Career Pivots
Has anyone moved from Product Management to BD or/and back from BD to Product Management? What has been their experience? What are the things to watch for a move from Product > BD? Was it difficult to move back from BD to Product?
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So I am thinking of pivoting because the BD role that I am looking at is at a FAMGAS company and the domain is something that I am passionate about and have been working on as a Product.
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cipher Mar 16, 2019FAMGAS?
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As long as you are able to talk about how BD helped you become more attuned to the voice of the customer, product people will embrace you with open arms. Personally, I realized how most product managers think they know what customers want (like a male gynecologist thinks he understands his female patients) and had make some changes to address that blind spot. I’ve always done BD/product at super technical companies so the transition was pretty easy. Can’t say the same for consumer/less technical stuff. YMMV. PS: BD pays way less than product and fewer jobs in general/more competition