I’m always fascinated how PMs got their start. This credential gap is a major part of AWIP’s mission: to provide our members the substantive, skills-based training that empowers them with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to advance in their careers. And while an engineering hiring manager can administer a live coding interview, a PM’s expertise is much harder to evaluate with precision during a 45-minute interview. Unlike the bar or CPA exams, there is no reliable PM certification that validates your skills to a hiring manager.
Most companies will need to staff their newly product-centric organization with product managers.įinally, the PM field is quite new, and individual managers’ expectations might vary greatly. Since the PM is an important and highly visible role at technology companies, the CEOs of technology companies will continue to recruit them, and the CEOs from other industries will continue adopting the management techniques of technology companies, including the evolution from a department-centric organization to a product-centric organization. And if you look at those industry-level trends, you’ll see that from a balance sheet perspective the technology sector has outperformed energy, banks, industrials, and all other sectors in their hiring of PMs. So where is this demand coming from? The answer is individual employers, acting independently, whose aggregate actions over time created this trend.
A recent study calls this the “ Golden Age of Product Management,” citing a 32 percent increase in PM jobs from 2017 to 2019, which is 5x the increase of all other jobs (at 6.6 percent). Nancy Wang (AWIP) – If you look at macroeconomic trends, there has been a huge spike in the demand for product management. And that leads me to my first question for you, Nancy, what was the impetus to create this course? In my opinion, there is such a need for what you and your organization are doing. Nancy Gessler (AWS) – I am excited to be associated with, and actually be a contributor, to this project. Nancy Wang (AWIP) – Nancy, it’s great to talk to you, and thanks for participating in Advancing Women in Product’s Real-World Product Management specialization! It’s wonderful to have you be one of the instructors in the course and bring your expertise in not only training solutions, but also product management (PM), new product introduction, and product-focused engineering in very fast-paced environments. Nancy and Nancy shared their thoughts on the in-demand product manager (PM) role and how the course came to be. The goal of AWIP is to help women and minorities get the skills, training, and support to advance into exciting roles and career opportunities. You will collaborate with peers who are customer centric, resourceful, and team oriented if you enjoy an inclusive communication style, are comfortable thinking big about ambiguous problem sets (while paying careful attention to detail), and appreciate a fast-paced, dynamic environment where you are empowered to take ownership and deliver results, this role may be an ideal fit for you.Nancy Wang, founder and CEO of Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) and Nancy Gessler, senior manager of Learning Products, AWS Training and Certification, spoke about their work together in the new course, Real-World Product Management specialization. You will be appreciated for your desire to quickly formulate plans supported by data that you can then execute across many work functions simultaneously. In this role, you will draw on your experiences managing complex businesses, solving technical challenges, and influencing key partner teams to drive initiatives to completion. As Senior Product Manager, you will own multiple products and lead development of exciting features in the product roadmap, drive key business metrics, and develop requirements for innovation that align with our business strategy as we continue to scale. Come play with us! Amazon Games is looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to join our live operations team in bringing games to market and developing and growing business opportunities for Amazon.
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