A VP of product at Google shares the one question she asks herself before changing jobs

"Every change that I made was not about 'what is the next big job?', but 'what is the next thing I want to learn?'"

"It's kind of funny because in many ways I have this big job, but I never was looking for how do I get a bigger role or a title."

"What I wanted to learn next as a product leader was: How do you build for very large-scale businesses and products? Because it's a different muscle."

Yulie Kwon Kim is VP of Product at Google Workspace and previously worked at eBay and Facebook. She consistently prioritized what she wanted to learn next when evaluating job changes, favoring roles that offered new skills over bigger titles or immediate prestige. During the 2010 mobile-app boom she gained mobile experience at startups, then deliberately moved to larger companies to learn how to build and operate at massive scale. She treats careers as a long game, often choosing lateral moves to develop different muscles and advising against taking only shiny, high-profile opportunities.

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