Hi all, I have completed my graduation this year in April and landed in banking sector due to College one placement policy. I want to switch from Banking to PM role, any suggestions from you all wo...

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Hi all, I have completed my graduation this year in April and landed in banking sector due to College one placement policy. I want to switch from Banking to PM role, any suggestions from you all would be appreciated. Can suggest a road map.
Thanks in Advance.

Swtching Career from Banking to PM

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Swtching Career from Banking to PM- Grapevine

Hi,

8 YOE, Security engineer trying to switch to PM role. Studied everything related to PM. Joined cohort based course who promised interviews but nothing came. Currently writing cold emails.

I am expert at cyber security who can understand code, write scripts, do front end dev, can design

What should I do to land a PM role?

Trying to find PM role for past 6 months without success. What should I do?

Security Engineer

Hi All, I'm working as a PM in a private bank. Prior to this I had worked as a Business PM in another bank 😅
My experience is that work expectations, KRAs of bank PMs are not in line with what is standard. Mostly stuck with meaningless work, getting very few conceptual projects. Feel like I am a glorified BA, who receives additional shit shovelling from senior mgmt.
Unable to get in depth experience in any vertical.
Earning 20LPA, experience 2.8 years. 

Need advise should I move out of PM and target Biz roles?

Unsure about PM career

Product Manager

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

How does one move from Analytics to Product Management roles? 

I have ~2.5 years experience in Business Analytics. Recently I have been working on ML use cases as well. I also have product analytics experience.

I really feel like I would do better in a PM role because working on a product end to end really excites me and I can use my analytics experience in that role as well.

Bur how does one do this transition? Do companies accept your  CV if you have nil PM experience but still wanna move into this role?

Anyone who has made this transition, could you comment how you did it?

Analytics to PM transition

I am working as a campaign manager with Adobe India. I will be completing 6 years in experience into Digital Marketing field. My work is mostly around Advertising technologies. 

I want to transition in PM role. Can you guide me where should I start and what should be my road map?

I want tranistion into PM. Currently working with Adobe.

Digital Marketing Manager

Tier 1 MBA, 5 years of consulting plus corp strategy experience, 2 years data science exp pre MBA. Current ctc around 45.

Speaking to friends etc in the PM roles, I've developed an interest in the role. And would like to give it a fair shot. Just can't seem to figure out how. Any pointers would be really helpful.

Those of you who managed to break into a PM role after upto 5 years of non-PM work ex, how did you go about it?

Strategy & Operations

Hi all , I have recently transitioned into a PM role after having worked  in Strategy role for 4 years. I am planning to move to Australia / Europe due to personal reasons. Any advice on how can we scout and get jobs outside India for a PM role ? 

Thanks

Searching for PM role outside India

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I have more than 10 years of experience in mobile and web technologies. I have experience in project management also but my designation is Tech lead/Member Technical Staff.

Currently I am looking to switch into PM role but in many companies my resume directly gets rejected.

I have tried lots of combinations from Chat gpt but still no success.

Please any advice from experience guys or from HR.

Looking for a job in the PM role

How easy is it to switch from PM to product marketing manager ? I am currently working as PM and was considering a role change, what other roles accept PM ?

Alternate career path for PM

Hi guys, 
I have between 5-6 years of experience in engineering role (QA/Test automation). However over these years I have found the role to be unfulfilling due to the growth, impact and visibility. 
I have been considering going for a full time executive MBA (In India/Abroad) to switch into a PM/Strategy role. 
Wanted to understand if this is going to be really worth it, considering I will have high chances to start again at an entry level position? Or is this common to do post MBA?

Worth shifting into a PM role after 6-7 years of eng experience?

Software Engineer

I have 7+ years of experience as a QA Engineer but am not willing to continue in this field. Thinking of switching to PMM riles what should I do where should I start

Career Switch from QA to PMM

Software Developer

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?

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

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

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 am currently working in a non-tech related role after MBA for 3 months.Had previous work experience in tech as application support engineer.Is it possible for me to switch to product management related roles given current market situation?

PM role switch

Analyst

I am a 3rd year student from tier -3 private college, pursuing btech  is it possible to get PM roles just after under graduation, have seen people from tier -1/2 pursuing vague branches like coal mineral sort of engineering and still be able to crack roles as a PM at tech companies . Also one should aim for a role like this after undergrad or just it demands more exp? Also any roadmap you would recommend

PM role after Undergrad ?

Sharing some reflections on this:

1. Product is not a function with a large hierarchy / multiple levels in the ladder. Managerial responsibility comes in very late in the product career and the spans are typically small (relative to other functions like engineering, sales, operations). This also means a steeper funnel to the top and only a handful VP Product roles in the industry.

2. Product is centered around technology and digital consumer trends, both of which are fast changing. This requires constant unlearning and relearning. But more critically, this also means that previous knowledge/experience hits a plateau on marginal value beyond a basic threshold (where you have developed some essential product semse and skills).

3. Product managers are also much higher-paid vs other functional peers, at comparable years of experience. This means that a PM gets to a very high salary (say, 1+ crore) by the age of 40 (15-20y into their career). Tech functions in non-tech companies (like FMCG, banking) cannot offer that kind of pay, meaning salary growth beyond a point is limited to tech-first companies / limiting addressable market for lateral moves.

All of these considererd, how should PMs think about the longevity of their careers? Unlike traditional roles, this does not seem like a "retire at 60" job. What would be the realistic age one should plan for, at which career growth and salary growth will stagnate? What are ways in which a 80%ile PM can extend their career (eg: also taking up engineering management or P&L responsibility or growth function etc., to increase scope)?

PS: this post is not for the top 5-10% PMs. They will always find roles at VP level etc, this is for the 50-90%ile bucket of PM talent.

Longevity of a product career

Will commend you on a very well written and well articulated post. 
  
 Options for the future will be apparent at ~40.  Most peak roles will be achieved between 45-50. 
  
 Possible exits: 
  
 1. Running Category roles at companies which have a broad canvas, multiple product categories. 
 2. Deputing for and eventually running a P&L or a LoB. 
 3. Sales or more critically Customer Success.  Don't shy away from revenue responsibilities. 
  
 Engineering is a sharp left turn imo.  It's not an overlapping skillset at best and don't see how that is part of a PMs likely roadmap.

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