Supporting slides for my talk on how I transitioned from a academic PhD to a role as Product manager in a software startup.

1. From PhD to Product Manager
– Life in a startup
Charlotte Whicher
charlotte@repositive.io

2. The things I like
1.Experimenting and questioning
2.Building 'stuff'
3.Working with people
4.Feeling like I'm making a difference
5.Being an 'authority'

3. My journey so far
Research Research Research ResearchTravel Startup 
https://blog.repositive.io/from-phd-to-product-management-life-in-a-start-up-2/

4. The things I like
1.Experimenting and questioning
2.Building 'stuff'
3.Working with people
4.Feeling like I'm making a difference
5.Being an 'authority'

5. The bigger picture
Copied from ‘The illustrated guide to a PhD’ http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

6. What skills does a PhD give you?
Soft skills:
• Communication
• Self-motivation
• Team working
• Independence
• Decision making
• Critical thinking
• Agility in the face of adversity
• Resilience
Hard skills:
• Making and giving presentations
• Analysing data
• Genomic data workflows
• Basic coding

7. Warning!
You will have to apply
for a lot of jobs and
you will have to learn
to deal with rejection

8. My journey so far
Research Research Research ResearchTravel Startup 
https://blog.repositive.io/from-phd-to-product-management-life-in-a-start-up-2/

9. Repositive
Fiona Nielsen
Adrian Alexa
CO-FOUNDER & CTO
FOUNDER & CEO

10. Repositive – solving problems for researchers
A platform to make human genomic data
accessible for research
MAKE DATA
DISCOVERABLE
ACCESS
IT FAST
MAXIMIZE
REUSE

11. What is a product manager
Copied from Martin Eriksson http://www.mindtheproduct.com/2011/10/what-exactly-is-a-product-manager/

12. Lab Vs Startup
Working in a
startup isn’t all that
different from
working in a lab

13. Repositive – Table football

14. Repositive – Pizza

15. Repositive – Gimmicky jumpers

16. Lab Vs Startup

17. This is just the beginning…
Charlotte Whicher
charlotte@repositive.io
Todays slides:
https://www.slideshare.net/CharlotteWhicher
Blog post about my career journey:
https://medium.com/@CWhicher/from-phd-to-
product-management-life-in-a-startup-34cf4c0f7284
Other blogging:
https://blog.repositive.io/author/charlotte-whicher/