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How can someone from a different field like engineering transition to product management?

Nikita Jagadeesh
Google Product Lead - Google Cloud1y
Great question. In my personal career journey as well as several hires I’ve made I’ve always found it helpful to try the new role before you go all in. When I was at a st...
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Jacqueline Porter
IBM Product Management1y
Product management is not a field that someone usually formally studies for and gets into. This is typically a field where someone gains domain expertise and transitions ...
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Milena Krasteva
Walmart Sr Director II, Product Management - Marketing Technology3y
Fairly easily potentially, compared to transitioning from other less-related fields. Product Management is as much art as it is discipline or science. Leveraging technica...
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Neil Kulkarni
Cisco Director of Product Management1y
For any career transition, it comes down to being clear in your mind and being able to articulate answers to the the following questions"Why" are you seeking this transit...
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Mamuna Oyofo, MBA
Shopify VP of Product4y
I'm a fan of pairing. Often times Engineering works so closely with product, it is easy enough to sit more closely with your product partner and work through problems tog...
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Lexi Lowe
Hex Head of Product | Formerly Fivetran1y
I think most great PMs come from a different field first. I have not worked with anyone who hasn't but I know they're out there. This is because the context that you gain...
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