For ex-consultants that moved to PM role, can you please share how you did it?

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One way is to find a closely adjacent team as an intermediate step. Plenty of people have come from MBB to my team (product strategy at a big tech company) and then after 1-3 years shifted to PM, whether in this or another company. I’m thinking about a very similar move within the next ~6 months

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What is the company? Any relevant open roles?

Apply to Amazon.

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What about IBM PM?

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If you want to get into Product management at start ups or big tech, the easiest way is finding an ex consultant who is a pm at those companies and network (ob I make it sound easy and Ull need to work on ur resume and ur experience at mckinsey). Is usually hard for MBB consultants at associate+ levels to get call from tech recruiters as they don’t see our ex fit for a PM role. Happy to chat as I went thru the process recently

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I assume OP means product management rather than program or project management.

Respondents, please state your background. It makes a difference if you had a background in computer science or tech work experience either before or since becoming a consulting.

In my experience at an M7 business school, I have seen a few people with comp sci degrees, software engineering experience or tech experience go to business school, join consulting for 2-4 years then go into product management.

Amazon is the most open to consultants or non-technical MBA grads to get a product manager role, in part because Amazon separates technical from non-technical product management roles.

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Worked in corp strat for a year closely with product leads and was offered to change over

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Can you share examples of non faang big tech?

Like bcg said, Amazon has non-tech PMs which in some cases means roughly the same as project managers. It’s pretty easy to tailor a consulting resume to non tech PM roles.

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