You Are Already the Second Agent
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Continue reading →IFor anyone moving into product
Product judgment, practised with discipline.
Changing careers into product is not a leap. It is a translation, and AI is changing what the job asks of you. The Product Stoic is for anyone moving into product or levelling up as a PM. The one-to-one program has a dedicated track for QA and testing professionals.
“You cannot control that the work is changing. You can control the judgment you bring to what comes next.”
The Product Stoic
IIField Notes
A monthly note on the craft and temperament of product work.
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Continue reading →IIIThe Product Stoic Program · Invite only
Into product, or up within it. Deliberately, on your own terms.
A private, fixed-outcome program for people moving into product management and PMs ready for the next level, with a dedicated track for QA and testing professionals. The judgment you already practise, put to work where it is valued most.
By application. A small number of places at a time.
- Three tracks: QA to Product, Into Product, The Next Level.
- A defined outcome, not open-ended coaching hours.
- Built on the discipline and restraint of The Product Stoic.
IVIn their words
For years I felt boxed in as "just QA," even though I was the one flagging usability issues before they reached engineering, negotiating trade-offs with product and design, and understanding user pain points better than some of the PMs I worked with. I knew I could do the job. I just didn't know how to prove it.
Pranjal helped me see my QA background as a different lens on the same skills PM hiring managers actually screen for: prioritization, cross-functional influence, and customer empathy. We rebuilt my resume and portfolio around product decisions I had shaped, not just bugs I had caught, and ran mock interviews until product sense questions stopped feeling like guesswork. He pushed me to go after Senior PM roles when I would have settled for an APM title, then coached me through the offer negotiation.
3 months later I signed up for my first official title and role as a Senior Product Manager. I didn't just change my title, rather I changed how I talk about my own experience. If you're in QA wondering whether PM is actually within reach, it is, and Pranjal knows exactly how to get you there. Cannot thank him enough!
The Field Notes
VIField Notes
Three free Field Notes.
Short, honest guides to moving into product, using AI in product work, and moving from QA to product. Yours in exchange for an email.