[testingwaters4]

Can you not slowly rotate over time in your current company? Or just interview at other companies and ask, saying you want to start in product management and see if they have any tracks or internal processes to help people move departments. I know that they do it in a lot of companies, even the one I am in which is around 75 people. There are tracks to move between departments if you're interested.

[clement_b]

Thanks for replying! Yes, that's a way. I nearly managed to pull it off a few years ago, but ended up being more relevant on the non-dev stuff, and that led me to the wrong track (as in, not the one I wanted, but the one paying me more). I got better and better as a PM and now it's hard to convince anyone that they should let me go to a less strategic role. In the sense that developers are often executing the roadmap, not defining it (at least where I am), and paying me for (slow) execution only is kind of a waste of my domain knowledged and experience. But you're right, trying internally may be the best/safest way.