I have a question on behalf of my wife. She has CAPM certification and 2+ years of experience in health care project management. Worked at Kaiser and Optum. UC Berkeley grad, masters from UCLA in MPH. So overall she got a great resume for any health care project management role. She did quit about 6 months ago to take care of our baby and soon she wants to return to workforce. However, since compensation is really bad in healthcare industry, it is not really exciting to go back to healthcare for $70-80k TC, considering we live in LA and most of her take-home income would go to childcare. So we are curious if her PM skills can be transferred into tech industry. If so, what's the overall expectation to be a PM in tech? Apart from PM skills, what tech skills PMs are expected to have? We both have no idea about it and appreciate if there is anyone who can comment on this. Thanks. My TC: $156k ( contracting, not at Meta )
I actually did something similar. I worked in clinical research at a few hospitals and moved first into program management at meta and just accepted a role in product at a new company. It’s definitely possible and it’s helpful to marketing the skills she has been building and mapping them to the role she wants. Definitely agree with the entry level point but with tech movement is SO much easier in my experience than healthcare was so it all worked out rather quickly to get where I wanted to be. Congrats on the newborn and good luck to her :)
She could start as program manager in Healthcare based tech companies and use that to transition later.
Yes, her skills can be transferred from healthcare to tech, but you need to know the right steps. Did it successfully, DM me
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Many tech companies would be happy to interview her for early-career TPM (Technical Program Manager), PMM (Product Marketing Manager), or APM (Associate Product Manager) roles. She will have an edge even, being a DEI candidate. If she has a good STEM resume, as long as she does not take the "OMG! I have TWO PLUS years of experience and they dared to ask me to take a junior role!!! WTF??!!" attitude, it will be an easy and lucrative career switch. Best wishes! PS: Congrats on the newborn!
Thanks for the insight. We will look up those titles you mentioned.