Episodes
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ In this episode of "How to Product?", ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Arjav Jain⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, the host talks to ⁠Minal Mehta about building for next billion users, career growth and feedback. This episode covers the following: 🚀 Insights on building for the next billion users in rapidly changing markets and the mindset that's required for the same. 😃 How employees can create opportunities to seek...
Published 10/28/23
Published 10/28/23
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ In this episode of "How to Product?", ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Arjav Jain⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, the host talks to ⁠Surbhi Gupta about designing with delight. This episode covers the following: 👉 Insights on how product teams can effectively validate if the customer problem they are aiming to solve is genuine and aligns with the needs of their target audience 😃 What "Design with Delight" means in the context of...
Published 10/13/23
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ In this episode of "How to Product?", ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Arjav Jain⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, the host talks to Shailvi Wakhlu about product analytics. The conversation begins at providing an overview of what product analytics entails and how it impacts the role of a PM. Shailvi then breaks down leading and lagging indicators and explains why each one is important and also provides a way in which you can choose...
Published 09/29/23
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠⁠⁠⁠ In this episode (S04E04) of "How to Product?", ⁠⁠⁠⁠Arjav Jain⁠⁠⁠⁠, the host talks to Anuj Rathi, SVP of Revenue and Growth including Product at Swiggy. To start with, Anuj highlights some differences in product management in a marketplace or e-commerce vs a traditional software/product. Arjav digs deeper into something Anuj said "Growth is effective when the product is priced right"...
Published 04/27/23
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠⁠⁠ In this episode (S04E03) of "How to Product?", ⁠⁠⁠Arjav Jain⁠⁠⁠, the host talks to ⁠⁠⁠Mithun Madhusudhan⁠⁠, previously Head of Product, Candidate Engagement at Apna. Mithun speaks his mind about something he said previously - "From experience, launching a product is only 20% of the job. The hard work starts afterward." He talks in detail about a product launch. We then talk about...
Published 04/19/23
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - ⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠⁠ In this episode (S04E02) of "How to Product?", ⁠⁠Arjav Jain⁠⁠, the host talks to ⁠⁠Anupam Sarda⁠, VP of Product Strategy and Operations at HighRadius. Anupam starts off by talking about what HighRadius does and what Product Management is really about. He shares some wonderful frameworks for prioritization and how goes about doing it personally especially asking yourself - "am I spending...
Published 04/13/23
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - ⁠https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg⁠ In this episode (S04E01) of "How to Product?", ⁠Arjav Jain⁠, the host talks to ⁠Tejas Singh, Director of Product Manager at ShareChat. Tejas talks about how different product management is in the creator space / social media space compared to the fintech, ecommerce or edtech industry - how building for "Bhaarat" is different traditionally. He goes on talk to about roadmaps - why they're...
Published 03/29/23
Step into the shoes of a Product Manager with our Live Program. Apply now! 🚀 - https://lnkd.in/d9XStqg In this episode (S03E05) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host talks to Shyvee Shi, Product Manager at LinkedIn. Shyvee talks about what transferable skills she picked up from each of her roles that have shaped her to be a better product manager today. She also discusses the importance of solving the right problem and suggests some ways to do that. She also addresses influencing...
Published 07/28/22
Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://bit.ly/3wXc1Kd In this episode (S03E04) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host talks to Mikhil Innani, CEO at Apollo Finvest. Mikhil has made transitions across roles and industries in his career and he breaks down what helped him do this, zoom out and zoom in and be successful in any role he took up. Mikhil also spilled the beans on product growth and what his secret goto KPIs are to measure the right kind of growth. He...
Published 06/17/22
Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://bit.ly/3wXc1Kd   In this episode (S03E03) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host talks to Deepak Singh, Sr. Director of Product at Unacademy about what success looks like and how to choose a north star metric and then go on to talk about the importance of technology for PMs. The discussion starts at the process of defining a North Star Metric and what characteristics it should have. Deepak provides an example from MX...
Published 06/03/22
Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://bit.ly/3wXc1Kd   In this episode (S03E02) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host talks to Kirti Varun, CPO at Meesho about the journey to Product Market Fit.   The discussion starts at what an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is and how to define the scope of your MVP - with real examples from Meesho and Farmeesho this discussion become super relatable and has clear takeaways. Kirti then details out how to move from an MVP to a...
Published 05/19/22
Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://bit.ly/3wXc1Kd In this episode (S03E01) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host speaks to Teressa Torres, Product Discovery Coach and the author of Continuous Discovery Habits. Teressa has coached numerous organizations across the world on how to get product discovery right. In this conversation, Teressa first explains what product discovery is and goes on to do that in a super simple manner. Arjav asks Teressa about how to...
Published 05/05/22
Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://bit.ly/3wXc1Kd In this episode (S02E05) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host speaks to Aatir Abdul Rauf, Director of Marketing and Product Management at VFairs. Aatir has spent a large part of his career leading both marketing and product teams at various organizations and he talks about how to become a better product manager by picking up lessons from a marketer's playbook - know what the customers want, why does the...
Published 11/05/21
Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://bit.ly/3wXc1Kd In this episode (S02E04) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host speaks to Anshumani Ruddra, GPM at Google. Anshumani has been an author in the past and he breaks down the structure of a good story. He speaks at length about the importance of writing for product managers and how PMs can become better writers. He then talks about the importance of speaking up and asking for more work - something that helped him...
Published 10/14/21
Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://bit.ly/3wXc1Kd   In this episode (S02E03) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host speaks to Jackie Bavaro, Co-author of Cracking the PM Interview and Cracking the PM Career. Jackie was also previously Head of Product Management at Asana. Jackie talks about the importance of rapid experimentation and how to differentiate between intuition and bias, something that we product managers get caught up in. She speaks about how...
Published 10/07/21
Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://bit.ly/3wXc1Kd In this episode (S02E02) of "How to Product?", Arjav Jain, the host speaks to Amit Fulay, VP Product at Microsoft. Amit brings in a wealth of experience as a product veteran who has successfully built products for the top companies in the world - Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Amit speaks his mind on how the product landscape has evolved over the last decade (of course, for the better!). He also speaks at length...
Published 09/30/21
Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://bit.ly/3wXc1Kd Welcome to Season 2 of How to Product. In this season, we'll focus on bringing in leaders from the industry and dig deeper into the world of product management.  In Episode 1, the host, Arjav Jain, Senior PM at BYJU'S speaks with Kanav Arora, SVP Engineering at Urban Company about how engineering looks at product management and how to best work together. Kanav breaks down computer programming, computer...
Published 08/27/21
Apply for the next cohort of PM School's Live Program - https://bit.ly/3wXc1Kd In this episode, the host Arjav Jain speaks with Anushka Pathak, Associate PM at Flipkart about the APM role. Anushka tells us that the APM role is very similar to the PM role and has 5 critical aspects to it: problem-solving, product thinking, execution, go to market and long term strategic muscle building. APMs are involved in small iterative changes while also owning some big-ticket items under the...
Published 07/31/21
In this episode, our host Arjav Jain speaks to Khanjan Desai, Senior PM at PayPal about the challenges she faces every day as a PM and how to overcome them. Khanjan details out a framework that works for her to solve problems - GAISPS framework. Arjav speaks about some nuances to prioritization and how it's one of the top problems PMs face in their organizations. Khanjan goes on to tell us how an MBA from a top school like ISB helped her crack the PM role as well.  In the product bytes...
Published 07/20/21
In this episode, your host Arjav Jain speaks to Shravan Tickoo about how to go about your first 90 days in a new company as a PM and how to ensure you're setting yourself up for success. Shravan and Arjav also discuss how to tackle imposter syndrome which is so common not just in this role but across in the industry, how to build your own personal brand, how to look at yourself and your career as a product and finally Shravan leaves us with some tips on how to break into the PM role. This...
Published 07/04/21
In this episode the host Arjav talks to Nikunj Sharma, Co-founder at PM School about his journey into product management, what are the top 3 things to do while you're thinking of applying for this role, how to choose the right companies and what do recruiters look for while shortlisting resumes in the industry. The host also shares his journey about from a software engineer to a product management within the same organization and how he went about navigating through the challenges there. This...
Published 06/16/21
In this episode the host Arjav Jain talks to Ashank Bhandari, Senior Product Manager at Amazon about who a Product Manager really is and what does a day/month look like in a PMs life. There were interesting stories, references to cricket and Indian sweets and a lot of laughter! Tune in now.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howtoproduct/message
Published 06/03/21
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Published 06/02/21