I have total 4 years and 7 month’s experience working in finance domain as a credit analyst. While my last year of work experience is very diversified working as product owner, drafting credit poli...

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I have total 4 years and 7 month’s experience working in finance domain as a credit analyst. While my last year of work experience is very diversified working as product owner, drafting credit policies, building product and also helped in development of a tech platform. I now want to switch to a product owner role. What are the chances for this?

How easy it is to secure a profile building credit policies or business product in a fintech startup ?

Product Owner

How easy it is to secure a profile building credit policies or business product in a fintech startup ?- Grapevine

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Hey good folks, I’ve have had a decent long career of 9 years now, started with finance for 1 year switched quickly to category/program/ business facing roles for the longest time, I have worked in various edtechs - notable Unacademy initial days, currently working for a fintech company, I have a very good interest in tech as a whole for a long time, product management is the best role for me move forward and switch, I wanted to know a way to switch or learn in the right way, do courses work ? Will only practical experience work ? 

P.s not exactly a newbie in the space, I’ve identified problems, ideated, built and solved problems via features, functionality and process all in the purview of product + results - one of the reason why I find it extremely interesting 

What would be an optimal way to become a PM (wouldn’t say a right way)

Need guidance, switching from program/category managent role to a PM role

Software Engineer

15 YOE BFSI out of which 7years in Fintech currently pursuing

ISB' product management certification

How to break into a product role/Job

Investor

I am a Finance guy with around three years of experience but thinking to move to Product roles in fintech or a products that has anything to do with transactions. Where do I start?

Want to switch to Product Management

Director Finance

Hey everyone!

I'm currently working as a Product Manager at a well-known insurance firm. After being in this industry for a while, I've realized it's not the right fit for me and I'm looking to make a switch. However, with the tough market conditions, I haven't had much luck finding new opportunities. I'm really interested in transitioning to tech-related Product Management, Marketing, or Strategy roles, but most job postings require 2-4 years of industry-specific experience in tech.

I've also heard from colleagues that it can be difficult to switch industries when you have a background in insurance. This has left me feeling a bit demotivated and unsure about my prospects. 

I would love to hear any advice or suggestions on how I can better prepare myself for these roles and increase my chances of landing a new opportunity. 

A little bit about my background: I have a B.Tech in Computer Science and an MBA from IIM and 1 year of professional experience

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Insurance to Tech - career transition

Product Manager

Transition from Insurance PM to Tech PM

Hi All

I have 2.5 YOE as an analyst, currently working as an senior product analyst with CTC of 15L fixed + 5L ESOPs.

I have only been in product since start of career and have a set path to becoming an APM at my firm by next cycle in Dec.

Recently I wanted some building experience and I have built a few web and mobile apps and I found coding is very interesting.

I’m having thoughts about switching careers because of 2 reasons:
1) Money -
although I believe I’m underpaid (cause I received offers of 22L fixed for role of product analyst in past but chose not to switch because of market volatility.)

But in long run, I believe being tech is going to make a lot more money compared to product roles (I have friends with 1-2 YOE making 26L fixed) and the remote opportunities.

2) Skills
Product is mostly soft skills and tech is more hard skills driven. With amount of layoffs in PM roles, I think tech is just a safer bet. Also given I don’t hate coding. I think I would happily code compared to doing things like user calling/ making review decks/ following up with other teams meticulously/ writing PRDs.

One specific question I have is: what are things in tech role that are not very fun to do but still part of JD?

pivoting from product to tech [seeking advice]

Analyst

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

business/finance major, graduated in 2019, been working for 3yrs and 10 months, have doubled my salary since I started my career in 2019.
Exploring options- masters in India only as abroad is expensive and doesn't make any sense in today's market. 
Have seen the fintech space closely boom as a 20y.o fresh out of college, and since then I've worked across sme financing, education financing, b2b credit card payments and now again back to education financing for a traditional nbfc. 
My roles have varied from strategy and operations, to investor relations/nbfc treasury to product management (current role)
I wanted some advice/opinion from the community whether to continue on my career path or switch to masters- take a break of 18 months study from a great school and get back in the industry.
Also, if I explore the later one then apart from the isbs and IIMs of the world are there even good 1 year mba programs in india?

MBA for someone with a  non tech BG

Working at major finance company trying to be a fintech 

Currently at PMO role of their fintech app .have two years of experience in the same.
Suggest me roles where I could switch

Looking for job

I was super curious for product management roles and switch to startups was one of easy bets, my current role( 3 yr work ex as implementation consultant)  in B2B  involved customer interaction and working on requirements on OOTB product,but back then i didn't appear many interviews, i wasn't actively applying but with recent scenario of all layoffs and startups fundings, what should be a good strategy now? Need suggestions from experienced folks

Product Roles

Associate Product Manager

I have almost 2 years of experience working in a fintech company , worked across multiple services like insurance ,lending creating delightful user experiences

Anyone hiring product designers ??

Product Designer

I have approx 1 year of experience in the banking sector as a Corporate Banker. I am trying to switch my industry but I am not getting any positive results. Is it possible to switch from the banking sector if yes then in which profile I should apply, I am into core finance or sales profiles. 
Please advice

How to switch from the banking sector

Relationship Manager

Hello Fellow Grapeviners,

I am actively on the lookout for PM roles in E-commerce/Travel OTA/Fintech. I have 3 years of PM exp- worked in private Banks, have good exposure to different BFSI products - from savings accounts, cards, payments to new age tech - Tokenization, Account Aggregators, Product recommendation engine.
Currently facing quite a bit of Role Ambiguity - too many people involved in a simple product decision - so thinking of pursuing greener pastures.

Please let me know if there are any suitable openings in your orgs. Feel free to contact me over Telegram. 
ID -@draagonbornn

Note- Looking for Bangalore location only.


Thanks & Cheers for the long weekend ahead 😸🍺

Looking for PM roles in E-com/Travel OTA/Fintech

I have a close friend of mine looking to switch from finance industry to product management. 

Is there anyone you know who has done similar thing? in your opinion what are the steps someone should take in this direction?

Has anyone moved from finance(banking, trade forex etc) to product management ?

Staff Engineer

So there are few openings in a bank for above role. Any1 here from this role or has done this profile? Insights would be of gr8 help + any begginner/intermediate materials one can go through or some certifications/courses!!

Product manager role in a bank

Sales Development Representative

Dear Grapevine Community, 
I need your suggestion / help / opinion.

I am a Finance MBA grad having over 6 years of core banking experience in SME Working Capital Funding. I am also a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM). I am skilled at loan underwriting, credit appraisal, financial & ratio analysis along with credit assessment, business valuation, etc. I have been doing this for 6 years.

However, now since last 5months I have moved to a backend role in credit analytics dept. We design a product (for eg - Micro loans to women entrepreneurs) as per the policy guidelines, conduct UAT, resolve bugs, make the product go-live in all branches, and continuously analyze data for potential gaps and tap the same for it's scale up.

I am looking for part-time jobs / side hustle ideas where I can leverage my banking experience and FRM.

Please help !
Thank You.

SIDE HUSTLE FOR A FINANCE GUY

Risk Analytics

Hey. I have close to 6 years of Experience in Sales and Customer centric roles but recently I have developed an interest in Product Development. For reference, I have an Engineering degree in Computer Science and MBA as well. 

A few questions for clarity: 

1. Is it possible to make this transition into a Product role at this stage of my career? 
2. If I want to teach myself the skills of a product manager, how should I start and what resources should i refer to, to begin with that can start the learning process?

Transition to a Product Role

Customer Success

Hi, I have close to 2 years experience in consulting mostly in implementation and support. 

I am looking forward to making a career in product management and would like to know how can someone with no product experience make this transition and land a job? 

Also what would be the best way to make this transition?

How easy it is to secure a profile building credit policies or business product in a fintech startup ?

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