I have a brilliant friend: former lawyer, diplomat and 4-5 years in tech strategy/policy work. I tell him often he'd make an excellent PM
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My timeline is full of product thought threads, this is a product question thread
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He (correctly) points out that noone hires someone who is new to being a PM at a level even close to commensurate with their career experience, so even though he'd love that he missed that path too long ago.
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That feels true, but also completely stupid. There isn't a PM school, we all learn by doing. Yet we make it insanely hard for people to get a chance to do the doing?
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My friend is smarter than me. He's every bit as creative and empathetic, also let's be real for a minute, the mechanics of being a PM can absolutely be taught to someone who has the toolkit....
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(im not saying someone could be a Director or VP off the street, but a mid level IC? Why not?)
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Consulting firms do this super well. They'll accept prior professional experience and an MBA and bring folks in at the Senior IC / cusp of management level all the time.
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So here's the questions in the thread: 1) why are we so obsessed with prior PM experience when hiring PMs? 2) what paths do we have for folks 10 years into their careers to get into product? 3) are any co's doing something like consulting does?
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Post script: this thread is because I'm genuinely curious about this but if you found yourself thinking "I'd totally hire someone like that!" DM me and I'll happily connect you to said brilliant friend.
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I think it’s because bad PMs can be very destructive, expensive mistakes *and* it’s hard to figure out pm quality in the interview process. So a track record of launching good products and having positive relationships with eng/design/xfn teams is the only way to somewhat tell.
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I think the cost of being wrong here is very correct! We over index on the only signal we can get. But PM can be a different job co to co so that signal is so often wrong and it means we're eternally recruiting PMs out of each other's companies at great cost
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