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Jun 2024
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172: Master Product Management Like a Ma...

Zach White
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What direction do you want to steer your career path? Are you at the wheel? Or in the back seat…

 

Listen now for how to drive results beyond engineering!

 

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When you’re ready, here are three ways I can help you build your engineering career:

 

1. Engineering Career Accelerator™️ Scorecard … foundational development actions and key points you can check, score, and apply immediately to stand out and excel at work.

 

2. Join us at Happy Hour … a limited-attendance LIVE monthly workshop where we dig deep into career growth strategies and provide 1:1 open coaching for you at the end of the session.

 

3. Work with me directly … start with a free chat and ensure it’s a great fit, then work with me and my team privately in our intensive coaching program, exclusively for engineers.

 

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In this episode, meet my good friend Amberdeep Aurora, an accomplished Product Management leader who knows how to speak geek… because he started where you did, engineering. 

 

Amberdeep is fluent in the languages of Consumer, Business and Technology. Besides being a utility patent holder, one of his products has won recognition for being Popular Science Magazine's 100 Greatest Innovations of 2021.  

 

We cover the key difference between outcomes and outputs, the 3 key trade offs to a product’s success, and how to make better decisions.

 

You may or may not see Product Management on your career ladder, but if you want to be a STEM professional capable of success and influence outside the walls of your cubicle, this conversation is critical.

 

Currently a Group Product Manager at Whirlpool Corp, a Global $20B World's Most Admired Company (ranked by Fortune, 14 years in a row), Amberdeep leads a team of product managers in improving the shopping experience across the company’s North American Portfolio of six Direct-to-Consumer eCommerce websites. 

 

So press play and let’s chat… it’s time to stop talking about solutions and start listening to our customer’s problems!

 

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