Main Responsibilities of a Product Manager at Acer
As a laptop product manager at Acer, Bernice's main responsibilities included "develop[ing] new products" and fulfilling "customized orders," requiring deep customer understanding and negotiation with engineering. The new product development process presented a significant challenge, as Bernice needed to navigate technical discussions despite a non-technical background, thus improving negotiation and technical skills during the role.
Product Management, Negotiation, Technical Proficiency, Problem-Solving, Communication
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Bernice Li
Product Manager
Acer
National Taiwan University/2016
UCLA Anderson MBA
Fine Arts, Music, Marketing
Technology
Product / Service / Software Development and Management
International Student, Took Out Loans
Video Highlights
1. Develop new products and manage customized orders, requiring deep customer understanding and negotiation with engineering teams.
2. Navigating technical complexities despite a non-technical background, highlighting the need for strong negotiation and continuous learning.
3. The challenging nature of both new product development and customized order fulfillment in a fast-paced environment.
Transcript
What are your main responsibilities within your current role?
Considering I am a full-time MBA student, I don't have a job right now. I will share my last job as a product manager at Acer Computer.
I worked as a laptop product manager at Acer. I mainly had two kinds of responsibilities. The first was to develop new products, and the second was to handle customized orders.
These two types of jobs were very challenging. For customized orders, I needed to understand the customers' needs deeply and negotiate with the engineering team to see if we could produce the order.
The challenge with developing new products was primarily because, during the process, I had to go through many technical details. Since my background wasn't in a technical or engineering field before, in many situations, I didn't really understand what they were talking about.
So, I had to improve my negotiation skills and learn a lot of technical things during my job.