AMA: Salesforce Senior Director of Product Management, Manjeet Singh on Product Management Career Path

The products I admire most are the ones that don't just solve a problem — they fundamentally redefine how you work and make you question why you ever did it the old way. As of this month, Claude Code does exactly that, and a few others come close.It thinks like an engineer, not a chatbot. it reads your entire codebase, debugs, runs tests, and iterates autonomously like a real teammate, not just a snippet generator. Terminal-native design is pure product taste. they met engineers exactly where th ...Read More

Honestly, enterprise architects are already closer to being great PMs than most people realize. You understand how complex systems work, you deal with stakeholders all day, and you know how to make technical tradeoffs. That's a massive advantage.The thing that trips up most architects making this switch is wanting to be comprehensive. In architecture, completeness is a virtue. In product, speed and focus win. You don't need the perfect planI would say, start where you are. Don't wait for a PM ti ...Read More

There are lots of transferrable skill between the two. Stakeholder management, prioritization, shipping under constraints same game. - Just swap "enterprise buyer" for "user" and show you care about people, not just deal sizes. Do the work before the interview. Pick a B2C product you use, write up what's broken and what you'd fix. That one artifact proves you can think in retention and user behavior. Most switchers skip this. Your B2B experience is a weapon if you can practice reframing. Most B2 ...Read More

Your project management skills transfer more than you think. -Scoping work, managing stakeholders, dealing with tradeoffs and deadlines — that's PM life. Reframe your construction experience in product language.Practice: Take a product you use daily, write a one-pager on what you'd improve and why. Put it on LinkedIn or a portfolio siteTarget companies that build for your industry. Construction tech is booming. Use ChatGPT to find the list. Reachout to few people on linkedin.. to start the convo ...Read More

Don't ask someone "will you be my mentor" - just start a conversation. Comment on their posts, ask one sharp question, share something they'd find interesting. Every good mentor I've had started because I kept showing up and engaging, not because I sent a formal ask. Be where the PMs are. Sharebird, LinkedIn, local meetups, Slack groups whatever works. Just be visible. Share what you're learning, ask real questions. The right people notice when you're consistently adding to the conversation. Giv ...Read More

Yes, AI is eating the "execution layer" of product management: writing PRDs, crunching data, building dashboards, even synthesizing customer feedback. But here's what it's actually doing: it's raising the floor, not lowering the ceiling. The PMs who thrive won't be the ones who fight this shift: they'll be the ones who redirect their energy toward the skills AI can't replicate: judgment under ambiguity, task for what good looks like, cross-functional influence, systems thinking, and the ability ...Read More