Product managers need to learn how to tap user needs, manage product life cycle, define product functions, output requirements documents and prototype drawings, communicate and coordinate with various departments, optimize product experience according to data and user feedback, analyze competing products, understand the industry and follow up the project progress.

The product managers of big companies and small companies are responsible for slightly different jobs. For example, a large company will have a separate interaction designer position, so most of the prototype logic flow is given to the interaction designer.

In small companies, product managers have to undertake some interactive design work, such as drawing prototypes, information architecture, process combing and so on.

Daily work of product manager

Requirements exploration, requirements definition, product design, development and implementation, effect tracking, iterative optimization.

At different stages of the project, the product manager's work focus is different, and the required ability is also different. Of course, product managers have different requirements for different years. Different companies have different design processes and slightly different work contents.

Core skills are essential skills in daily work.

Including demand analysis, data analysis, competing product analysis, business analysis, industry analysis, demand collection, product design, version management, user research and so on. These skills are professional skills that we must master.

Product managers at different stages have different requirements for mastering skills and different emphases.

For example, for product managers who have just entered the business, because most of the work is in the implementation stage, they pay more attention to demand analysis, product design, data analysis and so on.

Senior product managers will focus more on business analysis, industry analysis, version management and other strategic related work.