Shared Home Office in Troon, Scotland

Name: Sam Dickie

Location: Troon, Scotland

Occupation: Senior Product Manager

Room size: 18 m² (194 ft²)

Cost of setup: £5,2K ($6,3 USD)

Social media: LinkedIn, Twitter

Website: Sam Dickie

Hello! Tell us a bit about yourself

My name is Sam. I’m a Product Manager at Skyscanner, located on the west coast of Scotland.

I’ve spent the last nine years of my career as a Product Manager, primarily for very early-stage tech startups.

The first five years were spent as a PM in a startup studio in London and subsequently for two no-code web app builder startups working remotely.

I recently took the leap and decided to try working for a somewhat more mature startup at a much larger organisation to understand the dynamics of a larger org and learn from some of the best designers, engineers and PMs.

Believe it or not, prior to getting into Product Management, I was previously a Town Planner.

Turns out it’s nothing like SimCity, so I spent my evenings trying to learn code until I discovered no-code tools back in early 2015.

I felt like the only person aware of these tools at the time, so I decided to curate all the tools I found into a directory and launched NoCode.tech in 2016.

Fast-forward two years later and the site was acquired. This was the inflection point that drove me to find a career in tech.

I continued to create digital products, communities, and newsletters and fell in love with the process, which led me to my first role as a PM.

During the early mornings, evenings, and weekends, I love spending time working on some of my own projects.

The beauty of this work is that there are fewer constraints and I can flex my creativity and do what I want.

My current side projects include my monthly newsletter, discovering new software products in Beta, and curating them in BetaDirectory, occasionally writing for my blog, tinkering with my personal website, experimenting with new technology, and doing product consultancy for early-stage tech startups.

Take us through your setup

I share the office with my partner, so we designed the workspace together, which was much easier than you might think.

Fortunately, we have somewhat similar tastes.

We both work remotely and are in the tech sector, so we have matching requirements.