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Being a makeup artist made me a better PM. Here's why that's not as weird as it sounds.
Before HubSpot, I was a PM at a tiny startup.
Before that, account management.
Before that, makeup artist.
No CS degree. No obvious path in.
But here's the thing. The makeup artist part - that's where I actually learned user research and the importance of clear alignment.
You learn fast when you're standing in front of someone who asked for "natural" and means something completely different to what you pictured. Reading what a client actually wants versus what they say they want is basically the whole job.
I think that "irrelevant" experience is often where the real PM instincts come from. No one wakes up one day and says they want to look and CSAT and NPS survey data all day.
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Drop the skill from your life before PM that's actually made you sharper in product. Weird ones especially welcome. 👇
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Being a makeup artist made me a better PM. Here's why that's not as weird as it sounds.
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