Product Management at Mckinsey
I nowadays see a lot of folks on LinkedIn as “Product Management at McKinsey and Company”. What are PMs doing in Management Consulting firms?
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I had interviewed with McK for their product management profile. They want the person to work for multiple companies and do pm stuff - requirement gathering, stakeholder management, define roadmap, collaborate with developers, oversee gym etc.
Their customers are the traditional cos who now want to go digital. So they need PMs.
It's 80% travel oriented job, so i said no.
Clearly they are overselling the Product owner profile as a PM profile.
Having a 3rd consulting PM who is splitting their time on multiple "client" projects is not at all beneficial for a company.
Fluffing
I also saw Sequoia posting a PM role and wondered how that would work.
VCs usually post for their portfolio companies from their profile for better reach, so it's very likely that
My friend worked as a product owner for one of their internal products. Cannot remember specifics though.
Don't they have some analytics platform or something