Jules Walter
Director of Product Management @ Google
Product leader at Google working on Gemini. Co-founded CodePath and Black Product Managers.
βLeveraging mentors to uplevel your career, covering career development, product strategy and execution, and growth systems.β
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βSo far so good. It's really exciting to take a product from nothing to something.β
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
βYeah. And then over time we are adding more exciting content onto the product. We just recently you announced that we're adding NFL Sunday Ticket in 2023 to primetime channels and also to YouTube TV. ...β
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
βNot as their first PM, but I joined as one of their first PMs. Yeah.β
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
βYeah. Now, I'm mostly on the board of these organizations. We have really solid teams for both Black PMs and CodePath, and the teams are just really amazing.β
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
βYeah. You won't get feedback after an interview at any company.β
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
βYeah, it's hard at smaller companies. However, I think interviewing even at bigger companies will help you [inaudible 00:18:04]. A lot of the times the bigger companies have more rigorous processes. S...β
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
βYeah, that has been my experience and it's also what I hear from a lot of people I mentor.β
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
βYeah. You want to basically practice so much that even at your worst, you're good enough. I've always felt like most interviews, I literally did my worst. It's just that it was good enough to pass. Yo...β
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
βSimilar to the mentor point, people are actually happy to talk to you. They're even flattered because no one else asked them. "Well, hey, I read your doc. Can we talk about it?"β
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
βYeah. On the communications side, I read some stuff like Minto's Pyramid Principles. Extremely helpful and I know you had an article on that.β
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
βI mentioned also that whenever I see a great email exec update or whatever, I literally save it in a special folder.β
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
βYeah. Yeah, exactly. It's those kinds of things, right? And then he talked about saying back to people what you heard, asking for more information, et cetera.β
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)