Has anyone transitioned from UX design to product management?
If so, why? How did you go about it? Take any training? I feel like I'm so in sync with my PMs that the only thing I really need to learn better is the business side and agile mgmt part.
Knowing agile has nothing to do with being a PM. Project managers learn processes at companies that use them (a lot don’t), not product managers. Facebook has no process like agile. I came from a unicorn and we had no process like agile there either.
Product management is a completely different ballgame. It's managing the product and being responsible for it from a strategy as well as execution point of view. And when it's execution, knowing all the in's and out's of engineering, business metrics and all that. It's takes more than just a design first approach - it also involves working with legal and sales teams sometimes to ensure product development & success. I'd urge you to ask yourself the question - whether you are ready to connect and align all the above mentioned aspects of it, and be responsible for product success?
Why would anyone want to leave UX for product management?
Because he wants to get out there and immerse in how products are built from front end to back end, learn processes, legal, privacy, integrations, marketing.. the list goes on.. live in your cocoon dear Micro’Softy’
I studied design and did design professionally for seven years before getting my MBA and switching to Product Management. It’s been extremely rewarding both intellectually and monetarily :-)
MBA is a better path for this transition .. just absorbing PMs energy around you won’t help .. or get more quantitative skills by seeking out such projects .. It’s hard to make that switch without filling the skill gap
I don’t think an MBA is necessary at all. Maybe as a reset, but not otherwise necessary.
Not necessary true, but super helpful as a reset / transition point for me. Maybe just anecdotal, but I couldn’t even get a conversation for PM roles beforehand, then once I got the MBA+Design I became actively recruited by many top companies. I found it helps to combine my design fluency with business when tackling PM problems.
I saw a YouTube video for that.