How did you become a product manager?

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I didn't study to be a programmer, but it so happened that my department had a strong commercial structure that did custom research for large companies. From my third year, I started supporting several university websites. Gradually, this became my main specialty.


I spent a year in graduate school and realized that I was not interested in doing science, but was more attracted to everything related to the Internet. So I got a position as a junior QA specialist in a St. Petersburg company that was developing large projects for the UK market.


I knew how development and technologies were organized, so I easily got the position. singapore email list From a tester, I moved to management and became the head of a small testing group. When the company grew and the product leader was promoted to CEO, I headed the project, since I worked in it from scratch.


Then there was "Kolesa, Krysha, Market" - a hybrid of auto.ru and "Ciana". I came there as the head of the web department. At that time, the company was half an offline business. We grew quickly, began to use a product approach: we thought of the service not as a website, but as a product that solves the client's problems.

In this company, I first became a product manager, and then CPO and managed all products with a team of products.