Ep#13: Quincy K - Entering product/leaving product, and accelerating your career - from a Shopify PM

Update: 2022-03-26

Description

Quincy is a senior product manager at Shopify. Previously, Quincy worked as a product manager at SSENSE and eventually switched over to become the head of personal styling, managing a team of +30 people. In this episode we talk about:

Entering product from a consulting background

The benefits of switching teams as a product manager and being a generalist

Exiting the product role into a completely new domain

How to learn when constantly context switching

Being a generalist vs. specialist PM

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Ep#13: Quincy K - Entering product/leaving product, and accelerating your career - from a Shopify PM

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Ep#13: Quincy K - Entering product/leaving product, and accelerating your career - from a Shopify PM

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Ep#13: Quincy K - Entering product/leaving product, and accelerating your career - from a Shopify PM