The Product Manager's Journey

Master Product Management: From Discovery to Leadership

Become a world-class PM. Deliver impactful products and lead teams with confidence.

Overwhelmed by Product Management Challenges?

Break Free from Burnout and Stalled Growth

Take control of your PM career with a proven framework.

Product management means juggling user needs, stakeholders, and teams while driving impact. Without a clear path, you risk burnout or stagnation. This course delivers a step-by-step process to master discovery, prioritize effectively, deliver results, and lead strategically, preparing you for a product director role.

Designed for PM Success

Your Path to Product Excellence

Practical skills, modern frameworks, and a mentorship approach.

  • Outcome-Driven: Master Jobs-to-be-Done, Opportunity Scoring, and Now/Next/Later to deliver user and business value.

  • Practical Skills: Apply discovery, prioritization, and leadership techniques right away.

  • Mentorship Tone: Bite-sized videos feel like guidance from a seasoned PM mentor.

  • Career Transformation: Go from new PM to product director with strategic leadership skills.

Explore the Full Journey

Your Complete Product Management Roadmap

From User Needs to Team Leadership

Dive into the course below to explore the full journey. Start with core sections now and unlock new lessons as they’re released, all included with your enrollment.

Introduction

Welcome to Your Journey!
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Starting as a Product Manager

Learn the PM role, responsibilities, and skills. Understand role flexibility and how duties adapt across contexts to start your career with clarity. Practical guidance for new PMs.

Defining the Product Manager Role
Exploring PM Responsibilities
Navigating Product Roles
Identifying Core Skills
Adapting Work to Startups vs. Enterprises

Navigating the First 90 Days

Integrate into a product team in your first 90 days. Learn to navigate workflows, build relationships with cross-functional partners and engineers, and make early contributions. Actionable steps for new PMs.

Starting with Your Product Team
Understanding Your Team’s Workflow
Collaborating with Cross-Functional Partners
Building Relationships in the Product Trio
Delivering Your First Team Contribution

Starting Discovery with User Needs

Begin discovery by gathering user needs with JTBD. Learn to frame jobs and collect insights through interviews, observations, and job mapping to identify user needs.

Understanding Jobs-to-be-Done
Conducting User Interviews
Observing User Behaviors
Collecting Quantitative User Data
Building a Job Map for User Needs

Deepening Discovery with Problem Analysis

Deepen discovery by analyzing user needs to identify problems and opportunities. Learn to process insights, map opportunities, create personas, test assumptions, and collaborate.

Analyzing User Needs for Problems
Mapping Opportunities with Solution Trees
Creating User Personas for Discovery
Testing Problem Assumptions with Experiments
Collaborating with Teams in Discovery

Managing the Product Backlog

Organize and prioritize the product backlog to deliver value. Learn to structure tasks with Now/Next/Later, prioritize with Opportunity Scoring, write job stories, balance priorities, and iterate with stakeholder input.

Organizing a Backlog with Now/Next/Later
Prioritizing with Opportunity Scoring
Writing Job Stories
Balancing Features, Bugs, and Support
Handling Stakeholder Input in the Backlog
Iterating on Backlog Priorities

Planning Product Features

Plan features from prioritized backlog tasks. Learn to define scope, set outcome-based metrics, build roadmaps, align the product trio, estimate effort, and design MVPs.

Defining Feature Scope
Setting Outcome-Based Metrics
Building Outcome-Focused Roadmaps
Aligning the Product Trio
Estimating Effort with the Trio
Designing Minimum Viable Products

Launching Product Features

Launch features with the product trio. Learn to prepare launches, execute go-to-market plans, track outcome-based metrics, iterate post-launch, and resolve challenges.

Preparing Launches with the Product Trio
Executing Go-to-Market Plans
Tracking Outcome-Based Metrics
Iterating Based on Launch Results
Resolving Launch Challenges

Measuring Product Performance

Measure product performance to optimize outcomes. Learn to define KPIs, set up analytics, analyze user data, run A/B tests, and act on insights.

Defining Key Performance Indicators
Setting Up Analytics Tools
Analyzing User Behavior Data
Running A/B Tests
Acting on Performance Insights

Influencing Executives and Peers

Influence executives and peers to support product outcomes. Learn to identify key stakeholders, communicate performance insights, manage expectations, resolve conflicts, and align with executive objectives.

Identifying Key Executives and Peers
Communicating Performance Insights to Stakeholders
Managing Up to Executives
Managing Peers Across Functions
Aligning with Executive Objectives

Leading Product Teams

Lead product teams to deliver outcomes. Learn to influence without authority, foster trio collaboration, resolve conflicts, mentor juniors, and set team OKRs.

Influencing Without Authority
Fostering Product Trio Collaboration
Resolving Team Conflicts
Mentoring Junior PMs
Setting Team OKRs

For Every Level

Built for Ambitious Product Managers

From Newbies to Future Product Directors

  • New PMs: Master fundamentals to stand out.

  • Mid-level PMs: Drive impact through discovery and delivery.

  • Senior PMs: Lead teams and influence execs for product director roles.

No matter your level, this course equips you with the tools and mindset to excel.

HI! MY NAME IS

Pedro Sampaio

With over 20 years in software engineering and product management, I’m a product leader passionate about empowering Product Managers and teams. My expertise bridges technology and strategy, guiding you to uncover user needs, prioritize with precision, deliver impactful solutions, measure success, and align stakeholders. I share proven methods to help you grow from new Product Manager to Product Director, creating products that win.

Transform Your Career

Unlock Your Product Leadership Potential

Deliver, Measure, and Lead with Confidence

  • Deliver user-focused products with modern discovery and prioritization.

  • Launch features that drive measurable outcomes.

  • Influence executives and peers to align on strategic goals.

  • Lead product teams, ready for a product director role.

The Product Manager's Journey

The Product Manager’s Journey

  • Course

Follow a PM’s career from first day to leadership. Learn to define user needs, validate ideas, prioritize backlogs, plan and launch features, align stakeholders, measure performance, and lead teams. Actionable, mentorship-driven guidance for building user-centric products in startups or enterprises.