Corporate Product Ownership: A Stepping Stone to Product Management

Use it then lose it on your path to becoming a kick ass Product Manager

Blaine Holt
5 min readSep 7, 2020
Photo by Jordan Whitt on Unsplash

I started my career in Product Management in 2013. I was part of a large insurance corporate and I got the opportunity to step into the role of a Product Owner in a pretty amazing Scrum team.

What did I learn in this role? How to deliver projects and business cases using Scrum.

What didn’t I learn? Full Scope of Product Management.

I only learnt this when I leveraged my experience and got hired by a software product company. So why should you use then lose your Corporate Product Ownership role?

My observations are based on my own personal experience of moving through the different environments of corporate versus product companies.

So lets break it down and understand why you need to move on once you’ve learnt and experienced the basics.

The Good

Getting into a career in Product Management is a bit of a mystery, and like most people I’ve talked to, I stumbled into the role by accident.

That accident however was facilitated by the way businesses are transforming their approach to internal software…

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Blaine Holt

What do you get when you take a Kiwi that studied Bio and Psych and throw him at technology! A weird and wonderful mix. Head of Product @ HATCH