Seeam Shahid Noor is widely known as a YouTuber. Outside YouTube, at the time of this episode (July 2022), he was working as a product manager at IBM in the USA. The episode title refers to a $120,000 product manager role in the US.
In this episode Ahmed Fahad looks at the professional side of Seeam's life. They talk about "career capital", how he chose his career path, his job interviews and how he got into product management, and his salary negotiation tactics. Fahad asks what a product manager actually does, what salary ranges look like for product managers in the US, and how to pick which company to join. The description links resources including 80,000 Hours, The Lean Product Playbook, Decode and Conquer and Atomic Habits.
What the conversation covers
- What career capital is
- How Seeam chose his career path
- How he prepared for product manager interviews
- What he actually does as a product manager
- Salary ranges for product managers in the US
- How to choose which company to join
- Skills a product manager should have
- Whether a product manager needs to know how to code
- His other activities and his favorite books
The conversation is in Bangla.