I've been a Product Marketing Manager for 3 years out of college (w/ an undergrad business degree) at an enterprise networking company in Silicon Valley, but I find the company, its products, and my role a bore. But I love consumer tech– wearables, mobile hardware, mobile apps, social, latest web technologies– you name it.
I've taken a couple courses (One Month Rails, Learn Python the Hard Way, and Coursera) to get a basic understanding of coding. I've learned I'm not a very fast learner in terms of coding and while passionate about it, and don't think I would do well as a software engineer (took me 6 months to get through half of the Learning Python the Hard way to give you an idea).
I've decided I want to get into product, but not sure how or what way. I love tech, and I want to contribute to building a product but have no technical (official) experience.
I have 2 questions:
1. What role/title should I be looking at to transition from PMM to product? Product Manager (but those require experience)? Operations? What's my best option here?
2. Is this too difficult a transition? Should I go to an MBA or back to an undergrad program?
I don't mean to come off as lazy– if it does sound that way, I apologise. I really want to pour my passion into products I love, but I just can't get that with routers and data centre software. I also feel that "marketing" in tech is somewhat redundant, since the product's features by definition are its marketing.
I've taken a couple courses (One Month Rails, Learn Python the Hard Way, and Coursera) to get a basic understanding of coding. I've learned I'm not a very fast learner in terms of coding and while passionate about it, and don't think I would do well as a software engineer (took me 6 months to get through half of the Learning Python the Hard way to give you an idea).
I've decided I want to get into product, but not sure how or what way. I love tech, and I want to contribute to building a product but have no technical (official) experience.
I have 2 questions:
1. What role/title should I be looking at to transition from PMM to product? Product Manager (but those require experience)? Operations? What's my best option here?
2. Is this too difficult a transition? Should I go to an MBA or back to an undergrad program?
I don't mean to come off as lazy– if it does sound that way, I apologise. I really want to pour my passion into products I love, but I just can't get that with routers and data centre software. I also feel that "marketing" in tech is somewhat redundant, since the product's features by definition are its marketing.