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Product Manager Interview: Mark Dunkley, former Product Manager at Shopify

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• published: 26 Nov 2014
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Begin your Product Manager career today by taking this free mini-course: http://firstpmjob.com/ (don't procrastinate, just commit to it!) Product management feels like the right career for you, but you have this nagging feeling that you don't have the complete picture. Instead of spending hours reading online, hear directly from a former product manager about their job experience. Mark Dunkley shares his experience as the first product manager at Shopify and what he does today as a Design Lead at Shopify. In this interview, Mark goes beyond the product manager job description and goes into detail about what his day to day was like. Mark also answers the question about how technical you need to be to be a product manager and how being too technical can actually hamper progress. Because Mark started his own company and also worked for himself as a freelancer, I wanted to know how transferable are the skills between product management and being an entrepreneur. Mark emphasizes that the skills and interests are highly transferable because product managers, designers and entrepreneurs are all alike in that they all care a little bit extra in the user experience. Skills that Mark learned on the job as a product manager that he finds highly useful when starting your own products include time management and establishing a roadmap. Mark also taps into the difficult parts of product management including dealing with ambiguity and working on projects that span months. If you want to be updated on future product manager interviews, subscribe to this channel. I add new interviews once a month.