A Handy List of Skills

Product

• Product strategy & vision

• Roadmap prioritization & sequencing

• Product discovery & user research

• Stakeholder interviews

• PRDs, epics & user stories

• Success metrics & KPI definition

• OKRs

• A/B testing & experimentation

• Working prototypes

• Backlog management

• PDLC

• Phased & regulated rollout strategy

• Go-to-market

• Cross-functional leadership

• Process design

• Sales enablement tooling

• Internal platform & tools product

• Jira

• Confluence

• Technical Product Management

Data & Experimentation

• Heap

• LaunchDarkly

• Elasticsearch

• Redash

• DataDog & metrics dashboards

• Working with data science teams on model-driven decisioning

Technical Depth

• Software architecture (microservices, APIs)

• Object-oriented principles & design patterns

• Test-driven development & unit testing

• Code compliance & best practices

• Streaming microservices

• e-commerce systems & practices

• Vibe coding and AI tooling in the delivery process (claude, cursor, etc.)
  

Languages & Platforms

• Go

• Ruby

• PHP

• Java

• MySQL

• AWS

• Docker

• Git/GitFlow

• CI/CD

Leadership

• Agile methodology

• Strategic planning

• Coaching & mentoring