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Our Senior Product Manager (and pioneer of our Employee Share Plans solution), Nilendra, gives us a glimpse into his work world.

What is your role at Automic?

I’m a Product Manager at Automic. The way I look at my role is that I represent the customer at our company, while also having insight to what our business goals are in the organisation. The role is to optimise both sets of knowledge to achieve the greatest value to make business easier for our clients through our products.

What is your approach to managing your daily/weekly workload?

My two main priorities in the week revolve around two things that I feel go hand in hand: prioritising and alignment.

This entails many things from prioritising what I’m working on in the week, to prioritising our backlog or roadmap for each product stream. However, this process is impossible to do well without great alignment between all stakeholders involved in the decision making, or the end-user of the product.

In our fast-paced environment, priorities can change at a pin drop, and you need to accept that even the best laid plans need to be tossed aside if a greater opportunity arises. I feel the skill is quickly adapting your workload to chase the greatest value, rather than committing to a plan because it is a lot of effort to put it together. The goal is to deliver the most exceptional product that makes business easier for our clients and stay winning!