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Get Buy-In as a Technical PM: 3 Skills That Get You Heard

Hosted by Gavin Lee

Mon, Jun 29, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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What you'll learn

Write and communicate with your audience top of mind

PMs need buy-in from leaders outside their teams, so writing for different audiences is crucial.

How to talk about your work to get recognition

Technical PMs can tend to undersell their achievements - reframe them in terms of added value for different teams.

Use your technical background to build trust

Engineering leaders appreciate PMs who are technical - use this to your advantage and bridge PM and engineering teams.

Why this topic matters

Technical PMs often start off as software engineers or solutions engineers. Communication skills: both written and spoken - are not usually things taught in a software engineering class. However, PMs need buy-in from multiple stakeholders across an organisation. These three skills are ones that I have found imperative to learn and practice in order to avoid getting overlooked and gain trust.

You'll learn from

Gavin Lee

AI Product Manager at Squirro

My Product experience spans several industries (payments, dev tools, and now AI) in small to medium sized companies. As a Technical Product Manager in each of these companies, I noticed the same challenges popping up again and again.


There's so much more to the technical, UX/UI and business side of Product: communication and persuasion.


When you work in global and multi-national teams like I have in Australia and Switzerland, this is even more important. Your voice and writing is your tool for influence.

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