What's a typical product manager career path?
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 4y
There is a fork in the PM career path road: one is becoming a people manager, the other becoming an expert in a deep thinking product area sans managing a team. My recom...
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Scribe VP of Product | Formerly LaunchDarkly, New Relic • 1y
This is somehow the simplest and toughest question on here 🙂 Your typical PM career path can look like: PM: Responsible for a KPI or set of features Senior PM: Responsib...
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Meta Product Leadership - Ads, Commerce & AI | Formerly Stripe, Flipkart, Yahoo • 3y
This is a very interesting question and one that I keep touching upon on almost all career conversations with my teams & mentees. There is no one typical career path ...
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Carta Sr. Director of Product Management | Formerly Salesforce, MuleSoft, Apple • 4y
There are different paths that each product manager takes, but the common ones I've seen are: 1. Joining a tech company as an Associate PM or an intern straight from coll...
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Atlassian Head of Product, DevOps • 1y
I don't think there is a typical product career path! Many of the PMs I have worked with or hired have changed careers and moved around in different roles. I see people e...
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Barracuda Networks Sr. Director, Product Management • 2y
In the field of product management, there isn't really a "typical" career path. Product management is highly flexible. Some product managers may transition into related f...
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Splunk Director of Product Management • 2y
The answer depends on the size of the company. But if I generalize, if you are a new grad or new to the function, then your first job would be Product Manager. Then, depe...
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