I'd consider, where possible, looking for opportunities within your company to hone the skills and make the transition over courses and education. I'd focus on three things:
- Build Relationships: Growth roles generally put you in the position of being responsible for a key business KPI. Find opportunities within your current role to build relationships with the other stakeholders driving that success, particularly those in Product Management. When considering someone who's making the switch, I look at their track record of working with people outside of their day-to-day and especially value those that have demonstrated working with PM.
- Demonstrate Insights Experience: Reach out to teams in UXR and research and/or leverage your own desk research. Bake those insights into the projects you work on in your day-to-day to demonstrate that you both know how to identify and action insights in your work.
- Seek Opportunities to Contribute: Get to know the roadmap of products coming and find opportunities within your scope to test and learn tactics that will contribute to a new launch. If you're working on customer acquisition and the team is launching a net-new feature, look for opportunities where your channels and experience could help them learn more about their product-market fit within a constrained testing budget.