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What exactly do product managers do?
According to Tobi Lufadeju, product managers are walking encyclopedias. At Reliance HMO, she’s a product manager who is in charge of their consumer business unit.
New to the role, she battled with impostor syndrome at first.
“The first two months on the job were not easy. I joined an existing team which meant that I had to do a lot of learning and observation in the beginning. My team members would throw around in-house language during meetings and I also had to figure out how to speak the engineering team’s language. I dealt with impostor syndrome big time.”
Centre Stage
I’m bringing Tobi Lufadeju to
Centre Stage because I admire how determined she is to succeed in her role and how invested she is in her personal and professional development. Even when she has moments where she feels like a small fish in a big sea, she doesn’t allow her youthful insecurities to slow her down or get in the way of her responsibilities.
Two weeks after my meeting with Feranmi, I’m back at Eric Keyser to meet with a very nervous but confident Tobi Lufadeju who is a young product manager at Reliance HMO.
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