Navigating the shift from engineering to product - Anuja More (Product Lead, Meta, Whatsapp) at Meta

The Product Experience

Join our conversation with Anuja More, Product Lead at Meta. We delve into the lessons she learned while transitioning from engineering to product management. In our discussion, Anuja unveils the change required to switch from a mindset fixated on technical hurdles to one adept at unravelling customer needs, underscoring the vitality of curiosity and problem-solving along the way.
Featured Links: Follow Anuja on LinkedIn and Instagram | Meta | 'How I Moved from Engineering into Product Management' feature by Victor Kosonen at Mind The Product

Our Hosts
Lily Smith enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Chief Product Officer at BBC Maestro, and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Lily also founded ProductTank Bristol and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

Randy Silver is a Leadership & Product Coach and Consultant. He gets teams unstuck, helping you to supercharge your results. Randy's held interim CPO and Leadership roles at scale-ups and SMEs, advised start-ups, and been Head of Product at HSBC and Sainsbury’s. He participated in Silicon Valley Product Group’s Coaching the Coaches forum, and speaks frequently at conferences and events. You can join one of communities he runs for CPOs (CPO Circles), Product Managers (Product In the {A}ether) and Product Coaches. He’s the author of What Do We Do Now? A Product Manager’s Guide to Strategy in the Time of COVID-19. A recovering music journalist and editor, Randy also launched Amazon’s music stores in the US & UK.

Chapters

1. Transitioning From Engineering to Product (00:00:00)

2. Transitioning Into Product Management (00:07:25)

3. Paths to Product Management (00:20:47)

4. Introduction to Product Experience Podcast (00:39:06)