[mapasj]

I think taking that opportunity with your current company to do product work is a great way to make this career shift. In a software engineering role in the past, I had a chance to work do product work because it was a new product and so there weren’t any existing PMs already working on it.

If you say that you’re not sure how to get involved, I would just suggest that you work to set boundaries as clear as you can with management about what your responsibilities and ownership will be. That could be a tricky thing if your colleagues think of you still as an engineer. The line between developer and PM can already be a fuzzy one, and it could be even harder to make sense of if you’re just starting to do PM work.

Other advice would be to pay attention to how you communicate your ideas, sell your ideas, and your writing skills. Things that PMs need to do a lot, but software engineers often undervalue. Work to develop those skills.