Vikrama Dhiman
Head of Product, Gojek. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Vikrama Dhiman leads product, design, program management, and research across Indonesia, Singapore, and India at Gojek. He has over 16 years of experience building internet products and consulting with Fortune 500 companies.
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Everything Vikrama Dhiman said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Dhiman: Master complementary technical skills before focusing on product strategy
“My advice is if you're coming from design and research background, then you pick data or take. If you're coming from a data or tech background, then you pick design and research, and that gives you the maximum leverage because that's a skill that you will nece…”
Dhiman: Mid-senior PMs must still personally write PRDs and notes
“I don't think, especially when you're starting off, that's
a very, very good
Think even when you are mid senior, I don't think that's a very, very good thing.
You have to have to be able to produce these artifacts, which are product artifacts.
Even if there ar…”
Dhiman outlines three essential operational tenets for PM collaboration
“There are three tenets that I define in working well as a product manager with others. Number one is raise difficult issues without being difficult to work with. Bring out important topics without drawing importance to yourself. And finally, you are in charge …”
Dhiman: PMs use labels like 'high agency' to excuse brashness
“I started understanding these things are not just signaling. They are also anti-signaling. They are like, oh, I'm high agency, so it's sometimes ok if I'm a little brash, if I cut corners somewhere, if I am, if I sometimes come across as a little rude to some …”
Dhiman: Product managers can never achieve full mastery in soft skills
“For skills which are softer in nature, like communication and collaboration and community, those are skills that you will work on all your life. You'll never achieve anywhere near two or five on five on those ever.”
Dhiman: Rapid-rising PMs excel across all three 'W' framework dimensions
“The really strong product managers are good at usually two or three, two of the three things. The ones who rise, and when they are rising, they are performing well on all the three axes.”
Dhiman: PMs shifting to outcomes must continue honing output craft
“The mistake that I see a lot of product managers make is they start operating in either output or outcomes. And when you are transitioning to outcomes, it's very important that you continue to still hone your craft on outputs.”
Dhiman: Being on a successful product does not guarantee PM career growth
“You put the coolest product areas, your product area is successful, and that automatically guarantees your growth.
It doesn't.
You have to also show that, yes, you were a useful contributor to having that particular impact.”
Dhiman: Operating model is the critical lever for senior PM advancement
“Finally, we have what's your operating model, which I feel is the most important thing which you have to have to focus if you are going from mid-senior to senior level. This is essentially about communication, collaboration, organizational skills, and communit…”
Dhiman: PMs who turn inputs into strategic choices advance faster
“Some product managers, what they bring to the table is arguments, what they bring to the table are debates, what they bring to the table are pushbacks, while others Are able to channelize the questions, channelize the inputs, channelize the direction, and conv…”
Dhiman: Mid-senior PMs stall when blaming organizations instead of growing
“As you start becoming mid-senior, I see the conversation shifts from what can I do? How am I learning? How am I growing? To: Why is the organization not doing this for me? Why can that stakeholder not change this thing about themselves? Why do I not get to wor…”
Dhiman: PMs get unique insights by cross-pairing across every discipline
“It's not about you standing alone. It's you always collaborating and pairing with someone else, but you are the only one who's pairing with everyone else, and therefore you have that unique insight which no one else in the team will have.”
Dhiman was passed over for promotion due to weaker execution
“In one of my previous roles, there were two product areas that were important for the organization. My product area ended up being the center and focus of the organization. Yet the product manager who was chosen to lead the area when it became big wasn't me. I…”
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