Anyone in a Product Manager role at a product-oriented tech startup? Considering lateraling to the position (currently a Sales Engineer at a startup) but would love an external perspective on the role

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Me. We are a SaaS startup and I'm ex-consulting. I was Tech Strategy under S&O. What would you like to know?

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For a little more context, I'm trying to figure out the next step I want to take career-wise. Don't want to continue down the sales path (SE management or Account Executive) and don't want to go straight technical (System Engineering or Software Dev), scoping out Product Management as a potential step.

Aren’t all tech startups focused on products?

I'd say some are more service-focused although they may use a software product to accomplish the services (i.e. Uber, Bird) - I'm talking more of a startup that is focused specifically on building and selling a software product (i.e. Tableau, DataBricks)

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