More interesting is how you made PM and current compensation with an arts background. Care to share your story?
worked in a small 20-people team start-up in my first job in a marketing/community role and then outperformed in terms of generating innovative ideas to grow fast. Founders didn't have money to pay so just gave the PM title - post that, leveraged the title + reccos from those folks in other start-ups I worked in, in the same sector. It's mostly about right place, right time
Bhaijaan, leave everything and start an AMA, this looks like one hell of a story!
Literally on the same boat. I did journalism, been a PM for 2 years now, approx same package and been considering ISB only for the reason that it’s been hard for me to switch to a different company. Totally looking to treat it as an opportunity to expand my career options.
Arts background and PM? Share ur journey
Marketing in an agency to product marketing in a smaller team (big company but small team), picked up some additional responsibilities, focused on a niche (zero to one and driving adoption primarily which needed heavy marketing and design lifting to which I was able to contribute to easily) and moved as a PM to a different company. And honestly, building relationships outside work, networking helped greatly. People were able to vouch for me when I was looking to shift.
You've already cracked the ceiling for most arts background folks in terms of salary. MBA won't really help much beyond this point unless it's a top tier college possibly outside India.
I have a contrarian view here - Yes, you should go for it.
My reasoning - I don’t know your current employer but product hiring managers have a bias “against” non-Tech education background PMs. ISB or IIMs (1 yr) can put your growth on an accelerated path. Possibilities of cracking tier-1 Product firms will be higher. In terms of compensation growth, don’t expect too much. But 4-5 years is a sweet spot for MBA.
Is 1 yr comparable to 2 year?
I work as a PM in a B2B SaaS startup and have an overall 4 years of experience all of which is in product management. Now, feeling a stagnant in growth and salary. I was wondering if I should try for an. MBA from IIMs or ISB?
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I'm standing at a career crossroads and could really use some perspective. Profile : -YOE-3yrs. -2 years in a technical role and
