Is it easy to go from sales engineering to product management? Haven’t seen much movement with my Product Mgmt job apps since most are looking for 5 YOE (I have 3). Is this a common pipeline? Got an offer to be a sales engineer at a well established fintech startup with a TC that’s more than $45K jump from what I make now as a tech consultant/digital product manager at Deloitte. Wondering if I should keep holding out for FAANG product manager roles or take this and keep networking… #productmanagement #sales #techsales #salesengineer TC: 125 YOE: 3
In my experience there are two ways to become a PM. Make the move internally (SE can be a good role to come from IMO) or get an MBA and do Pm intern stuff and start fresh. I’d take the startup offer and let them know you wanna be a PM, startups are great spots to make that move I’ve seen it happen where a person interviews into a PM role from a non PM role at another company but it’s rare and also can be a hard transition