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What is it like working as a Product Manager? What is a Product Manager's role, position in a company, salary and daily life? In the following section, Wild Code School offers you a general overview of what it means to work as a Product Manager in the digital sector.
For the past 5 years, this job has become increasingly essential in European tech companies (it has existed for longer in the US) and the need for them is only growing.
Indeed, Product Managers combine diverse and almost incompatible skills - which turn them into THE profiles in high demand on the employment market. Whether it is in startups or in big companies, this hybrid profile is being hard to find.
Product managers are often considered as CEOs of a product. Like conductors, they are responsible for almost all the steps involved in creating a product (usually a tech product):
Hence, they have to master the 3 main parts of their jobs: the business part, the tech part, and the marketing part.
However, we can surely underline that it is important not to be mistaken between a Product Manager and a Project Manager. This last one’s missions rely on the organization in order to achieve a goal by managing a team. On the contrary, the Product Manager is in direct contact with the CEO, and works closely with UX designers, engineers, data scientists, business analysts as well as with users and sales teams.
We could say that 3 years of experience are needed to become a fully operational Product Manager.
In European countries, the salary goes from 37 K to 69 K on average. It depends on the experiences, but also on the country where the Product Manager is working.