Has anyone made the leap from Account Management to Product Management? Prior to being in an AM position I was a Creative Producer.

I don’t have much experience on the back end of product management but have extensive experience in front end development/user experience.

Any tips on breaking into the Product Management field? I have a call with a recruiter next week to discuss their open Product Management roles.
Thank you

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FE experience from an account and creative perspective or FE in a more technical standpoint? Because having come from advertising as a product manager and also working in tech companies, how a creative or AM views FE is usually different than product does. You will likely need some knowledge of BE since a lot of BE work like configurations or API are crucial to being able to prioritize work and understand dependencies.

Thank you for this generous reply, incredibly helpful! I guess my main question to the recruiter will be what technical skills are required of the position. To your question of why the interest in product management since it’s more technical. I had read about PM positions that are less technical (including the content position I’m interested in) but from your responses it sounds like maybe these “less technical” PM positions are inaccurately named & are not actually a representation of what a PM does.

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