Why do you want to move? Is the motivation primarily growth/money- then consulting is also a great option.

Growth Manager

Old IIT Graduate 4 YoE; T1 Consulting firm (NonMBB) + Strategy team at a Unicorn Startup I am thinking of moving to a product role looking at rising opportunities. Though, I have loved the work I h...

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Old IIT Graduate
4 YoE; T-1 Consulting firm (Non-MBB) + Strategy team at a Unicorn Startup
I am thinking of moving to a product role looking at rising opportunities. Though, I have loved the work I have been doing till now. What do you guys suggest? How should I assess this?

Move to Product from Strategy?

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Move to Product from Strategy?- Grapevine

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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

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Associate Product Manager

I have been working in front end consulting for around 2 years now (first job) and am struggling to understand my options in terms of career paths and in the long term. 
A) Would love to know more about some career trajectories post consulting + some people who have inspired you whom I can check out on linkedin (in case grapevine allows for it).
B) How feasible is a pivot to industry post consulting?

Post Consulting- what can I look forward to?

Business Development Manager

I joined my company (tech startup) as a Product Manager and over the course of 3 years have worked both in Product as well  as in Business teams. And to be honest, I like both the work.

Now, I am looking for a switch and unable to decide which role I should pursue - Product or Business. So, I would need help from you all. 

From a long term career point of view keeping in mind compensation, scope of work and transitioning into leadership positions (CXOs), which is a better role and why - Product or Business?

Which role would you prefer from an overall career point of view - Product or Business?

Product Manager

I am working as a Technical Associate and have 2 yoe
How can I explore product management sector.
Any suggestions?

Need Advice

Business Associate

Hi, I'm currently working as a Product Analyst at a promising startup, where I've been working on enhancing product delivery processes, keeping a check on deadlines (part of PMO), and driving client adoption for the past 1.5 years. 

Here my primary responsibilities involve conducting data analysis of projects and tickets, identifying trends and patterns, and providing insights to inform product decisions. However, I'm not directly involved in the core decision-making processes that shape product strategy.

This is my first job and I feel there will be nothing specific that I will own in project management and/or process excellence, there is nothing much to grow in this field, and pretty much anybody can replace this task, *please correct me if I'm wrong. 

I'm particularly fascinated by the prospect of building solutions that will directly impact our clients hence the real world, developing innovative product strategies, and bringing impact to the business. 

I have some questions and seeking guidance. Insights, personal experiences, or any guidance will help me a lot. Thanks in advance.

- Should I consider pursuing a product management role?
- Or should I step toward product strategy? 
- If I need to get into product strategy, how can I do that? is an MBA a must for this kind of role?
- Or are there other avenues that might be more suitable for my current skillset and experience?

Looking for answers and guidance on my career.

Product analyst

I want to know the right time to switch?
How much time should someone with 5-7 yrs of experience in product / business strategy spend in one company (ideally)?

Context: 
I am in a product strategy role where I am working with the founders and leadership team.
I have done engineering and MBA from tier 1 colleges.
I have 2 yrs of pre MBA and 4.2 yrs of post MBA experience. My Annual compensation is the range of 35-40 lpa.
Post MBA, I have done a startup for 1.5 yrs, worked in 2 unicorns for 1 yr each.
In a serious B funded startup right now with 9 months of experience.

Right time to switch?

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

I am an engineer working in Deloitte. Overall Exp 6.5yrs. My tech stack include Python, Data Science & AI-ML and GCP. I wanted to give it a try for product based company. I am not sure from where should I start? 

Just a little bit of guidance will really going to mean a lot to me. I come from a civil engineer background and I have reached Deloitte through lot of struggles. But I think I can reach further with some help.

Need a dronacharya in this kalyug 🙂

Thanks in advance.

Need a sincere suggestion from folks working in product based companies

Data engineer

To give a brief background, I did BTech in biotechnology from a tier 2 college which I soon realised didn’t have any interest in. Currently 24YOE

I took up a job as an operations analyst at a series b funded startup. Worked on internal tools + gsheets + SQL(basic select queries). Became expert of this internal tool but realised the skill and knowledge isn’t transferable. 

Got promoted to project analyst within a year and started handling internal teams + client comm. gave 1 year to this position. Currently at 8LPA

Now I am looking to switch and unable to understand which way should I go. 
Have interest in business strategy + data related work.

Unsure about career progression

Project Analyst

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My total experience:

3.5 Years: Channel Strategy & Growth: Life Insurance
1 Year: Co-founded Start-up: Manufacturing 
8M: Digital Products: Life Insurance

Not liking the PM role - any way that I can move to Startups in Biz Role without compromising on salary.

Need Advice: Want to move from PM role to Biz Role

Hey folks,
I'm wondering what kinda role I should pursue next after product management. 
I'm done with this role, works vary from company to company and team to team. It's tough to make people understand the difference between pre-PMF products & mature products, and how the metrics impact vary across the spectrum. 
And this completely changes the equation of your appraisal or your promotion as well. 
I don't see myself working in the same kind of role after 5 years.
So I'm wondering what kinda role I should look out for?
My general interests are more analytics & strategy centric. What do you guys think??

Where to go after Product???

Data Analyst

Hey people

I'm thinking of transitioning into PM or TPM role.
I've 5+ years of Software Engineering, 
I really like management side and have done alot of PM stuff in my previous and current org.

I make 3.5Ish monthly working in prod org.

SSE to PM

Software Engineer

Anyone moved support to product based roles. Don’t have any tech experience but would like to move a product based role. Where do I begin, seeing a lot of generic stuff out there but not sure what to do . Unemployed also so financially constraints too but my focus on landing a tech/ product role .

Anyone has suggestions or actually experienced the  above can help me out with this situation and where to begin.. don’t want generic stuff but a practical way of doing it

Want to move to a product role

Customer Success

Hello Everyone, 

I am a 2018 BTech (NIT) pass out and  2022 IIM pass out with a total of 2.2 years of Workex (1.2 yrs post-MBA) and currently working as an Associate Product Manager. I am not really enjoying my role and I feel Product Management is not suitable for me because of multiple reasons some of them being,


1. I am doing issue resolutions rather than problem-solving which I love to do.

2. I am not very much interested in driving technical discussions or solving technical challenges in the process of Product Development which is the case in my current role. 

3. I want to be part of a Business role where I can leverage the knowledge I have gained during my MBA and work on some problem statements related to the core businesses of the company. 

4. There is no skin in the game of a PM compared to Devs, QAs, and Designers. As a PM I feel I am just delegating, prioritizing, and following up with the requirements. Most of my learnings are around managerial aspects and not business knowledge. 

5. I want to be a part of business roles where I can go deeper into problems and come up with my recommendations/thoughts on them. 

I am looking for new roles where Strategy, Analysis and Core Business Problem solving are involved. I am really not sure what kind of roles are these. 

Please help me with the roles I can explore and how to approach the job search for such kinds of roles. 
Thanks In Advance.

Need Advice - Job Role Switch.

Thinking of switching to Product management and similar level roles.
I have around 9 years of exp in Saas production implementations.
Current organisations doesn’t have any such opportunities. 

What’s the best way to move forward here! Even open for 5-6 months on campus course. 

Please advise.

Genuine opinions needed

Thinking of getting into product and starting fresh, but the reduction in product roles going forward makes me think will I do another career step mistake . Please suggest

System Engineer

Having worked for 6 years across startups across different roles, I believe it's time to give back to society. Ask me Anything

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Growth And Strategy

How's the job market for Product Growth roles? 
I have 3 YOE and looking for a switch because Growth in the current company has become stagnant.

Also what's currently salary in the market for this role and experience.

Looking for job switch product growth roles

I recently made my first career switch and got a decent hike as well.
This is a Product/Analytics role.
Have been working for this since last few months and can say the job market is very giving at this point.
Would love to help anyone aiming for a similar switch in the same job role.

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