How easy is it to move from professional services to technology and product at Salesforce?

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I started my career getting hard aligned to Salesforce at B4 Salesforce consulting. I used to think “I guess I’ll be a Solutions Engineer/CSG but I really want to be a Product Manager at some point so I’m not pigeonholed into just doing Salesforce implementations”. I am very fortunate to make the move to Product at A, but I was so close to doing the SE at SF and telling myself I could internally move. You won’t be the only one, and believe me that everyone will want to do the same move to Product as you. I believe you should make the move to Product now rather than doing more SF implementations if that is truly your interest.

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Care to share how you were able to make the jump to product management at Apple?

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Not the easiest unless you are a star achiever and have a good background for it anyways.

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I may be incorrect but if you skill up Salesforce are looking for decent SE’s.
If you cert up they will find it hard to not let you move.

You right, I thought it was on the Sales/Success side. My bad.

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