BEING A REMOTE PRODUCT MANAGER - WHAT IT MEANS
BEING A REMOTE PRODUCT MANAGER - WHAT IT MEANS
There’s not much of a difference between what a remote product manager does when compared to someone who works from the office. In fact, you’re probably already doing part of your work remotely. Like conducting user interviews or holding meetings with your stakeholders. Remote PMs have the exact same roles as their office-based counterparts.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE DUTIES A PRODUCT MANAGER HAS:
- Lead the development of the product and its strategy across multiple lifecycles
- Discover user requirements through user interviews
- Develop the positioning and vision of a product
- Use a variety of tools to produce wireframes and mockups, gather feedback, and deliver results
- Establish clear timelines and feedback patterns
- Define quantitative and qualitative metrics and use these to evaluate the success of the product and review delivered work to ensure alignment with the specifications
- Build actionable user stories
- Create and manage the product roadmap
- Maintain consistent client and stakeholder communication
- Partner with other teams to ensure a unified product development and delivery process
- Lead the product team and take full responsibility for its actions
- Create new feature announcements and content.
More and more companies are starting to consider switching to distributed teams and even accepting remote workers for highly skilled professionals.
WHY WORKING REMOTELY MIGHT NOT BE RIGHT FOR YOUR PRODUCT MANAGEMENT CAREER
Just like the skills of an in-office and remote product management expert are similar, there are a couple of personality traits and habits that will influence whether or not you’re the right fit for working remotely.
To get it out of the way, it’s safe to say that bad communicators will never make it as remote employees. These are those people who can’t take feedback, always have to contradict other team members, and just don’t want to answer your inquiries on time.
Product management is fast-paced. Especially in small teams who are commonly the ones looking for remote members anyway. So communication needs to be done in detail and accurately even when you’re not face-to-face with the rest of the team.
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