Hello folks  I want to understand what is the natural progression of a B2B SaaS PM . What should one take care of when one starts gaining more experience . How should one stay relevant in the indus...

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Hello folks

I want to understand what is the natural progression of a B2B SaaS PM . What should one take care of when one starts gaining more experience . How should one stay relevant in the industry?

I am a PM with 4.5 years of B2B SaaS experience and before that I was a developer for 3.5 years.

Natural progression of B2B SaaS PM

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Product Management

Reaching out to all Product Managers! 

Looking for insights into possibilities for switching to a Consumer facing Product Manager role, when one has spent majority time in their career in a B2B PM role.

I’m in my early career stage (3 YOE, 25 YO) in Product Management with B2B firms. I really wanna switch into a B2C role - but I am worried that my experience is highly B2B centric and would limit my chances. Many companies come up with “n+ years in a B2C product” in their requirements. 

Looking for any tips from people more experienced, also if any PMs have made such a switch.

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Im a Product Manager 1yoe in a SaaS startup.
I had a good experience in the first year. I got to build a product 0-1, competitor analysis, work on creating prioritization frameworks, UAT, content marketing, wireframing.

However, since January the compamy started their stabilization phase, and PM's are now taking care of Sales and lead generation(Content, Ads etc.). The nail in the coffin is we are getting dragged to follow up renewals( Customer Success) 🤢

Im currently motivated to building something new, and it feels like we are being dragged into everything as the company does not want to hire. With no pay hike or any adfitional benefit.

Please advice. Should I look for a new job?

Need advice

Hi All, 

Can someone with 4-6 years of PM experience in the B2C space shift to companies such as Salesforce / Intuit? Lately, I have been feeling that there is a lot of applications for B2C roles and there is hardly any fulfilment with respect to the work, primarily everyone is just copying features.

So, if someone could guide how to do this would be grateful

Transition from B2C to B2B

I last did a full fledged PM Role 5 years ago at an early stage startup (B2B SaaS). Post that moved on to building my own startup, spent the early years exclusively hands on the product (0-1) but last 28 months or so since my cofounder joined, I let him manage the product strategy and lifecycle since I had to take the lead on Sales and other aspects 

My current work with regards to product is more or less product vision and feedback. I feel I need to up my game in building my product skills to a higher level now as the product is getting mature and we are aiming to go global soon. I unfortunately don’t have anyone to mentor at the moment. 

How should I go about doing this ? Do you think going back to something like a product school for a 15 week Program could help ?  The outcome I hope is set myself on the path to become a good Product Strategy leader with reasonable acumen on processes and systems and at the same time translate the learning to help scale the product better.  

Would be happy to take some ideas or places to look at for one. TIA

How to polish PM Skills ? Founder (B2B SaaS)

Founder

Hey folks!
Lately I have a feeling  of stagnation in my career as a PM. I started as an APM, got promoted and then after a switch back as an APM ( better work).
What are your thoughts on how one should look at progressing?

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How difficult is it to transition from a PM at a B2B startup to becoming a PM at a B2C one?

If anyone has done this recently, was there are any upskilling required? 
What is the sentiment when you apply for such roles?
Is there a significant difference in pay?

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How does the growth and expectation and learning graph differ in both the cases? What's adviced for a fresher to start with?

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Future of PM -B2B

I am currently working as a PM in B2B Space. But I want to develop PM Skillsets for B2C space as well. 

Can someone  please share what are most important skills/tools a B2C PM Should know. 
Do share relevant resources if possible!

B2C PM Skillset

This is not a question for the cocky new grad in the overvalued startup, but for the few seasoned PMs that still reply out here.

Where do PMs go after they peak?

By peaking I mean arriving at a GPM or Staff PM position at the top 10-15 companies (you can do your own ranking here).

Nobody has the true statistics but I will use the assumption that 75% (debatable) of those who peak, will get laid off within 2 years from their ‘peak role’. The remaining will be able to progress into DoP and VP in the same top company or another in the top 15.

Where do they go then?

I am pretty positive, from experience, that they don’t go any up.

Do they go down the ladder of new startups for titles and ending up in the worst ones after being laid off 4-5 times? Do they quit all together?

Do they open a farm?

Do they start their own startup?

Comments and thoughts folks!

Where Do PMs Go After They Peak?

Software Developer

I feel I am just bored of Designing as a job. I was looking for steps to land an APM role in the startups without an MBA ;-;

I have 2YOE in B2B SASS. But, I want to switch to PM roles

UX/UI Designer

Hey everyone, excited to be doing this AMA!

A brief about me, I work currently as a Director of Product at an Indian unicorn startup 

About my career: 
- Did my undergrad from IIT and then masters from an Ivy league school
- Have been in product for almost 10 years now - across 2 Indian unicorn startups and a publicly listed company

Would love to take questions on what it means to be a PM, growing within the role, building your career, and other things :) 

Will be back here at 4 pm and start replying
Shoot away!

AMA 🎙️: Hey all, I am pmsprint, Director of Product Management at a Unicorn in India!

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i have been program manager for about 2 years in non-tech role mostly working on analytics, customer success and operation with major expertise in data analysis. 

Now I am trying to upskill myself so that I can earn more and also become more relevant to companies

My Question is

1. What should I do in next 1 year to upskill myself
2. What job roles and organisation should I look for starting next year
3. How career growth looks like for program manager 5 years down the line

Please help this lost girl!

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