Rahul
Thacker
Senior Product Manager
Quinbay
Rahul is a high-agency domain-agnostic Product Manager with 6+ years of experience delivering B2C & B2B solutions. His stints as a Developer & Business Analyst earlier in his career have armed him with a well-rounded approach to software development. While he has worked in various capacities across the network automation, IoT, insurance, & more recently in the e-commerce space, his core interest lies in building data & business intelligence capabilities. He enjoys driving teams and organisations towards a data-informed approach to decision making. Outside of his core work, Rahul runs a nascent YouTube channel where he interviews experienced individuals on the first steps that students looking to break into different career paths in the industry can take, which is his way of giving back. He is passionate about facilitating workshops, loves traveling, & has a penchant for discovering rustic old cafés in odd places.
30 October 2024 09:45 - 10:15
Order & chaos: A pragmatic approach to product management
The role of a product manager is heavily contextual & subjective, unlike other roles that have a largely well-defined scope and clear responsibilities. For all of us looking to grow as Product Managers, there's a ton of content available for consumption with little to no guidance on how to tweak it according to each PM's domain, level of experience, and areas of interest. Most of it is either white noise, or aims for a mythical idealistic state. Through this talk, Rahul aims to provide pragmatic, domain-agnostic insights, tools & mental frameworks that PMs can use as a perspective/lens when looking at the problems they're trying to solve. By the end of the talk he aims to equip the audience with concrete steps they can adopt/execute to their day-to-day workings, so that they can finally rid themselves of the dreaded 'Impostor Syndrome' and find deep meaning in solving genuine user problems.