more technical. Many people say technical program managers don't need to know how to code, but need to understand it. I'm try...

Managing a team while still doing a chunk of individual contributor work because of staffing gaps is getting old fast. It feels like two roles with no clear line between them. At what point do you sto...

I’m early in my career and trying to decide whether to specialize in one area like cloud or stay broad across different strategy projects. Right now I touch a bit of everything but don’t go deep anywh...

I’ve been offered a path into Product Manager, but I’d be giving up the part I’m strongest in which is data and analysis. It feels like starting over in a different skill set. Do you take that kind of...

I’m 2 years in and starting to feel like I’m mostly executing on other people’s ideas instead of actually shaping direction. My manager says strategy comes with time, but I don’t see when that shift h...

I’m being told I need to be more strategic to move up, but most of my time is still spent on sprint work and unblocking the team. If I step back from that, things slow down and it reflects on me. How ...

Anyone have any insight into WLB for Principal Product Manager (IC5) roles at Microsoft ? I expect it’s going to vary but curious to get different perspectives

Leadership asked me to recommend whether we should build a capability in-house or buy a vendor solution, and I know whichever option I choose will upset one group internally. The build option helps lo...

I’m being asked to build a 2-year roadmap, but priorities have already shifted 3 times in the last 6 weeks depending on which exec is involved. It feels like anything I produce will be outdated quickl...

Customer interviews say one thing, usage data shows another, and both sides feel confident in their interpretation. The team is split on which direction to follow for the next iteration. When qualitat...

We have 3 dashboards showing slightly different versions of the same metric, and leadership debates which one is “right” every week instead of making decisions. Each dashboard is owned by a different ...

We launched a feature 3 months ago that leadership pushed hard, but adoption is sitting under 10% and sales rarely mentions it. Everyone still talks about it like a success because of how visible the ...

I am on a project where the client keeps asking for a long-term roadmap, but internally they still change priorities every week depending on who spoke loudest in the last meeting. It feels impossible ...

We spent months building a feature because leadership believed it would help close bigger clients, but now sales barely mentions it in calls and adoption internally is lukewarm too. The uncomfortable ...

A stakeholder keeps bringing new ideas after priorities are already set, and every suggestion comes with some version of this should be quick. None of it is huge alone, but together it keeps shifting ...

My background is mostly internal strategy work, and I’m realizing that external-facing strategy roles often seem to favor people who came from consulting. I can do the work, but I’m not sure if that g...

A lot of people I work with have MBAs or consulting backgrounds, and I’m starting to wonder how much that matters if I want to keep moving up in strategy. My work is strong, but I notice certain backg...

A lot of my week now is spent trying to separate urgent requests from things that are just coming from whoever has the most visibility internally. The hard part is both get framed as equally important...