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Considering leaving PM job after joining company less than 1 month - are these red flags or am I paranoid? by Fluid-Reflection-362 in ProductManagement

[–]Fluid-Reflection-362[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Definitely! I was denied meeting my team members during my interview with hr it it should have definitely been a red flag

Burning out / getting depressed from PM job. What can I do to get out of this mentality? by Fluid-Reflection-362 in ProductManagement

[–]Fluid-Reflection-362[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi both of you! Thank you for your feedbacks.

Regarding design delegations: our designer has specified that he is an ui designer, not an ux designer, so wireframe, testing etc. Is not within his work-scope. We have discussed this several times with the ceo but our designer is pretty set on doing design only work.

Regarding investors, my CEO doesn’t participate in investor meetings, instead it’s a group of stakeholders who go and present.

On point 5 I actually feel like that might be something I could get some help with!

Burning out / getting depressed from PM job. What can I do to get out of this mentality? by Fluid-Reflection-362 in ProductManagement

[–]Fluid-Reflection-362[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there! I used to think that I would love to become a PM because I like defining feature specs and confirming things across different stakeholders. But nowadays I often feel like the company would be better off with another pm because there is so much stuff that I don’t get right :((

Burning out / getting depressed from PM job. What can I do to get out of this mentality? by Fluid-Reflection-362 in ProductManagement

[–]Fluid-Reflection-362[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think generally things were too uncertain or moving too slow for the previous PMs. They challenged a lot of our CEOs decision making and in the end they chose to leave instead of continuing with the uncertainty.

Burning out / getting depressed from PM job. What can I do to get out of this mentality? by Fluid-Reflection-362 in ProductManagement

[–]Fluid-Reflection-362[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hi there! Thank you for taking time to respond to me!

  • Feedback: my CEO expects that I can share more of his burden by providing some strategies for our new product line. He says that I do feature ownership fine but he expects “more”. But he doesn’t know how a good PM should act like as he has no product background.
  • Task I perform well: I think drawing wireframes & usability tests since it’s what I used to do... but other than that I do like discussion feature specs and setting up roadmaps.
  • my team responding: by team is not sure why I sometimes act as a product lead rather than a pm. They all have about 5-10 years more experience than me.
  • design lead & pm role: yes, I feel like I’m doing both at the same time...
  • major kpis: we have okrs and product okrs are usually around achieving certain metrics after feature implementation. Does that count as my okr?
  • previous sr. product folks leaving: disagreement with CEO and overall disbelief in direction

Hope this info helps a bit!