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Pm Career Growth

by RefoundAI in RefoundAI/lenny-skills

Help users navigate the path from junior product manager to executive leadership by focusing on ownership, cross-functional influence, and intentional career design.

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Install Pm Career Growth

skills CLI
$ npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill pm-career-growth -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install RefoundAI/lenny-skills pm-career-growth --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/pm-career-growth .claude/skills/pm-career-growth && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
pm-career-growth
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
777 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
76
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Help users navigate the path from junior product manager to executive leadership by focusing on ownership, cross-functional influence, and intentional career design.

  • Works in 4 steps: Define the roadmap - Help the user treat… → Identify ownership gaps - Guide the user… → Audit influence skills - Evaluate the… → …
  • SKILL.md covers How to Help, Core Principles, Questions to Help Users and Common Mistakes to Flag, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Pm Career Growth is an agent skill from RefoundAI/lenny-skills. Help users navigate the path from junior product manager to executive leadership by focusing on ownership, cross-functional influence, and intentional career design.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/artifacts.md` and `references/guest-insights.md`).

The repository describes itself as: 86 product management skills from Lenny's Podcast for Claude Code and AI agents. Hiring, user research, strategy, shipping, and more. The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “/pm-career-growth”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Define the roadmap - Help the user treat their career as a product by defining success metrics and a multi-year growth strategy.
  2. Identify ownership gaps - Guide the user to find high-impact, neglected problems in their organization that they can take responsibility…
  3. Audit influence skills - Evaluate the user's current relationship-building and communication styles to identify blockers to senior-level…
  4. Prepare for transitions - Provide tactical advice for navigating promotions, new domain pivots, or moving into executive leadership.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 13598cc. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Pm Career Growth loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~136k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 46 tokens; SKILL.md has 777 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~46
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~136k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from RefoundAI/lenny-skills at commit 13598cc, republished under its MIT licence (© RefoundAI). 777 words, ~1,318 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/pm-career-growth/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
pm-career-growth
description
Help users navigate the path from junior product manager to executive leadership by focusing on ownership, cross-functional influence, and intentional career design.

PM Career Growth

Transition from task-executor to high-impact product leader by mastering influence, ownership, and strategic foresight.

Help the user with pm career growth using insights from 43 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

How to Help

  1. Define the roadmap - Help the user treat their career as a product by defining success metrics and a multi-year growth strategy.
  2. Identify ownership gaps - Guide the user to find high-impact, neglected problems in their organization that they can take responsibility for.
  3. Audit influence skills - Evaluate the user's current relationship-building and communication styles to identify blockers to senior-level trust.
  4. Prepare for transitions - Provide tactical advice for navigating promotions, new domain pivots, or moving into executive leadership.

Core Principles

Accept Total Responsibility

Ben Horowitz: "What I was trying to get out in Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager, was the job is fundamentally a leadership job. And it's a tricky leadership job because nobody is actually reporting to you."

Product leadership is defined by driving results without formal authority. You must accept total responsibility for whether the product works, regardless of team structure.

Prioritize Creative Velocity

Amjad Masad: "Typically, you're bottlenecked where your ideas are not fitting in because they need to be made and they need to be made quickly. Now, you open up that bottleneck. So now actually making things is a lot easier. Actually, you become limited by how fast you can generate ideas."

In the AI era, the bottleneck shifts from technical implementation to how quickly you can generate and refine high-impact ideas and product architectures.

Shift to Proactive Leadership

Ethan Evans 2.0: "So in the newsletter we did together, I wrote about how over time, you go from asking your manager, 'How can I help?' To suggesting to your manager, 'These are some things I see that seem like they need to be done. Would you like me to do them?' To just seeing what needs to be done and sort of keeping your leader in the loop and saying, 'Hey, I noticed that we have this problem. I fixed it. I noticed we have this opportunity. I've started program against it.'"

Advancement requires moving from a reactive executor who asks for assignments to a leader who independently identifies organizational gaps and suggests initiatives.

Write Your Career Spec

Deb Liu: "Some of the best PMs I have ever worked with are terrible PMs for their career. They just drift from job to job. 'Hey, should I take this role or this role? How do I think about this?' But if I said you had to write a spec for your career, what does success look like?"

Avoid aimless drifting by applying PM disciplines to your own career. Write a formal spec with success metrics and a roadmap for your professional development.

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Control the Customer Truth

Laura Schaffer: "And so that means that your superpower is in really pulling those insights in and bringing them to life, staying close to the customer. There's not a single leader or executive that isn't going to be stoked to hear about valuable customer insights that highlight problems they might not be seeing."

Gain outsized organizational influence by becoming the primary source of customer reality, aligning those insights with the company North Star metrics.

Questions to Help Users

  • "What is the single most important priority for your product right now, and what is stopping you from owning it?"
  • "If you were to write a PRD for your next career move, what would the success metrics look like?"
  • "Which of your manager's top three problems are you currently helping to solve?"
  • "How would your team describe the experience of working with you in three words?"
  • "What neglected organizational gap could you fill that would provide outsized business impact?"
  • "How are you using AI to increase your creative velocity and architectural understanding?"

Common Mistakes to Flag

  • Waiting for Permission - Proactive problem identification and ownership are what separate senior leaders from individual executors.
  • Focusing on Process over Product - Leadership performance is ultimately measured by whether the final product works, not the quality of internal documentation.
  • Over-indexing on Technical Syntax - In the AI era, high-level creative direction and architecture are more valuable than manual coding or implementation details.
  • Mistaking Authority for Influence - PMs often fail when they try to act like a CEO rather than building the cross-functional trust needed to drive a team.
  • Drifting Between Roles - Failing to apply product management discipline to your own career roadmap leads to reactive rather than intentional growth.

Deep Dive

For all 50 sourced insights from 43 guests, see references/guest-insights.md

  • Breaking Into Product
  • Career Transitions
  • Building A Promotion Case
  • Negotiating Compensation

© RefoundAI, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/pm-career-growth of RefoundAI/lenny-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/artifacts.md
  • references/guest-insights.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 13598cc

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Questions about Pm Career Growth

What does Pm Career Growth do?

Help users navigate the path from junior product manager to executive leadership by focusing on ownership, cross-functional influence, and intentional career design. Pm Career Growth is an agent skill from RefoundAI/lenny-skills. Help users navigate the path from junior product manager to executive leadership by focusing on ownership, cross-functional influence, and intentional career design.

How do I install Pm Career Growth in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill pm-career-growth -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/pm-career-growth in RefoundAI/lenny-skills) into .claude/skills/pm-career-growth in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Pm Career Growth in Codex?

Run `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill pm-career-growth -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/pm-career-growth in RefoundAI/lenny-skills) into .agents/skills/pm-career-growth in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Pm Career Growth in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill pm-career-growth -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/pm-career-growth, .gemini/skills/pm-career-growth, .github/skills/pm-career-growth and .opencode/skills/pm-career-growth in your project.

What does Pm Career Growth need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Pm Career Growth is instructions for the agent only.

Does Pm Career Growth access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Pm Career Growth safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Pm Career Growth use?

Pm Career Growth is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Pm Career Growth use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 135k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Pm Career Growth?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Pm Career Growth: Idea Refinement (addyosmani/agent-skills, 105k stars), Interview Me (addyosmani/agent-skills, 105k stars), User Story Writer (deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, 7.2k stars) and Game Changing Features (openstatusHQ/data-table-filters, 2.3k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Pm Career Growth?

RefoundAI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in RefoundAI/lenny-skills, which has 1,382 GitHub stars. The repository holds 76 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 16, 2026.

Source: RefoundAI/lenny-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.