My Career Journey as a Product Manager

Nobody's path into product management is straight. In the very first Product Tuesdays, three product managers working in Nigerian fintech trace how they actually got here: a data analyst who got bored of the numbers and asked her MD for something else, a broadcaster-turned-project-manager who thought product management wasn't for her and nearly went into front-end development, and the detours, pauses and restarts in between.

Then the room takes over: impostor syndrome and what to do when you don't feel good enough, moving from project management to product management, how much technical depth a PM really needs, and what the job is at its core ("you are not the god of the product — you are there to bring masterminds together"). If you are new to product, or trying to grow in it, start here.

Hosted by Emmanuel Ogunsola (@iyanu_emmanuel), with co-host Tobechukwu Otuokere (@Toby_py).

Recorded live as an X Space on Tuesday 9 August 2022. The Space dropped a few minutes in and was restarted; this is the full conversation.