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How do you suggest transitioning into a different PM field? (E.g. if you're an internal PM, and you want to be a B2C PM, or growth PM, or B2B PM, how do you go about gaining the needed skills/making yourself more marketable?)

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  1. Mark Meredith
    Mark Meredith

    HashiCorp Director of Product Management • 9mo

    Building and proving new skills is often most obvious and effective through passion (side) projects. Of course you can read and take myriad classes and watch videos, but until you start trying to put these new skills into practice, the "marketability" of that knowledge on its own is not very high. As a PM, the impact you make speaks much louder than the skills you list on your resumé. So be creative. Find ways to learn those new skills practically. Find a mentor or two in the field you'd like to ...Read More

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  2. Julian Dunn
    Julian Dunn

    Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 1y

    Congratulations -- you are already a PM, so you're starting from a position of strength. Regardless of whether you are an internal PM, platform PM, B2B PM, B2C PM, etc. there are always common PM skills across these areas, so think about what is transferable and what is not, and emphasize those. For example, if I am hiring for a customer-facing PM role and I have an internal PM candidate in front of me who is trying to make the case that they are the best candidate for that, I have to be convinc ...Read More

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