r/ProductMgmt

Hello guys,

I need some advices or guidance as I am planning to enrol in product management course online to shift into that market. However, I am quite confuse between some options.

1. I started to work early in life to support my family. I did diploma after 12 so I couldn't do the graduation. Now I wanna complete graduation. Which course will be better for future PM role? BBA or BCA? Please guide.

2. I want to enrol PM courses as well that will give me proper certification and real-world experience. I thought about NextLeap or Airtribe. Which one is good or if there are others which are better than this, please enlight.

However, atm, I can only choose any one of the above. Graduation or a PM course. Here I specially need some advice on what to pursue first. I will also be doing a job to support my studies financially. It would be very helpful to get any guidance from field experts.

Edit: I will do graduation regardless. But at this very moment, I can only proceed with just one. I want to invest my financials properly and in future I will proceed with the other one.

Graduation in my country is 3 Years and the PM course will be maximum 1 year.

Thank you!

Ended up with 8+ offers over the last few weeks. It was a pretty intense ride and I learned way more than I expected about interviews, what companies care about, and what actually works.

I’ve got a few free days before my new job starts, so figured I’d give back a bit.

If you’re exploring AI PM, interviewing, thinking about a switch, or just want another pair of eyes on your approach, happy to chat.

We can do a quick 15 minute call and see if I can help.

My DMs are open.

I’m trying to understand how the industry describes teams like mine.

Our long-term mission is to enable external developers and AI agents to successfully discover, integrate with and consume our company’s external APIs on our dev portal.

Today, our primary customers are internal engineering teams. We help them build high-quality external APIs by providing reusable products and capabilities such as:
* Reference implementations
* Code generation
* Shared platform capabilities (authentication, observability, etc.)
* AI guidance for API design decisions

We don’t own the business APIs themselves. Instead, we improve the experience of building them so that external developers and AI agents have a consistent, reliable API experience.

The vision is create an external API platform where every external API is consistent, discoverable and easy for both humans and AI agents to consume.

What would you call this type of team in your organization?
Is this Platform Engineering, Developer Experience (DevEx), Internal Developer Platform (IDP), API Platform, Engineering Enablement, or something else?

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been a Technical Writer at a major Reliance-backed commerce platform for a few years, but my actual day-to-day has completely evolved into Product Management.

My manager essentially let me run wild as a de facto PM: I’ve owned a merchant mobile app from 0 to 1, built an AI commerce agent, shipped 6 independent side-products (one hit #11 on Product Hunt, another has 2k+ organic MAU), and I even co-run a part-time product agency on weekends managing a small team of interns and devs. I write the PRDs, define roadmaps, run SQL, and look at Mixpanel/GA4 daily.

Despite the metrics, my official corporate designation is still "Technical Writer."

1. How do I beat the "title anchor" when applying for official PM roles? Recruiters see "Writer" and skip the resume, even though the bullet points are pure product delivery.
2. Is an MBA absolutely mandatory in this market to pivot, or is my 0-to-1 shipping experience enough to clear the screening?

Any tips from people who transitioned from non-traditional roles without a Tier-1 MBA?