Anyone doing internal product management? I have been hired as a senior product manager by the people tech IT team at a big company. I come from a b2b product owner/business systems analyst background. On one hand, I am excited about the change and a chance to work with the real users of the product but my ex manager implied it might be good to move out soon if I don't want to pursue career in product management. Would love any insights.

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Yep, this happened to me as well! Started out as a PM working on a customer-facing product. Then some restructuring happened and I was transitioned over to a new product for internal users.

So this isn’t going to be a traditional PM role. Your users are now the people you work with and for that reason, you’re probably going to find that your business stakeholders will have more say and influence to your roadmaps and what features that you build. So if you like the discovery side of being a PM, then you might hate this. However, if you prefer the execution side of being a PM, then you may enjoy this role more.

You should really consider whether you want to commit to going down this path. If you ever want to be a PM with external customers/clients, then it’ll be difficult finding jobs in the future bc companies will be biased about this sort of thing.

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Yep, I ended up leaving that company after 5-6 months of working on the internal product and I work at a B2C company now.

It wasn’t so much the fact that I was working on an internal product but more so with how poorly they handled the transition. I had no choice in the matter and they ended up shifting/cutting resources everywhere. I found myself juggling more responsibilities than I felt comfortable with so I found a more stable job with better wlb. I’m happy where I’m at now so I def don’t regret my decision.

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