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What is a Career in Project and Product Management?

27 points by KMinshew 14y ago

nlow 14y ago
Are there other options besides product mgmt?
- KMinshew 14y ago
  Yes - we've built out pages for careers in Sales, Social Media, Editorial, Marketing & PR, and Bus Dev so far, and a few more (esp Engineering) are in the works. You can find them all by going to the blue bar on the top that says "Choose a Career Path to Explore" and selecting one from the drop-down menu
tensafefrogs 14y ago
I applied for one of these positions a few weeks ago. I got a generic "we'll let you know after we look at your stuff!" email in response, then nothing. So the site looks nice, love the videos and whatnot, but more transparency after submitting your info would be nice. I also see that the job I applied for is months old, so maybe it's not actually open.
- gobengo 14y ago
  We're doubling (to 4) our Product team at Livefyre, and seeking Technical Product Managers for our embeddable webapps. Your work at YouTube seems relevant. :) All PMs, get in touch? ben@livefyre.com.
  - bambax 14y ago
    livefyre.com: on Ubuntu Chrome, the css (site_media/css/style_v5.css) fail to load, together with many .js files; as a result, the site looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/mHmp2KX.png http://i.imgur.com/mHmp2KX.png (This doesn't happen on Ubuntu/Firefox, nor on Windows/Chrome.) It's strange; in the Network pane of Dev tools, the request show up as "failed"; but if I do curl "http://www.livefyre.com/site_media/css/style_v5.css http://www.livefyre.com/site_media/css/style_v5.css -H "Accept: text/css,/;q=0.1" -H "Cache-Control: max-age=0" -H "Referer: http://www.livefyre.com/ http://www.livefyre.com/ -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.43 Safari/537.31" then it works! Here's a copy of the network pane: http://i.imgur.com/2Srj8xj.png http://i.imgur.com/2Srj8xj.png
    - bambax 14y ago
      Okay, the culprit is Ghostery. Disabling it solves the problem. What's weird is that on Windows it doesn't block the requests to css or js files like this; but obviously the problem lies with this extension.
seivan 14y ago
In other words. Idea people who can't execute.
- dualboot 14y ago
  Recommended reading for you. http://dashes.com/anil/2009/06/the-end-of-fail.html http://dashes.com/anil/2009/06/the-end-of-fail.html
Nursie 14y ago
Wow, is anyone on that page over 30?
swedegeek 14y ago
I really dislike combining the notions of project and product management as if they are synonymous. It's like saying a developer and a designer are the same thing. That's wrong. The skills sets, discipline, and day in and day out activities are outrageously different. I get combining the 2 roles into one category for organization purposes, but the description/answer to the inquiring page title doesn't even use the word "project" in it. Could some project managers do product management and vice versa? Sure. I've even done some of both at the same time, despite it being somewhat of a split-brained job. Do some companies just muddy/confuse the terminology? Sure, but that doesn't mean it should be allowed to perpetuate further and confuse others even more.

27 points by KMinshew 14y ago

nlow 14y ago

Are there other options besides product mgmt?

KMinshew 14y ago
Yes - we've built out pages for careers in Sales, Social Media, Editorial, Marketing & PR, and Bus Dev so far, and a few more (esp Engineering) are in the works. You can find them all by going to the blue bar on the top that says "Choose a Career Path to Explore" and selecting one from the drop-down menu

tensafefrogs 14y ago

I applied for one of these positions a few weeks ago. I got a generic "we'll let you know after we look at your stuff!" email in response, then nothing. So the site looks nice, love the videos and whatnot, but more transparency after submitting your info would be nice. I also see that the job I applied for is months old, so maybe it's not actually open.

gobengo 14y ago
We're doubling (to 4) our Product team at Livefyre, and seeking Technical Product Managers for our embeddable webapps. Your work at YouTube seems relevant. :) All PMs, get in touch? ben@livefyre.com.
- bambax 14y ago
  livefyre.com: on Ubuntu Chrome, the css (site_media/css/style_v5.css) fail to load, together with many .js files; as a result, the site looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/mHmp2KX.png http://i.imgur.com/mHmp2KX.png (This doesn't happen on Ubuntu/Firefox, nor on Windows/Chrome.) It's strange; in the Network pane of Dev tools, the request show up as "failed"; but if I do curl "http://www.livefyre.com/site_media/css/style_v5.css http://www.livefyre.com/site_media/css/style_v5.css -H "Accept: text/css,/;q=0.1" -H "Cache-Control: max-age=0" -H "Referer: http://www.livefyre.com/ http://www.livefyre.com/ -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.43 Safari/537.31" then it works! Here's a copy of the network pane: http://i.imgur.com/2Srj8xj.png http://i.imgur.com/2Srj8xj.png
  - bambax 14y ago
    Okay, the culprit is Ghostery. Disabling it solves the problem. What's weird is that on Windows it doesn't block the requests to css or js files like this; but obviously the problem lies with this extension.

seivan 14y ago

In other words. Idea people who can't execute.

dualboot 14y ago
Recommended reading for you. http://dashes.com/anil/2009/06/the-end-of-fail.html http://dashes.com/anil/2009/06/the-end-of-fail.html

Nursie 14y ago

Wow, is anyone on that page over 30?

swedegeek 14y ago

I really dislike combining the notions of project and product management as if they are synonymous. It's like saying a developer and a designer are the same thing. That's wrong. The skills sets, discipline, and day in and day out activities are outrageously different. I get combining the 2 roles into one category for organization purposes, but the description/answer to the inquiring page title doesn't even use the word "project" in it. Could some project managers do product management and vice versa? Sure. I've even done some of both at the same time, despite it being somewhat of a split-brained job. Do some companies just muddy/confuse the terminology? Sure, but that doesn't mean it should be allowed to perpetuate further and confuse others even more.