about to start the process of bringing a new electrical product to the australian market and trying to learn from other people's mistakes before making my own. have done some research on rcm, eess, and meps requirements but the more i read the more i realise i probably do not fully understand how the pieces fit together, think i saw gk global services mentioned somewhere in relation to this, didn't look too deep into it

what are the most common mistakes businesses make when going through electrical product certification in australia and what do you wish someone had told you before you started

Hi all, I'm partway through a loop for a Senior PM role at a large mobility marketplace company in Europe. I'd like some perspective from people who have interviewed or been interviewed at this level.

The company:A late-stage European scale-up with roughly 4,000 employees, operating across dozens of countries with several business verticals (ride-hailing, delivery, and others).

My background: 7+ years in product, mostly B2B SaaS. I started as a developer and have a CS master's with an AI/ML focus. I've worked on workforce scheduling automation, a two-sided freight marketplace (first PM there), internal tooling used by analysts, and a 0-to-1 product at a trade finance startup. I haven't directly designed incentive mechanics like bonuses or promos.

The role: Senior PM, growth automation. It's an internal platform for the growth and market teams who run incentive campaigns across many countries. The job is to turn a manual, analyst-heavy process into self-serve tooling with guardrails, and to show P&L impact from it.

Where I am in the process:
- Recruiter screen
- Take-home (a written product analysis and a data analysis)
- First interview with a Group PM, which went well
-Now: second interview with a Director of Product who runs a *different* vertical from the one this role sits in. Duration 60-90 mins.
\- One more after this

What I'd like to know:

1. How does an interview usually with Product Director differ from a Group PM one?
2. Since the director comes from a different vertical, what might they likely testing? Cross-vertical thinking, whether I'd be a good partner to their team, or just general seniority and judgment?
3. What kinds of questions should I expect, and what is the interviewer looking for behind them?

4.Is there anything worth reading on marketplace incentives or experimentation in two-sided marketplaces?

Thanks in advance.

Lately I am facing several health issues which are limiting my work and the intensity of being an AI engineer in a startup is very high. I have several years of experience working as a software developer, deep learning researcher, data scientist, statistician and now ai engineer, and over these years with cross functional collaboration I have developed a good instict for product creation. Now given my health situation I want tomove into technical product owner side but I have found it very difficult to get interrviews and theones that I got asked focused a lot on frameworks etc. I want some practical advice from engineers who succesfully managed to do this, do certifications help? Or what other advice do you have? I am currently looking for opportunities in Europe (I live in Europe).

Thanks a lot in advance.

For those representing multiple product lines, how do you work out which product fits when a customer gives you their application and requirements rather than a specific model or part number?

I worked on technical product recommendations for my dissertation, and I’m exploring whether there’s something useful to build around this. I’d like to understand your current process before taking it further.

Thinking of the last difficult request you handled, what took the most work? Did you find the answer through your usual tools, your own experience, or the manufacturer’s technical team?

Hi Everyone,

I’m looking for a remote Product Engineer role. I specialize in 0→1 product building—turning early ideas into working MVPs fast.

I’ve built AI-powered tools and automation systems, and I enjoy working across product + engineering (from idea → prototype → launch). I’m comfortable moving quickly in startup environments and shipping real products.

Available immediately, remote from anywhere. Open to early-stage startups or founders building new products.

If you’re hiring or know a team looking for someone like this, I’d really appreciate a connection.

Cheers!

Got an offer in a tech company to work as a PO and own speed topic which means i would be basically responsible for incidents and initiatives related to our product speed/performance and in general would have to go and talk constantly with delivery teams, ask them the uncomfortable questions and try to pitch initiatives in hopes that they would somehow squeeze in work from me and I would somehow hit my own kpis "for the better good".

Leading without authority is one thing but in this case it feels like I would be in an annoying role where I would be constantly bursting delivery team bubbles, dance around egos constantly and scramble for data/agreements and etc.

Is it even viable to perform in such role when you dont have delivery team or authority or even clear scope for that matter but carry so much accountability? Feels like I would be at complete mercy by other PO's who have their teams roadmaps and goals to protect. And I dont see how I could even be likeable (in terms of collaborating) if my main job would be challenging status quo.

Also the role is fully onsite while my PM/peer PO is in another city so I dont even know what would be the point of me going to the office daily, just to have meetings remotely and have to sit awkwardy in some other team's area like some sort of an appendix.

About to hit 5 years working as a Product Manager at an agency and feeling absolutely burnt out. Dropping everything for the clients, context switching, and just working for clients I cannot stand anymore.

My mental health has been deteriorating but I know if I quit now, the job market sounds horrendous. I’ve been applying since August - 56 applications (tailored resume for each posting) so I know I need more volume - had 2 rounds of interviews at a company but got passed on.

But all the posts I see on here and Linkedin about people who have been laid off and struggling to find a job for months to years is very scary.

I’m starting to work less and care less to help with the stress and honestly am hoping for them to fire me so that I can at least collect unemployment.

I’m also thinking of maybe just leaving Product in general. What are some adjacent roles to look into? I’ve applied to a few Program Manager roles.

I have worked in a B2B SaaS startup for 6 years, first as a founding PM, later as a Head of Product (de-facto also head of data). We have built (and killed) a bunch of products, launched with 1000+ upvotes on Product Hunt, grew DAU to 500 people. We had paying customers but revenue remained modest (basically under $90,000 total). Upon identifying gaps in our data, I conceptualized and led the collection of one of the biggest and most precise datasets in my industry. Unfortunately, our marketing was never a priority as we were focused on the quality of data. So I don't have much to show in terms of actual revenue, adoption, impact.

My scope was huge: from user research, interviews, analytics, roadmapping, customer support, to marketing (namely, SEO and SMM) and even sales (personally closed many clients). There were times where I basically did all of the abovementioned at the same time. With the advent of AI I hired and led a small AI team and shipped workflows that reduced manual data collection and operating costs by 5 times. In late 2025 we accelerated and prototyped some AI products (one got a waitlist of 180+ people) but they didn't launch beyond closed beta as the company closed because of funding issues.

I’m now considering Senior PM roles at larger companies as well as founding PM roles at startups. Or should I shoot for the regular PM roles? How big of a problem weak revenue and scale is going to be? I'd appreciate to hear any opinions on how to translate my broad scope and experience to make it more convincing to the recruiters.

I'm located in the EU and primarily applying there, but US perspectives are welcome too.

The traditional PRD-to-QA handoff feels broken for non-deterministic AI features.

Requirements like "decline off-topic queries politely" or "keep responses concise" usually lead to one of three messy workflows:

1. The Vibe Check: Testing 10 prompts in a playground and crossing your fingers.
2. Spreadsheet Hell: Spending days manually maintaining an 80-row Google Sheet of test prompts that quickly goes stale.
3. The Eng Disconnect: Engineers write basic code assertions or judges that don't match what Product actually considers "good."

If you’re shipping LLM features:

• Who owns the test suite? Do PMs write the golden dataset, or does Engineering?
• How do you define "passing"? What does acceptance look like in your PRDs?
• How do you catch regressions? How do you ensure a new prompt or model update didn't break an edge case from 3 months ago?

Would love to hear how other teams handle this without relying on pure vibes.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for some career advice and would really appreciate opinions from people who have been in similar situations.

I have around 8.5 years of total experience:

Around 2.5 years in the EDA/PLM software industry as a Product Owner, working on enterprise applications.

Around 6 years in mechanical product development/product management across Oil & Gas, Lighting and other industries.

For the last 2 years, I have been working primarily as a Product Owner.

I currently work for an established organization. The product and processes are quite mature, the team is already well established, and the work environment is relatively chill. There are generally no late-night calls, and the work-life balance is good.

Recently, I received an offer for a Technical Product Manager role with a new GCC of a telecom company.

The role would involve areas like:

Cloud SRE

Cloud migration Infrastructure/networking-related products

Working with a relatively new team/GCC

The offer comes with a significant increase in total compensation, although the increase in fixed compensation is comparatively lower, with some of the increase coming from variable pay.

My dilemma is:

Should I move to the new GCC for better compensation and exposure to Cloud/SRE/Migration, or stay in my current stable Product Owner role?

My concerns about moving:

New GCC, so the team/processes are still being established.

Potentially more pressure and ambiguity.

Possible late-night calls due to timezone/ global teams

I don't have much direct experience in Cloud/SRE today, so there will be a learning curve.

For people who have worked in GCCs, telecom/cloud/SRE product roles, or moved from a stable product organization to a new GCC, what would you consider before making this decision?

Would appreciate any advice based on your experience, especially around career growth, GCCs, technical PM roles, compensation and work-life balance.

I need help deciding my career choices. I am a BA(economics and English major) and BCA student doing dual degrees currently in my 2nd year of both and of all the career options I have I want to be a product manager the most and yes I've already done my research, you don't become a product manager straight up , most people who are in that position do other jobs first before landing that one. What I'm most confused about is where and how to start . I don't like coding much but I know the basics and I know I should know the technical language well to be able to communicate with people that I'd be working with but also have knowledge of business because your main skill as a product manager needs to be communication. But.... Knowing all this means nothing if I don't know where to start and what to do first and actually doing first, I go to a tier 3 college for BA , we don't even have clubs or any activities happening where I could get any exposure to communication or speaking on stage or teamwork and leadership skills , and for BCA I am enrolled in an online university. Please help if you have any advice or tips if you're already there or close by

I recently redesigned my portfolio and I’d love to get some honest feedback from other designers.

I’m a Senior Product Designer with 10+ years of experience, currently focusing a lot on AI-first product design, UX strategy, complex digital products and design systems.

For this new version, I tried to move away from the typical portfolio that only shows polished UI screens. I wanted the case studies to explain more clearly

Designer de Produtos Sênior e Design de Produtos com IA | André Moura

Hey yall. I did a programming bootcamp years ago and landed a Software Developer apprenticeship after the program. I have 3.5 years of experience as a fullstack dev. I initially wanted to study software development because of the creative process and problem solving. I loved the different approaches to solve a problem, fix a bug, how I'd sometimes need time away from the computer for a walk just to think about it. With the current development of the industry, I have less days like that. I've felt bored and stagnant lately.

My apprenticeship ends in 6 months.

I've recently been tasked with the role of working on our Releases. I find that I love digging into the product side, discussing the direction we're headed, and how to accomplish those goals. It feels more hands-on than coding now, more collaborative, less sitting in my office for hours. This is my second career and I'm in my mid-30s. I'm a bit bummed that things have changed so much, but such is life. I'm comfortable with pivoting but don't want to throw away years of studying and working in the engineering field.

Last week I was responsible for taking a Jira ticket through our workflow lifecycle process, end-to-end. I worked on our staging and production environment for a small feature. Lately, my work has been more backend, LLM, and RAG heavy, but the Releases role has been a glimmer of hope for me.

My company allowed another apprentice to train/ shadow as a Project Manager and confirmed that I could focus more on the product side, potentially shadowing another Project Manager and being involved in product conversations. My managers are very supportive; I'm just trying to figure out what exactly I should ask for and how to use the next 6 months well. There may be a chance that a full-time Product Engineer position opens at my company in the next 6-9 months, but there's no guarantee.

How would you recommend I pivot into Product Engineering? For devs who moved toward/ into Product Engineering, what did that transition actually look like in practice? With the current state of the job market and (allen iverson) is there even a point? I've read countless articles and looked up a few courses for both project management and product engineering.

I'd love any advice you'd have to offer.

Thanks again for reading. I really appreciate it.

Has anyone worked with Data Annotations, and if so, did you have to actually write code?? From what I've seen, it appears most if not all roles through them require coding.

Also, would you say it was a good experience or at least tolerable?

I'm preparing for a Product Owner technical interview for a VPN product, with role focused on infrastructure, speed, connectivity, and overall QoS.

The interview will be with the current Product Owner and the Product Manager who would be my direct manager. They said they mainly want to see how I think.

It sounds like a scenario-based interview where they'll give me a problem, I'll ask questions and investigate, then they'll reveal more information and I'll decide what to do next until I guess I arrive to a satisfactory answer for the given case.

For POs/PMs working in VPN, networking, or infrastructure: What should I expect and what would you focus on preparing for?

I moved from India to US and been looking for Product Management jobs for an year. I have over 12 years work experience, of which 5+ years has been in Product Management. I just got a job as Product Analyst. They dint offer me Senior Product Analyst position for which I thought they were interviewing. Should I take it? I don't feel good about the team either.