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A Day in the Life of a Product Manager

Regan Davis
November 09, 2021

A Day in the Life of a Product Manager

Interested in a role in Product Management? This talk will cover the day to day responsibilities of a Product Manager role at a high-growth startup, SpotHero, as well as what traits make a successful PM.

Regan Davis

November 09, 2021
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  1. a day* in the life of a product manager regan

    davis *more like a month-ish
  2. regan davis product leader from chicago, il HISTORY Sr. Director

    of Product @ SpotHero Teacher @ 1871 Advisor @ Topstep regandavis.com VP of Product @ Jellyvision VP of Product @ info.com
  3. regandavis.com make your user successful • What is the heart

    of this idea? • How does the user derive value from this idea? • What is the smallest piece of work we can do to capture that value? (credit: Teresa Torres — "How you Build Matters", Product Talk)
  4. what makes our user successful? “And it kind of remembers

    my history. So I know I can just book very easily from there.”
  5. regandavis.com “Double down on the core of what makes your

    product great.” —Emmet Shear, Co-Founder of Twitch
  6. regandavis.com • faster, easier customer service • quicker booking •

    personalization & convenience The key to better experiences for our app users is to remember them.
  7. regandavis.com “The only difference between screwing around and science is

    writing down your results.“ — Adam Savage, Mythbusters
  8. “Experiment with multiple solutions. When one of those experiments is

    a failure, you're not starting from scratch again.” —Shannon Rashedi, Sr. PM, Mobile regandavis.com
  9. put the user at the heart of your ideas use

    analytics to measure if your guess was right keep learning — talk to your users often focus on who measure what ask why regandavis.com