Why do so many people want to exit to product management? I see some product manager role requiring 5-8 years of experience, others made it with only 2 years of experience. What exactly does a product manager do?

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Imagine you are the CEO of one particular product within a company. Driving its future capabilities and features, increasing the amount of users, make the product more revenue generating, etc. depending on a the company, you could be directly influencing products millions of people use

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How do you transition from a consulting role to a PM role?

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Thanks captain obvious... I meant the skills of course

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It’s a high paying, high impact role where you don’t necessarily need deep technical skills to be successful (depending on where you go to). It’s also a chance for you to exit to a tech company and not be a cost center.

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@D3 you typically want your software to talk to other software. SQL allows you to self-serve data pulls across products.

As a PM, if I asked SWEs on my team to do this, I’d get laughed out of the room.

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Post this in the PM bowl.

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I bet M1 is hardly sure what she/he does as a “consultant.”

Can someone link the PM bowl? I cant find it

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