Sana Mohammadzadeh

When I was younger, I used to do puzzles a lot. I liked those moments when I poured out all the pieces from the box and became hesitant that I would never be able to complete it. But as one Korean proverb says: starting is half the task. I learned that I should start by assembling the outer edge of the puzzle to get a sense of scope, and then add details. One piece after another, step by step, the ambiguity began to disappear. It's what I do every day when faced with a problem at work. As a person who looks forward to new challenges, and is eager to find and solve problems I studied mathematics at highschool. However it didn’t satisfy me. I wanted to be an effective person who could solve real problems and have a profound impact on a group of people's lives [yes, I thought I was born to save the universe :)] .So I jumped into the entrepreneur world and set up my business. But, there was still something missing. I was sociable [still am] and I enjoy collaborating and communicating with others. I wanted to be a member of a team where we would be able to celebrate victories together, support each other in failures, and work hard together to achieve future successes. While I had no idea about product management, I enrolled in a PM internship program at a reputable Iranian company . And yes, finally I found it ! This package of real problems + an impact on a large group of people + being a member of a team, and on top of that, daily effort to learn new things and develop yourself, was what I have been searching for a very long time. I joined the Product world in 2020 and worked on different products from on-demand delivery to social networking platforms, and now I'm a product manager at an e-commerce company with 30 million MAU I don't know what will happen in the future, but maybe one day I will start my summary with this statement: When I started my job as a PM, I used to listened to users to identify their problems, and when I did, I became hesitant that I wouldn’t be able to find a real solution to these problems. As the famous quote goes, starting is half the task. so I began brainstorming with my team, which included designers, developers, QAs, AIs, and data analysts. Though we couldn't always find the right solution, we learned from every situation.