Introduction

Does not matter where you come the end goal is what matters, be it Sales, Digital Marketing, Engineering, or some other domain of work altogether.

Come up Stories

We all need some assurance now and then in what we are trying to accomplish. Here are a few good reads to help you get a sense of how some really good Product Managers have transitioned into the role from different backgrounds.

Shifting gears from sales to product management

How to Become a Product Manager? My story of moving from Digital Marketing to Product Management. | Voucherify Blog

How I Moved From Engineering Into Product Management - Mind the Product

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGWkuRZi_jE&feature=emb_logo

Break into the role

Finally, some quality insights from PMs and PM coaches on how to get into the role of a PM.

How To Land a Product Management Job Straight Out of College

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5S0IPTXWEmfs0ksfndOMGF?si=lT4qrbzHQ6KPy21PRmTazQ

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4TWxYZ4XwGvyNVSxFhy0D0?si=YKyh18rdSUq27-O15AQ_tQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9ihoDHLyGQ

Core Competencies

Now that you know how to break into the role, you should know that to be a PM, a generalist, one is expected to have a variety of attributes.

Listed down here are a few common such attributes:

  1. Strategy
  2. Feature prioritization and road map planning
  3. Releases
  4. Ideation
  5. conducting customer interviews and user testing
  6. translating business-to-technical requirements, and vice versa
  7. defining and tracking success metrics

And so many more.