16. The path
● Worked as SDE in fortune
500 companies
● Transitioned to PM role in a
Startup
17. The path
● Worked as SDE in fortune
500 companies
● Transitioned to PM role in a
Startup
● Grew as a PM in IoT space
● Today, leading Alexa cloud-
based service features
18. Amazon Alexa
● More than 100 million
Alexa-enabled devices
● More than 150 product
with built-in Alexa
● 80, 000+ Skills
33. Go do!
1. Experience tech yourself
2. Find PM skills you haven't got and
projects to acquire them
3. Build great products and bright
career for a future beyond Mobile
35. www.productschool.com
Part-time Product Management, Coding, Data Analytics, Digital
Marketing, UX Design and Product Leadership courses in San
Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Santa Monica, Los Angeles,
Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Denver, Orange County,
Seattle, Bellevue, Washington DC, Toronto, London and Online
Editor's Notes
There is a lot of text on the first slide. Can we just state the courses we offer and not the all the cities? Then on the next slide, instead of listing the cities, say "100+ cities" and have dots all over the map? We're on all continents! This will demonstrate our global reach.
Let's add the Job Portal. Instead of Slack having it's own slide, let's combine it to also include the Jobs Portal. We can make it look nice with both images side by side, maybe with the heading "Free resources". We can revise the script for organizers/sales people to say something like, "As you checked in we sent you an email to join our online communities, events, and to apply for product management jobs. As members of the Product School community we'd like to provide you with these resources at your disposal."
Hey Everyone, my name is Vish and I lead Amazon Alexa product management for Prompts and multimodal skill developer tech.
Today we will areas of Growth for the products you are building or want to build and for the career you want to build and nurture beyond Mobile and Web.
Today we will focus on three topics 1, 2, and 3
Let’s first look at my story from 10 years ago on how I landed in Alexa.
We provided complete IoT platform for consumer and commercial businesses to easily build and deploy their connected products.
And today as part of Amazon Alexa, I help build first party and third party connected products with voice first experience.
We provided complete IoT platform for consumer and commercial businesses to easily build and deploy their connected products.
And today as part of Amazon Alexa, I help build first party and third party connected products with voice first experience.
- Let’s quickly look at my current passion - Alexa
- Mobile took time, but Voice based experience is really taking off at a rapid pace
- As of early 2019,... <then read of trends, with sub points for each trend below>
- For #1, these are not pre-installed but customers chose to buy devices with Alexa
- For #2, focus on privacy and security is front and center
- For #2 and #3, we are focused on making it super easy for anybody to make an Alexa gadget, really easy
Now let’s look at a World 10 years from now based on what I think?
Apart from Smart Home, IoT, Voice services, and Wearables; we have AI/ML, Blockchain, and AR/VR technology trends where we are barely scratching the surface on what’s possible. We in the early days on unlocking huge growth potential by building products what customers love in the process building personal career in the product management space.
- We already saw Amazon Alexa and the rapid growth we have in terms of Alexa-enabled endpoints and developer traction.
- Go through each use cases
- Autonomous cars and supply chain being oriented for that world. Eg: Samsung acquiring Harman. (Waymo)
- Amazon launched Echo Auto, which unlocks voice based rich conversation in the automobile. Recently, I launched a feature to enable skill developers to develop multimodal experiences for Cars.
- Has anyone heard about Pebble watches? I am one of early adopters of these watches, they were fabulous especially their app ecosystem. I even had created a watch face with family picture. Now Apple has taken it to next level with various sensors and apps. (Snapchat Glasses and Bionic Lens)
- Google Duplex can now make real phone calls (Duplex)
- Games VR es which take you to a new world using virtual reality headsets (Stadia and Oculus)
I strongly believe we are just scratching the surface for all these technologies and other industry trends.
Today you might be expert on Mobile apps, but think about what’s the gap?
Specifically,
What’s your current focus?
What’s the gap?
Which trend(s)?
Have you done interesting competitive analysis? Or Market research? Or Pricing models?
Is that a skill you lack?
Have you tried various technologies?
Have you sat in an autonomous car?
For on ground experience? How was it? How can you improve it?
Did you try a VR goggle?
I did it and was ready to throw up. I came out with my head spinning around. But the important point is what’s possible 10 years from now?
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How are you going to build that skill for the future?
Current focus, goals, Identified gaps, and then build those skills
[Opt]: Build products and personal career beyond mobile
Phase 3: Sell yourself
Phase 4: Interview
How are you going to build that skill for the future?
Current focus, goals, Identified gaps, and then build those skills
[Opt]: Build products and personal career beyond mobile
Phase 3: Sell yourself
Phase 4: Interview