Is Product Management still worth it in 2024?

2 points by teomoura 2 years ago | 1 comment

Hey! As a software engineer who has seen all the major shifts in the tech market through the past couple years or so I find myself wondering how things have changed for product managers as well. Is finding jobs more difficult nowadays than a year or two ago? Would you recommend new folks getting into the field to go ahead or stay away from it considering a mid to long term scenario?

BensonGao 2 years ago |

From my personal experience, it is indeed more difficult for product managers to find jobs than before. However, due to the development of AI technology, more and more product managers have started to shift towards AI. Many AI products have already been released globally, and from the details, the experience requirements for AI products are higher than those for traditional software. My suggestion is that if you are currently working as a product manager, you should quickly learn about AI, not just the product experience, but more importantly, understand the principles of GenAI and how to integrate and complete products using these principles. In the field of AI, independent developers can complete a project more quickly, but if you want to turn it into a continuously built product for users, it is still recommended to find a product manager as a partner. So product managers will not be few, whenever there is a group of developers, there will be a few product managers among them, and the entire internet circle will be in a delicate dynamic balance