Tech IndustryFeb 27, 2020
VMwaretyu45hg

Transitioning to Product with Pay Cut

1. Does it make sense to move from a support management to a Product Owner role with a 30% pay cut if you want to learn and become a Product Manager long term? 2. Are Product Owners effective while working remote with team not next to you? TC:$147k yoe: 5

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Samsung chaji_iku Feb 27, 2020

A product owner doesn’t own anything except Jira tickets. They take orders from product managers or head of product folks. There’s not much decision making as it’s intended to be a junior pm role until you can effectively make decisions on features or new products as a true PM. Sounds you like you taking a more junior role from your current one. It depends whether you think a PM careers is really worth it. Personally I have seen colleagues who do well in customer success/support roles in tech. The PM route I feel is highly saturated right now with a very high degree of competition.

VMware tyu45hg OP Feb 27, 2020

Thanks so much!

GoDaddy Aofhe846 Feb 27, 2020

I’m going to go with “maybe” for both. It is easier to transition to PM with your existing company since you already grok the business environment. But if your current company doesn’t pay good PMs better, that tells me you don’t work in a product driven org. So get some experience as a PM and transition to a more PM driven company ASAP. For the 2nd question, it also depends highly on the company/org with respect to remote culture. If employees suck at communicating, you will suck as their PM.