Web Industry Evolution Practical Course #19 ~From Director to Product Manager: Come to the PdM World Line~ Seminar Repor

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On Thursday, July 21st, Mynavi Creators held an online seminar entitled "Web Industry Evolution Practical Course #19: From Director to Product Manager - Welcome to the World Line of PdM."

"Web Industry Evolution Practical Course" is a course where you can learn about your career from role models working at the forefront of the web industry. This is the 19th installment of the series, and this time we welcomed Shingo Sato, a product manager at Money Forward, Inc., as a guest to talk about the role of product management and its practice.

Instructor Profile
Mr. Shingo Sato
Shingo Sato,
Product Manager, Business Development Department, HOME Division, Money Forward, Inc.

After graduating from university, he worked in web design and direction at a web production company. He then moved to CyberAgent, Inc. in 2011. He mainly worked as a director and producer in the media business, while gaining experience in scrum development and team building. He was also involved in the launch of new services. In 2017, he moved to Recruit Co., Ltd., where he managed the creative team before taking charge of planning service improvements and directing cross-sectional organizations. In 2020, he joined Money Forward, Inc. , where he is concurrently serving as product manager for services for self-employed individuals and head of the strategy department. He is primarily involved in strategy planning, team building, and people management. He is currently in charge of the growth of existing services and the launch of new services in a business development team that focuses on services for individuals.

Don't "become" a product manager, "do" product management

After working as a web director at a web production company, Sato was involved in product management at CyberAgent and Recruit, and is currently a product manager at Money Forward (for a detailed career history, please see the pre-interview, " My accumulated experience led me to the path of product management ").

In the first half of the seminar, Sato talked about his belgium phone number data career so far, saying, "Looking back now, my job is called product management, but I wasn't conscious of it at the time."

Sato: If anything, I thought I would gradually expand the scope of my work and increase the things I could do. I would stick my nose into anything that interested me even a little, and try it even if I had no experience. If I succeeded, I would be lucky, and even if I failed, I would gain experience, so I thought there would be few disadvantages.