Jyotsna
Manikantan
Director of Product Management at ADP
"The Secret Guide to Drive Career Growth in Product Management"
"The Secret Guide to Drive Career Growth in Product Management"
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"The Secret Guide to Drive Career Growth in Product Management"
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Session: The Secret Guide to Drive Career Growth in Product Management
Did you know that product management is a relatively new career path and, in many companies, growth options for product managers may not be well-defined? Career is a journey even for PMs and it is natural to aspire to seek change and new challenges to learn, grow, and deliver results.The Time to Act is Now and let’s build on our present to design our next:
- Let’s create visibility of your work, your current business impact to get the sponsorship for your executive education.
- Next, we will dive into the different opportunities in product management at the team, feature, platform, API, front end consumer facing for a cross-functional experience.
- Let’s also review skills required to become a customer advocate, market aware to adapt, results driven outcome ninja, builder and influencer with focus to measure what matters.
Gaining awareness of the possibilities, we can create a plan to intentionally pursue a focus area to transition into the next role with scalable skills and online learning to accelerate our product management career growth. Come, let’s think like a leader and lead our career as the owner with our expertise. Ready, set, let’s grow.
Key Takeaways
- Be inspired to invest in their career growth in product management with renewed enthusiasm
- Be driven to create a development plan that can be used to initiate crucial career conversations with their managers and mentors.
- Learn broader concepts that move the needle for their leadership and see the bigger picture (beyond delivering a feature and user stories)
- Build visibility of work through leadership skills to help grow and mentor younger tenure PMS.
- Find the confidence and develop a growth mindset to seek out opportunities with tenacity and perseverance
Bio
Jyotsna Manikantan is a Patent Holder, Innovator, and Director of Product Management at ADP driving strategic cross-functional initiatives with her innovative ideas and thought leadership. Jyotsna leads complex projects within their global organization for disruptive change transformation. Jyotsna is a two-time Grace Hopper Celebration speaker, Women in Tech Speaker, active volunteer in her community, and mentors’ students & mid-career professionals to pursue careers in STEM.In the 15th year at ADP and 18th year of her career, Jyotsna is a Board Member of ADP’s International Women’s Inclusion Network (iWIN) Business Resource Group for Corporate Social Responsibility. In this role, Jyotsna is working to create opportunities for associates to engage, equip, and empower women to learn, grow, and pay it forward. iWIN strives to provide growth resources and connections for ADP associates across the globe interested in career & professional development, expanding networks, supporting community-based women’s organizations, and gaining access to mentoring.
Jyotsna holds a bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from the University of Madras and is a strong believer of continuous learning to advance her career. Jyotsna is #WorkingFor innovation and talent growth through Diversity and Inclusion.
