Hi all, need your help planning. Quit my current data job for a number of personal reasons and want to get into PM. Have something like a year of runway. How should I use it best? tl;dr a few years as business side DS, am worried about not knowing modern data products, have a reading list already ------- I'm a business side data scientist wanting to switch into PM work. Really like working with stakeholders across the company, would be happy to not have to touch production code again, and really want to grow something longer term. A PM type role seems like a perfect fit, with its emphasis on solution discovery and stakeholder management. My big concern is that I don't have a ready product niche: not really strong with any tech or ML. I'm a junior with good business analyst skills who braved into an ML tech lead role on a specific enterprise stack. Learned my ropes with a team of old school data miners, and jumped ahead to fill a business need for quicker turnaround modeling and deployment tools. Found out what not to do the hard way, but didn't get much exposure to using mainstream data products. On the up side, I do have some experience with generic PM tasks. I've worked with a ton of different business functions: telemarketers, sales people, go to market planners, campaign marketers, data infrastructure people, finance people, product marketers, developers, and even some PMs. I've also internally taught statistics and basic ML to analysts and salespeople, organized internal groups, and before this job did some technical writing for undergrad stats books. Existing plan is to go through a Blind inspired PM reading list (the interview books + the Lean books + Inspired), as well as Designing Data Intensive Applications so I can offer more educated opinions when working with devs and customers. What else should I be doing? TC 137 < 3 YOE
Inspired Value proposition design Competing against luck Google:jobs to be done Google: business model canvas The art of innovation (bonus) You should be able to read all these in 2 months. You're good to go after this.
Self studying will never replace the need for real experiences on your resume to pass the screening phase, which is almost an absolute prerequisite for any respectable PM job. PS might help you network but it could just be wasted money.
Just got hired at eBay as a senior product manager with no product management experience, but deep subjects matter expertise in some specific areas they needed. I’m happy to chat if you’d like to dm me.
Go to a Product School?
Do you mean MBA?
No there are designated product management schools online