I have two offers - one is a senior role in customer success (not people management) at Salesforce with a 20% increase in pay. This is good but other than being with a new team and learning about a new product, it’s not going to be very different from my current role. Another is a product management opportunity at a newly acquired company in VMware, where I used to be before with customer success in another BU, but it’s a step down from my current level (it’s going to be almost entry level) with a 25% pay cut and working remote. I personally want to take up the latter as I want to be in Product long term and it’s really hard breaking into Product Management without any PM experience. But the reason I hesitate is because I don’t have prior Product Management experience and I’m not sure about the speed at which I can learn and create impact with my scrum teams (and leadership) spread out across different offices (and home offices). Any advices? I’d love to hear from folks who started off as remote PMs and were able to succceed. Would also like to know how easy or hard it is to transiton internally at Salesforce to Product from CSM. TC: $160K yoe: 6
Go with Salesforce. Great culture and benefits.
If you want to be a PM take a PM role and sometime it is not about money but what you want to achieve. It is not easy to transition into PM without PM experience
Thanks @markc. Do you have any comments on working remote when starting off a PM career? The main reason behind is almost all of the scrum team is remote and they don’t see a reason for me to relocate.
Think about the long term. PM and customer success roles have some overlap in long term trajectory. Unless you’re specifically trying to break into the tech industry, Salesforce seems like the better option.
Take the option with higher TC
Is the PM role with pivotal labs? If yes, take it and learn for a year. Then find a better paying job. Labs is the best school for junior PMs. And you get paid.
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25% pay cut from $160k tc? idk about that
May not be that bad if they are working remote in a low COL area.
Yes. I’m living in a relatively COL city. I know the money is less but right now I’m more focused on career trajectory.