Claire Vo: PMs can accelerate careers by expanding into adjacent functions
Claire Vo · Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD) · Apr 7, 2024 · at 14:36
Claire Vo, Chief Product Officer at LaunchDarkly and former CPO at Color and Optimizely, discusses career advancement strategies for product leaders.
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“PM is such a generalist role It's okay to go a little left and a little right to go up. And, you know, I took this marketing growth role. That was actually my first director role. It wasn't only for product. It was for marketing and I had to learn marketing and I had to develop skills there, but it was a foundation on which I could build a broader sort of leadership career. And so I do think also looking left and right outside of your scope of product can be a really effective way to find growth opportunities.”
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