A Six-Month Move into Product Management
A backend engineer built a product portfolio through two internal projects and landed an APM role.
- Timeline
- 6mo
- Projects
- 2
- Offer
- 1
Sample mentor 3 mentorship slots open
Jordan Lee
Product & Engineering Mentor
I help early-career builders turn a long list of possibilities into one manageable next step — through honest conversations, practical plans and follow-ups that keep momentum.
- Career Direction
- Product Management
- Engineering Growth
- Portfolio Reviews
- Interview Prep
- First-time Leads
Where I Can Help
Guidance for people navigating product and engineering careers.
- Career DirectionChoosing a path
- Engineer to PMRole transitions
- Portfolio ReviewsShow your thinking
- Interview PrepMock & feedback
- First-time LeadsNew responsibilities
- Learning RoadmapsSkill plans
Honest conversations that end in a plan.
Bring a specific question. We’ll work through your options together and agree on one step you can take this week.
View Full ProfileFrom a question to your next step
Every session is built around one specific goal you bring.
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Share your context
A short note on your goal, your situation and what you’ve tried.
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Work through options
We talk through tradeoffs honestly, using real examples.
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Choose one step
You leave with one concrete action for this week.
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Follow up
A short check-in on what happened and what’s next.
About Me
I help early-career builders turn a long list of possibilities into a manageable next step. We review your context, talk through the tradeoffs and leave with a practical action plan.
I’ve worked as an engineer, product manager and engineering lead at startups and larger companies. I draw on those transitions — including the mistakes — so your next move is a little clearer than mine were.
You don’t need the whole map — just the next honest step.
— Jordan Lee
Profile Match
93% match: Excellent Match
Highly relevant for mentees moving into product, engineering leadership or their first tech role.
- Lived experience of each transition
- Structured session follow-ups
- Highly rated by mentees
- Evening & weekend slots
Mentorship Stories
Specific goals. Honest guidance. Steps that stick.
Leading a Team for the First Time
A new engineering lead set up 1:1s, a feedback rhythm and a delegation plan in the first 90 days.
- Plan
- 90d
- Reports
- 5
- Promotions
- +2
A Portfolio That Shows the Thinking
A graduate rewrote three projects as short case studies and tripled interview invitations.
- Interviews
- 3x
- Rewrite
- 4wk
- Offers
- 2
Mentorship Formats
One-off sessions or ongoing guidance, depending on your goal.
Experience I Draw On
- 2021 – PresentTTidewater (Series B)Engineering Lead
Leading two product engineering teams and running the internal mentorship program.
- 2018 – 2021LLumen PayProduct Manager
Owned onboarding and payments experience for a regional fintech app.
- 2015 – 2018SStackfieldSenior Software Engineer
Built core APIs and mentored new engineers through their first year.
- 2013 – 2015BBrightlaneSoftware Engineer
First engineering role on a small consumer product team.
Mentee Stories
“Jordan never told me what to do — just asked the questions that made the answer obvious. Six months later I was a PM.”
Background
- NUSNational University of SingaporeB.Comp. Computer Science (2009 – 2013)
- RFReforgeProduct Management Program (2018)
- Certified Mentor PractitionerEMCC
- Professional Scrum Product OwnerScrum.org
- Coaching Skills for ManagersExecutive Education
- Verified MentorAliveProfile
Mentoring Toolkit
- Notion
- Google Meet
- Calendly
- Linear
- GitHub
- Figma
- Miro
- Slack
- Loom
Open to
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Let’s turn your options into a next step.
Book a session, share your context, or ask about ongoing mentorship.