Advice for Progressing in your Career to a Chief Product Officer or VP Position

Path to Chief Product Officer

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I’ve spent a large percentage of my career running a boutique search firm (it was called Dissero) which specialized in helping startups hire Product Management talent.

In this clip, Bobby Tzekin shares advice for Product Managers on how to work your way up to an executive product leadership role as a Chief Product Officer or a VP of Product.

Bobby is the CEO & Co-Founder of Wisetack, the leading Pay Over Time platform for in-person services.

Prior to Wisetack, Bobby held product leadership roles at several tech companies that scaled including Mosaic, Lending Club, YapStone, and PayPal.

In this clip, Bobby shares advice for Product Managers on how to work your way up to an executive product leadership role as a Chief Product Officer or a VP of Product.

Bobby recently appeared on The VentureFizz Podcast. You can check out the full interview by clicking here: Bobby Tzekin – The VentureFizz Podcast Interview.

In this episode, he shares:

  • His career path from consulting to the world of product management which originated at PayPal.
  • The criteria he used to evaluate new career opportunities and his experience leading and scaling product at companies like YapStone, Lending Club, and Mosaic.
  • All the details on Wisetack and the company’s business model, plus an example use case.
  • Advice for starting a fintech company for entrepreneurs.
  • And so much more.
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Keith Cline

I’ve spent a large percentage of my career running a boutique search firm (it was called Dissero) which specialized in helping startups hire Product Management talent.