I recently left after 9 yrs in IBM.
I wouldnt recommend it. In IBM, PM are expected to do both outbound and inbound work while working as program managers and everything else.
Only engineering and PM take responsibility for everything while everyone else does their own thing, fight and dont suppprt you. You ll end up doing
- product vision
- product execution
- product ideation
- product marketing
- product GTM
- product pricing
- product contract management
- field and sales enablement
- customer meetings
On top of it, execs will expect you to just fix stuff without giving you more people.
I actually did all that for 2 years and got fed up.
If you wanna learn it all, then good. But even then the challenge is while other cross functional team wont help you, they will be the first one to raise red flag to stop you from doing what you be doing to bridge the gap
I recently left after 9 yrs in IBM. I wouldnt recommend it. In IBM, PM are expected to do both outbound and inbound work while working as program managers and everything else. Only engineering and PM take responsibility for everything while everyone else does their own thing, fight and dont suppprt you. You ll end up doing - product vision - product execution - product ideation - product marketing - product GTM - product pricing - product contract management - field and sales enablement - customer meetings On top of it, execs will expect you to just fix stuff without giving you more people. I actually did all that for 2 years and got fed up. If you wanna learn it all, then good. But even then the challenge is while other cross functional team wont help you, they will be the first one to raise red flag to stop you from doing what you be doing to bridge the gap