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I probably won't give notice until Monday, which is going to be reaaaaal difficult to wait to do.
More of a startup, but been around for close to 10 years and just closed a new (not first) round of funding for several dozen mil. So they're expanding rapidly.
May wind up being a bit client side as they will be wanting to do a design rebrand and stuff with an external agency in the nearish future, but that's not the team I would be working on. I'm moving to a product owner/manager role for their web/ecomm which is exciting and challenging!
You're making a lot of unfounded assumptions off of the little information you have from this vague thread. Frankly, I shouldn't even acknowledge this with a response, but it's so incredibly off-base it's amazing.
I have not been a PM my entire agency career, nor have I been at agencies my entire career. My pre-agency background is in tech and I also know how to code in several languages and have been working on a side ecomm biz for two years.
A round of funding does not mean a company needed it to be stable. It actually more often means growth in another area. This company is actually very profitable and has been for most of the decade they've been around. They have a recent huge partnership with a major telecom company that is about to take them to an even bigger level. That's on top of their ever-expanding partnership with one of the largest ecomm companies in the country.
And there's a big difference between working half the hours (8 vs 16) and "working twice as hard."
But hey, if you need to shit on someone else's good fortune to get yourself by.. You do you.
Client side or something else?
Going client side or leaving the biz all together?
Don't give notice until you get that letter in writing and have it counter signed and the money and benefits are to your satisfaction! Congrats!
Thank you! I'm leaving regardless. It's just been a matter of how soon. Relocating about 100 miles (FH has to relocate there for his career/program 👰🏼🤵🏻). We've been expecting it would be this month.
Actually wasn't planning to apply anywhere until after we moved, but I applied for just this one job because they wanted someone with agency experience and offered relocation assistance. What are the odds!
I don't know what ad tech is, but this company has been around for almost a decade and is very stable. I have no desire to get back into agency life aka 2x the work for 50% of the pay. Hard pass!
Awesome! I have been trying to get out of this industry for a while with no luck
Congrats!!!
Casper?
You can always come back to agency life when the ad tech company inevitably fails!
If they're hiring an agency PM to run all of their Ecommerce they can't be that stable? I wish you all the luck in the world but most venture backed companies are intended to be harvested. Constant pressure to get acquired. They just got a round of capital, that's good but that means they needed it to fund operations. Stability is relative. Most eTailers are not profitable. You have to see ongoing revenue growth to remain attractive. I've seen the impact of missed revenue targets and it's not pretty. If you're working half as hard in the new job for twice as much money what does that say to investors?