pwellens

I have prepared a pitch for a new feature for UberEats, Postmates and other similar food delivery startups. My pitch is ready in draft form on Medium. It includes an interactive mock-up, detailed working mechanisms and the rationale for it.

Major challenge: I need to get exposure to the right audience in SF (product managers in tech, founders, designers, software engineers, marketers, …) because I count on this post to facilitate my transition from energy in Dubai to tech in San Francisco (moving in March). However I only have a very limited amount of followers on Twitter/Medium (less than 50).

My action plan to get traction is as follows:

Inside post: - Tags with Medium’s @ 2-3 people/companies of whom I included quotes/data; - Email subscription at end of post - Invite readers to provide feedback on a twitter # and on Medium

After publishing: - Share on Twitter (with @ to UberEats and PostMates) and on Facebook / Linkedin - Share on Reddit / Quora / StumbleUpon / HackerNews / Slack PM channels - If I have enough traction, I will approach Medium publications / influencers and ask them to share it as well. At the moment I do not have any influencer backing me

I'd be very interested in what you think of this action plan. Assuming the content is fine (i.e. title is catchy, enough pictures, good flow, etc), will this enable me to get sufficient exposure?

I'm moving in March from Dubai to San Francisco to reunite with my partner who completes her MBA at Stanford. I'm changing industries (energy to consumer tech), company size (corporate to startup) and geography at the same time.

I'm old by tech standards: 30. Yet I believe I can re-invent myself. So I resigned last week. My future is a white page.

I applied in December to UberEats and Postmates for a role in PM. In order to maximize my chances I prepared a pitch deck advocating for a new feature in about 20 slides. I got rejected by both. I tried getting feedback but no success.

I'd like to massively step up my game as I'm sure there is lots of room to improve. I'm aiming to get a product manager role in consumer tech. However it's not clear to me how to best reach the industry experts (i.e. consumer tech PMs), to get them to read the deck and provide me feedback on it. I'll post it on Medium but having few followers it might end up being a total flop.

Any suggestion?

Thank you HN!