I'm a software engineer who is interested in breaking into product management. Does anyone have insight on how to make this transition?

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Great question: I’m currently in prod. mgmt and work with a lot of engineers. Start looking at the why behind your work, become passionate about the customer perspective, set up meetings product mgmt you work with and consider a PMP certification. I know of a open position at my company you could consider applying for. Let me know if you’re interested.

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Talk to internal product managers and get insights into what they do and what they may need help with (and then see if you can help them with that). Try to sit in on user research/usability sessions. Start reading pm books (inspired or cracking the pm interview is a good place to start) and YouTube (Diego is great). Andrew bowker on LI has good interview tips. It’s all about reframing/repositioning what you’ve done with a pm mindset/lingo. Also easier to move internally I would think.

First, don’t think problems like a engineer

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