[kingkongjaffa]

Just be super clear what you want to do because there are three wildly different roles that most companies bastardise quite a bit.

Product owner

Project manager

Product manager

Are all wildly different job roles.

Do you want to track and ensure deliver across multiple projects = project management

Do you want to be close support to dev teams and organize backlogs etc. = product owner

Do you want a business role talking to customers and deciding _what to build_ and why (product strategy) and much less focusing on the how to build it part.

[mettamage]

Any ideas how I can be a product manager?

I’m a data analyst right now and before that a SWE.

I guess I’m my own product manager right now. I get to decide quite often what a good strategy is, as long as I back it with data, and then build it myself.

[kingkongjaffa]

1. Start asking 'why' more.

2. Do everything you can to map out how the company makes money.

3. Speak to sales and customer success folks often.

4. Do everything you can to speak to customers directly, and listen to their pains points and opportunities.

5. Develop hypothesis about what to build next, test the hypothesis by debating internally, speaking to customers, showing them demos etc.

[mettamage]

Oohh! Those are good tips!