Transitioning: AI Engineer --> Product Management
Hello mentors, need help !
I am an AI Engineer at a fintech company (mumbai), at start my job was like any other AI Engineer out there - working around AI systems, building AI systems, deciding best approache for feature developments, improving token consummption, even build an Agent from scratch to MVP (alone).
After sometime I got a new task - to migrate all the third party tools / softwares used by stakeholders(sales team, operations team, ops managers, sales managers) and create in-house replacements for them, Initial migration lead by my manager (Sr. director of Engineering) then I took over this task, taking complete ownership, talking to sales team, ops team, admins - taking their feedbacks, understanding their day to day work, what features / functions they used regularly, what they need to make their life (and job) easy.
During this process I started to love this task - initially I got frustrated, being an AI Engineer I had to understand what an customer success / bussiness relationship guy do on daily basis, so I can make this product even more easy to use and efficient then before. after so many days of continously taking feebacks - implementing them, giving demos, again taking feedbacks, five rounds of testing, again feedbacks, again fixing - making changes according to the feedback, migratation completed. Sales team, ops team, admins - got their new product, all the third part tools (3 tools / softwares actually) shutdown.
After few days I realised this was product manager's job (not exactly but some of) - what I did as an AI Engineer, also I have a keen interest in starting my own business, I always wanted to learn about business, be in a leadership roles - moving up to the ladder in high profile roles (VP, director, CEO). from start of my career I decided to first work few years as an Engineer then I am gonna learn about business then transition into management roles - but never thought that the moment of transition would come this early (really exicted)
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I want to transition into product management, I have gathered few resources to start with (FREE mostly) here is the list:
Product Management Course - King Siddhart (Youtube playlist)
HelloPM: 50-awesome-product-management-resources
The Stare: case-studies of real products
The product folks: product teardowns
Is this enough to develop product sense ? OR do I have to purchase any course on product management ? is this enought to clear product management interviews ? to actuall get into product management roles ? - really confused here, also a friend of mine told me to participate in real product teardown events, don't just watch them, participate in them, but I have no idea how to get into an real product teardown event - I really want to participate
Mentors need your help guide me I don't even have right questions to ask right now
Thanks in advance 🙏 ❤️