When you wanted to pursue bio but made it to engineering. 🤣

Operations Analytics

Senior Consultant

Product Manager

Software Engineer

It’s a role where you manage the products that builder builds for customers :p

The above role is not in the product org, it’s in the delivery org 
  
 The culture is “Okay”-ish 
  
 Really depends on the product, team and manager 
 The core product work is not much

Company benefit: Made up amazing sounding titles

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WTF is 'Productologist'?

WTF is 'Productologist'?- Grapevine

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Hello, thanks for your patience. As someone from the creative industry I’d like to understand what product managers do exactly. 

What kind of companies hire Product Managers? 

As someone who has dwelled in copywriting, films, ads, and handling film production I’m looking to change towards Product Management. 
Are there any skills transferable to this professions? 

Appreciate your time.

Product Managers: What do they do?

Marketing Creative

I've never used anything else other than Product Manager as a title even though I was a PM and became a senior PM. People are using Product leader, Product Evangelist, Product Enthusiast and more irrelevant s*it. Do recruiters even care?!!

Saw this pic somewhere and it accurately depicts the idiocy.

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Hey all,

Can anyone refer me into product management domain roles in your organisation or suggest me if you know any openings it's been few months I am looking for job and recently did CSPO as well, TIA

Looking for APM or Product Owner or PM role

Operations Manager

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Prod guys - where do you learn all the stuff related to product usage and performance... lately hard time gathering and going through all the stuff related to metrics and performance..

any sources for this highly appreciated

Product

Program Manager

**The Good**

Let’s start with the positives, even though they are much better documented. It’s pretty easy to “fake it till you make it.” I am not alone in feeling the imposter syndrome. Yet, a huge part of being a PM is just asking good questions, learning, listening, and trying to be impartial. Coincidentally, that is exactly what you should do when you don’t know what you are doing—just try to learn. 

And honestly, it’s really fun. People like to harp on the challenges and skills you need to be a PM, but I feel like no one talks about how enjoyable the job is. You’re in the middle of strategy, business, design, and customers. Every day is about solving problems. It is hectic, yes, but it is also very rewarding. 

There’s another thing: people like you. It’s shallow to admit it, but the truth is, as a PM, you are delivering value to your company and stakeholders. People appreciate that. 

**The Bad**

But let’s not sugarcoat it; it’s exhausting. Even if you’re an extrovert (which I am not), spending hours in meetings, collaborating, and navigating requirements is exhausting work. The pressure can be overwhelming.

When you do badly, it all goes badly. When things are in sync, being a PM feels almost easy. But when the wheels start to come off, it is brutal. Deadlines get missed, you screw up MVPs, you piss off stakeholders, and you feel backed into a corner. It really isn’t fun to let down other people, but it really sucks when you let yourself down. Since so much of the PM job is interacting with internal and external stakeholders, your successes often feel hidden while your failures feel public. A lot of times, it’s because of things outside of your control too.

And then there’s the hard part: saying no. You have to say no a lot as a PM. Often, it is to people that far outrank you, like your CEO. There are countless books written about this topic, but no one is open about the fact that saying no kind of sucks. It feels good to give people what they want. Even though saying no is the right thing to do, that doesn’t make it easy or fun.

What are some truths (good and bad) about product management that noone talks about?

Hello everyone,

I am currently in a Senior Product Analyst role with five years of experience in the e-commerce and media domains. I am looking to transition into a Product Manager role and would greatly appreciate a referral and guidance on how to increase my chances of receiving more interview calls for such positions. Thank you.

Product Analyst to PM

Product analyst

Product Management

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 have been looking for a product role for a long time. My profile and experience are not suitable for a product management role. But I have realized that I have a good hold on operations stuff. 

Need your opinion on how a product ops manager role as a career option? Does it have the potential to be a demanding career in the future?

Product ops as a career?

Software Developer

What is Product ?

I am currently working in oracle to build the project management tools which also includes AI/ML integrations. Also I have a brief experience in E-commerce as a Developer. I have worked on Magento which is now Adobe Commerce. I have done certifications in Product Management also have won Product Management competition recently.
I am looking for a job change. If anyone have requirement of Product managers to build the project management tools or in E-commerce then please get in touch with me.

Product Manager Opportunities

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Note - I am a product manager too

4 out of 5 product managers will act all high and mighty of themselves, bragging their way as if they run everything going on in the company, flaunting their business degrees and being utterly disrespectful towards their team( dev design qa name it), 

Recently started going to office so the attitude I am seeing is very transparent and more visible (more with the higher experience folks)

It makes me wanna leave this hyper inflated role, thinking of I will end up like them scares me, and you have to do is speak out jargons in meetings day in day out and have a English accent of Shashi Tharoor.

Recently my manager told that this is a role where you have to very representable or very visible and act in floor as if you are the busiest person on earth and I seriously some PMs in company doing that, they walk so fast in floor as if they will fall off or would be better to have 4 legs.

I am done with this product management shit

Consultant, Investment Banking went from sought after careers to fads post 2008 crisis when the world realized that these folks are crooks due to their role in propogating the Great Financial Crisis.

Given the backlash tech companies has been getting and global layoffs, will Product Manager also become a passing fad?

Seeing lot of anti Product Manager sentiment on this app off late. Was Product Management also a fad?

Someone here said engineers can become PM but PM can't become engineers. It can't be more correct than this. But reality is, it sounds goods only in theory.  
  
  I asked this same question to my director, why have you hired us when engineers clearly know more about products than us and are capable?  His answered that before the organisation formally created a team of product managers, it was only engineers that were handling product for decades. But that resulted into substandard products being developed, chaotic product release and consistent drop in revenue. The reason being engineers became backlog managers and engineers beging engineers, never focused on business value. Instead, they focused on technical aspect heavily. Engineers never bothered to check if what they were developing will actually sell in the market or not.  
  
 And mind you, this was a product that all of us use in daily lives. The numbers of users in India alone would be millions. So to summarise, yes, engineers can become PMs but generally they stay loyal to their pedigree of BE/B.Tech and become very shitty PMs. They like to have more technical conversations than strategic discussions and hate things that are not quantifiable, subjective. And business facing people here in forum would know, things are always not quantifiable in business planning, market outlook. It is based on assumptions.  
  
 An excellent PM would be someone who is an engineer but knows how to focus on business value of the product, make it customer oriented etc. I had the pleasure of working of one such PM in my last stint and he was truly outstanding. CEO knew him personally and this is in an organization with thousands of employees

I am currently working in oracle to build the project management tools which also includes AI/ML integrations. Also I have a brief experience in E-commerce as a Developer. I have worked on Magento which is now Adobe Commerce.  I have done certifications in Product Management also have won Product Management competition recently. 
I am looking for a job change. If anyone have requirement of Product managers to build the project management tools or in E-commerce then please get in touch with me.

Product Manager Opprtunities

Some context - I’m a generalist  marketer knows about Seo/Content Marketing for B2B SaaS. Any sort of help would be appreciated.

How to become a Product Marketer?

Hey folks! 📣I’m a Product Owner/Manager with 7 years of experience in Product life cycle and agile with a knack for turning market trends into golden opportunities with automated strategies, and I’ve got the battle scars from the stock market to prove it. 

💼📈Looking for referrals to join a top-notch Stock Broking Firm. If you know anyone who can help, I’ll owe you more than just a cup of coffee—how about a few stock tips instead? 😉

Product Owner

I’ve noticed quite many people on this app are in the product team. Could you guys give an overview of the day to day work in such a profile and can a person from non STEM background break into product?

Product folks

Analyst

Hi everyone 
I am looking for role of Associate PM I have 2 years of PM experience in non tech company.
Any leads or help will be highly appreciated.

Looking for role of Product Manager.

Hi All,

I want to change my profile from data analyst to product manager.

What should be the necessary courses to do this?

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