Once I was working as a business analyst for a startup. My job was performing market research to identify product positioning opportunities and working with the client on business requirements and tech team for project deliveries (as service was the main revenue at that moment for the startup), I was also involved in the marketing side partially. Our office was at a co-working space. One evening, I was out for a coffee with a cofounder of a different startup operating at same co-working place. While having sip of coffee, I shared a dilemma with him that I have been working on different aspects in the organization which in term can make me jack of all but master of none. I liked being associated to technology considering my engineering background. I had fun talking to client understanding their problem. And market research was a great act of learning. But still I used to dwell on questions such as-am I just wasting my time by not focussing on discipline? Where this kinda role is headed to?

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Back in college I was working with a student branch of IEEE, where I was anointed as Chairperson in my mid senior year. We did pretty cool stuff while working for the student branch. We started with bunch students (around 20), and by the end of my tenure of one year, we had reached around 200 members, established a dedicated society lab for members and received national level recognition for our team’s initiatives and growth. I was involved in different roles there as well. From ideating, planning, and organising of events and activities, marketing them classrooms to classrooms.

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Rewinding back to my Coffee talk with this cofounder. I asked him- ”At what designation or role You would hire me if you needed a person with similar experience?” His response was- ”Such kinda a work falls under the designation of a Product Manager”. This was the first time I was introduced to this term.

I started looking upon this role on internet about its job description and how much does it align with my interests. Later that year, I signed up for an online course on foundations of Product management on Udemy. After completion of the course, I felt like I have been initiated into some holy lineage (no exaggeration on emotions I had).

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My passion for technology, creating good experience for customers and desire to learn more about businesses brought me to this path.