Join an EdTech startup.   
  
 The fun and games would make you wistful about the awesomeness of the staid and boring Renewables space. 
  
 Head back to Renewables after you've had this exciting ride.

Haha, I like the last note from you.  
 BTW 
 Is there any specific skill set that I need to learn and focus on?  
  
 And how much do you think I can go for ? 70/80 lpa?

Senior Program Manager

You should look at options in the following sectors: 
  
 Digital Twin / IoT 
 Robotics 
 Drones 
 Defense manufacturing  
  
 All near neighbourhood to your automotive experience and a long ramp / runway available to grow.

Sales Manager

Thanks Man. I will explore something around it. 
  
 Really appreciate. If you are in Hyderabad I owe you a beer or coffee :)

Hey Guys, I am here seeking your suggestions for future.   12 YOE  (6 years Automotive + current 6 in Renewables ) 52 LPA (42+10) + some USD in RSU  Job/Skills : Mix of program and product manageme...

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Hey Guys,
I am here seeking your suggestions for future. 

12 YOE  (6 years Automotive + current 6 in Renewables )
52 LPA (42+10) + some USD in RSU

Job/Skills : Mix of program and product management.

Now the point is I am bored with PMO work and I don't know where to go in future. Solar renewable industry is very volatile and very niche.

Feels like I am not growing and I don't see much people in PMO growing. Mostly they are late 70s people who are content with their life and I am still willing to run, learn and grow.

What I want - I am confused which market and position to explore from here, and if I can adapt it or not.

Any advice or discussion is really helpful.
Appreciate it.

Seeking suggestions for future

Seeking suggestions for future- Grapevine

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

Need Advice

Business Associate

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

I'm in serious trouble.
I was an sde for 3+ years. Didn't like it, thought it's not meant for me and wanted a different job. 
Came across Product management, which piqued my interest. Somehow found a contract job at a startup and did it for a year. While it's not a traditional PM, it was more of a project manager.

The contract ended, now I'm unemployed.

Applied for jobs, no luck. Now I'm questioning my career choices, should I stick with PM or should I go back to being a techie. I definitely don't want to go back to coding, but I'm thinking of doing something like IAM/okta/cyberark stuff. 

Experienced folks, please help. I literally don't know where am I headed in life

Career help!

Project Manager

Hi, I know it’s a much debated topic but I wanted honest views of my fellow grapers/viners/grapeviners. How valuable is an MBA as a PM? What are the trade-offs - MBA vs Non MBA? Does it affect the career 10 years down the line?

About myself: I’ve 3.5 years of work experience as a PM in the BFSI sector. I did my engineering from a tier 1 institute and started my career as a PM. Currently wondering what to do next. The learning experience in the current company has been below par as of today with no signs of improvement. I would like to explore VC, PE but I’m happy with PM too. 

If you are pro MBA, bonus points for suggesting any relevant courses. If against, then please suggest any upskilling resources 🙌🏻

TIA

MBA as a PM

Product Manager

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

i am product manager with 6yoe and with some good brands. but lately i am wondering if this is peak and future demand of software product manager with no hands on coding experience will keep declining 

i sometime feels that either i have to learn coding (which i am learning) or else find a hard core industry like EV, renewable energy, batteries, semiconductor etc 

whats your thoughts? super curious to learn what you all feel about digital product manager?

also one question where i appreciate your feedback - I have not done MBA yet but contemplating it now to make switch industry to non software. I know this is very non traditional but would love to hear feedback

is software product manager role over?u

I am currently managing a product, which has not really scaled up as expected over the last 1.5 years.

Hand to heart, I can say I have given my best in terms of efforts but still the outcomes are not as expected due to many factors beyond my control.

Now this has created a perception amongst senior management that my team is working very slowly and not able to build what customers want.

It is very difficult to change this perception in short term

I have asked for change of product portfolio multiple times but that is not getting entertained.

Any suggestions if I want to stay in this company (other than the very obvious - looking for opportunities outside the organisation.)

Career dilemma- Product Management

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

Consultant

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Almost 4 years since I am working in various sales and BD roles post MBA. Have worked with FMCG and Ecomm companies.
Done with chasing numbers everyday and looking for some strategic / mindful work.
What are the possible next roles other than sales?

Note - not looking for category/account management sort of roles. Been there, done that.

Need some inputs from seniors!

I completed education from tier 1 colleges (MBA and Engineering both from coveted IIM and IIT). After MBA, I joined Wall Street bank and life was really good. Was enjoying the perks of a MNC although the work was also excruciating but was an overall good experience.

Left it for a startup (fast growth kida in me led this decision). Worked in the startup across multiple roles, learned a lot of new things. Tried staying away from office politics and earned a good name in the circle. But growth (read pay) was not that enticing and was not growing hence decided to leave. Was naive enough to quote this reason to business head and HR as well. Obviously it didn't go well with anyone.

Joined startup2, changed cities and joined it. The role was similar, although my manager was an epitome of a toxic manager. Was doing good but he always was able to find some or the other mistake in my work. If he would not find any mistake then he would suggest some tangential hypothesis and then reprimand me for not thinking about it. Was so toxic that I didn't take leave when my wife was hospitalized and giving birth to our child.
Tried doing everything possible but couldn't save the job and got laid off in the 1st lay off wave.

Was shattered. Confidence was at rock bottom. Tried searching for roles. Luckily I got into startup3 who had remote work at that time. Although I joined the marketing team (which was not at all related to my previous work) thus creating a mess of my profile.
Worked hard but in a "restructuring" exercise got laid off again.

Within a year 2 lay offs with random work and no concrete direction in work. 
Now searching for roles but not able to find anything suitable as I was in non-core roles and in this difficult time everyone is looking for cheap resources with 1-3 yoe and not looking for 7+ yoe with generalist profile.

Contemplating starting from zero in Marketing or learning coding/Data science so that can start my career again with right basics.

I fucked up my career

@NaivePoint62 : pls visit careers sites of any company and share with me CV and job ids, I will see if I know anybody there who can refer you.

Senior Product Manager

Growth Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Hey Grapeviners, 

I need some serious help. 

Bit about myself - just graduated this month and working as an APM at a seed stage startup. I have 1.5 years of product experience and 3 years of overall experience as an intern. 

Lately, not sure why but I am loving what engineers do. Closely working with them, and I guess it's nostalgic for myself. Because I did coding for 6 months and moved on for some reason. So, I understand how tech actually works. Have got good feedback regarding this. 

At the same time, I am not really finding the true value of what I am doing everyday. Feels a void inside. 

Also, I am not able to discuss all these things in person with someone, because I fear that they will judge me after doing internships for 3 years, I still haven't figured out my career. Such a loser I am. 

I have been thinking about starting coding again and maybe switching to a coding job in the next 6 months maybe. But again it would be tough for me as I only got weekends for me to learn all this stuff. 

What do you all experienced folks suggest? What should I do? 

Please comment if you can help 🙏

Switching from PM to Engineer

Indian. I am a SDE (backend) currently. ~2 yrs exp. 16 LPA and I work 40-50 hrs a week. I like where I am, but I am not feeling the zeal for tech anymore. Probably will do a MBA down the line (thinking abroad, not sure) 

Looking for equal or greater pay, similar WLB, new domain. Should I switch to PM and try a hand at it? 

Am I aware of the reality or living in my own isolated reality?

Switch to PM?

Software Engineer

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!

looking out for transitioning from SDE to PM but not able to get offers. Any suggestions ? YOE - 2

Transitioning from SDE to PM

I am a PM with 10+ years experience. I am now interviewing with Meesho for Heading their lending vertical. This is not a pure PM role but it involves setting up a vertical grounds up. Not sure if this is a right role for my career right now. Any thoughts would be appreciated 😌

Senior folks (10+ years). Have you switched from PMing to some other role?

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

Hi all, I'm a PMO at  Accenture associate level with 1.5 yoe.
I don't have much work and I am free 90% of the time and I also wfh.
My base pay is 4.26 lpa.
Should I shift to a technical role and if yes which role and what should I prepare for?
If not is this PMO profile good for earning more money?


PLEASE ANSWER

Career change or not?

Hello everyone 
So a little about me: I’m a software developer working in a fintech startup in MOHALI.
2022 pass-out interned in the same startup as a backend intern in node js which was then converted into a full time offer after 6 months. Worked in node for almost 1.5 years, then switched to python + ops 
Starting compensation was 7 lpa and currently is 9 lpa. 
Thinking about switching but at the same time market looks risky as well.
Need suggestions for what to do, be it tech stack(is python in demand or node in demand?) , job change

Need Suggestions

Software Developer

Hello everyone,

I'm seeking suggestions and guidance on transitioning to a Product Management role.
I've been in the services-based industry for the past 1.5 years and I'm eager to make this transition as soon as possible.
Any advice would be highly appreciated.

Transition to Product

Project Coordinator

Hello! I am an entrepreneur who has 4+ years of relevant experience as a business analyst and of Product Manager. I am looking for a PM opportunity, as I could not scale my venture.

My experience was majorly focused in the growth domain with e-commerce and SaaS projects. I have completed a couple of PM courses to brush up my knowledge.

I have applied for 200+ companies in the past month, but did not hear back from anyone.

Kindly share any advice so I can upskill myself more effectively. 
Also please share some insights on how I can get referrals from my network.

PM - Skill enhancement/ Career growth

How's the PM job market now? Is it expected to improve? Been struggling since 6 months now. Not clear on how to manage career.

Seeking suggestions for future

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