How are PMs that worked on products across multiple industries perceived while evaluating for a PM role in a new/different industry? How can they sell themselves better? Wouldn't the outside perspective bring fresh external breath to the existing product ecosystem? Learning from the best practices in other industries can help immensely, isn't it? Your thoughts?

E.g. A PM with experience working on products across industries like Telecom, CGR, BFS, Insurance etc applying for a PM role in a product company that is in healthcare space. How can they sell themselves?

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Liron Deutsch

Product Management Leader • 8mo

Experience across multiple industries is a real strength for a PM. It shows adaptability, curiosity, and the ability to learn fast, all essential traits for product leaders. PMs who have worked across different domains often bring fresh perspective, pattern recognition, and a broader toolkit of approaches. They are usually quicker to identify transferable insights, connect dots between seemingly unrelated problems, and challenge assumptions that long-time insiders may not even see. When intervie ...Read More

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Advaita Nigudkar

BILL Director Product Management • 9mo

I genuinely believe that great product management is largely domain-agnostic. If you’ve built strong PM fundamentals — customer discovery, problem definition, roadmap prioritization, data-driven decision-making, and cross-functional execution — you can flex those muscles across industries. The core craft doesn’t change, even if the context does. That said, some roles do have a steeper learning curve — especially deeply technical or domain-specific areas like identity, core infrastructure, risk/f ...Read More

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