Currently a senior analyst with the opportunity to do Sales Engineering or Product Management at a bank (credit cards) at the associate level. Trying to understand which career path would have better growth/ability to pivot to other areas like strategy/higher income potential? #tech #productmanagement #solutionarchitect
SE is about having skillsets to tell a great story about products OTHERS have built, sprinkle in with enough personal (i.e. EQ) and sales skills, and work with the sales team to close deals. PM is about independent thinking and creative design to solve other people's problems in non-obvious ways, then having the ability to rally those around him/her to build the design and interate on it for max success. Obviously a very high level summary, but besides what you want (strategy/high income), what are you good at? Ultimately, SE track won't give you nearly as much impact in "strategy" (whatever that means to you, as I can only deduce per its literal meaning). Both will have high-income potential from early to mid-career. However, PM route will have a much higher ceiling if you are truly good at it as you'll be in a position to create net new product/revenue streams (assuming you make it to the top of the corporate ladder or do your own startup).
I agree on the different skill set required between the two functions. I have a strong sales skill set already, but find product strategy and development a bit more interesting, hence the dilemma. Do you have an opinion on the stability of SE in economic downturns? PM seems more preferable to me in periods of economic uncertainty.
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Only differs by few mths. As in Sales always gets fired few months before PM during every downturn in Bay Area
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