 I was so disappointed and stressed out and underpaid in my last job at the systems engineer until one day I discovered product management career and literally it is the best career ever I can ever had in my life. It made me so happy, so relaxed, and even if I work overtime sometimes, but this is my true passion. I also get paid three times more than my old salary. I was so happy I discovered this profession once I became a PM and I also got a great mentorship, great manager, great resources and fast promotion and become a director product. And in this video, I love to invite everybody to walk into the realm of product management and share with you the top eight reasons why product management is the best career for everybody and how to become one. Make sure to stay until the end of the video where I share with you the number one reason that is going to increase your career satisfaction significantly. Hey guys, this is Dr. Nia Sidi, a director product and featured in Forbes. I have helped hundreds of people land a dream PM job offer in fan companies and unicorn startup and continue to get promoted as a product leader. If you're interested in product management course, go to pmaccelerator.io. In this channel, I cover free product management training and tech trends. Like and subscribe so you'll be notified every time I post a new video every Tuesday. If you've been in this video, let's remain happy. I'm probably going to lock through the entire video. Listen, this is like happy, happiest video ever made. First of all, let's talk about how I discover product management career. My very first job, I was a systems engineer working for Shell Oil and frequently I was the only woman in the room. People do not respect me. I literally do not like digging oil out of the ground. You can see those pictures me working on oil rigs and literally I don't like it. And I also discovered that companies intentionally slow down my green card and underpay me so they can hold me forever in the same company. I literally hate you so much. And until one day my boyfriend at the time and our husband told me that hey, have you heard of something called product management? And I was like boom, like ding dong, the like boom moment just came up. That's just open up the new opportunities for me to consider what is product management? Product management career is literally possible for everybody. If you're tired of your new job, you're underpaid, you hate your old bosses, you hate the industry you're in, probably you can consider product management. If you are fresh graduate and you have no clue what is the future can entail for you, you definitely need to start product management career because you're going to get paid as higher software engineer, but it's going to put you on a leadership track. If you're entrepreneur, you're very tired of running around and getting funding, but you're able to do the same kind of thing to building an amazing product in a big corporation. And then you want to take a break from entrepreneurship, product management career is definitely the best for you. So so many different reasons people want to become product manager, but now let me share with you the reason number two. Product management is in high demand and high salary category. In my last video right here, I talk about so many companies hiring thousands of product managers right now and some of them are getting paid at $900,000 per year. And this is like no brainer, it's a high demand. They cannot find enough product managers are qualified for the job. And also let's take a look at the salary product managers. Product managers, as I said, in Netflix, they're paying people $900,000 per year for AI product manager and Meta L7 level, which is most senior product manager, and they're getting paid at $800,000 per year. And now let's talk about entry-level product manager. Fresh graduate out of college with zero work experience, they're getting paid at $150,000 per year working for Microsoft and working for Google, working for Meta in those APM program. But do you know that someone who is a marketing director is only going to pay $130,000 per year? But entry-level product manager joined the fan company getting paid $150,000 per year. In this case, at least 20 years younger than those marketing directors. No brainer is definitely the highest paid job and with the brightest future. I had a more in-depth video where I talk about the six-figure tax salary breakdown. You can take a look right here. I'm also going to link it in the description of this video. The second reason product management is the best career ever is the leadership opportunities. Product managers are the CEO of product. You decide everything into and about product from working with engineers, developing the prototype, then working with sales marketing team to launch a product, and working with legal team to make sure they're actually getting protected from legal perspective. Most people will wait until the age of 30 or even 40 to become a leader start managing people. As a product manager, the first job you start your career, you can start to manage product and working a cross-functional team. Of course, it will take you a couple of years to become the director of product start managing people, but your first ever job is already a leadership position. This is a fast track to accelerate anyone's career. If you want to learn the end to end, what does the PM do? Feel free to check out this video and also click the link in the description where you can download the checklist of day-to-day roles and responsibilities of a product manager. Number three is the variety and challenges. Every single day is different. Every single team is different. Every single task is very different. As a product manager, we need to work with all different kind of stakeholders, sales, marketing, legal, customer success, everybody. And you're also facing a variety of different tasks. Not just, hey, let's do coding, let's code, let's do data analytics. Every single day is boring. But product managers, when you start the product, you start to work on more products, doing customer interviews. And then you're moving closer towards the end of product management life cycle. You design the go-to-market strategy. You work with the sales marketing team to design the value proposition product. So it's a variety of skills, variety of tasks, variety of people you work with. This is truly exceptional, very happy. And you're facing challenges all the time because the more people you need to work with, the more different skill set you develop, the more challenges you're facing. But those good challenges to have to push you to grow faster and better. Number four, big customer impact. Let me tell you the differences. If you're someone who just crunching data behind the Excel sheet and you go home, your parents ask you, what did you do? Or you launch a product that is something that was available on Apple App Store. What is a feature that has been used by millions or even billions of Google users? What does this feel like when people ask you, hey, what kind of product did you launch? What do you do? You're creating amazing impact to millions of people if you do B2C product. You can also create big impact to B2B product by creating enterprise product. And these kind of impact truly fill your human desire, feel like you're very satisfied about your job as a product manager. I told you to be smiling throughout the entire video because I love it. In my next video, I'm going to show you different kind of life case studies of different tech companies launching amazing product and impact millions of people's life, what methodology they'll be using. So therefore make sure to subscribe to the channel and turn on the bell button to be notified when I upload a new video coming soon. Fix the reason this best career for you. It is a fast paced environment. When I was a PhD student at Boston University, I asked my PhD advisor, how long it takes for my research from the lab to put into the hands of customers and become a reality. The answer is 15 years. Oh my goodness. When I heard the answer, I was like 15 years. When my son was born and 15 years later, he is in high school. Oh, finally, mom's product and research can hit people's lives and can start to impact people's lives. 15 years is really long. But if you are a product manager, your product development cycle can only be assured as three months to develop MVP and test out. And you have a flush out product within six months at the fastest and sometimes maybe takes a year. But it's much significantly faster, 15 times faster than any other industry, any other space, any kind of research out there. This truly makes everything so dynamic and happy. May people love your job and see the impact of your effort right away. Number six, everyone can become a product manager. This is also the main reason everyone should try to become a PM. Because in the past, product management has no traditional training. You take a degree, you can become a product manager. It's different because product manager has a very diverse skillset. There's no one set path to become a PM. So therefore, I have taught hundreds of students in the past and they came from very different backgrounds. From art student become product manager, educational background become a product manager, CPA accountant become a product manager, consultant become a product manager, soft engineer become a product manager, marketer become a product manager, investment banker become a product manager. Any possible domain you can think about, they all have become a product manager. So that's why everybody should just give a try because this career is available for everybody who like to put in the effort. Check out, I have more in-depth analysis regarding how can you become a product manager with nine steps, with no experience. Check out more videos right here. I'm also going to link it in the description of this video. Reason number seven, product management has the best income to work-life balance ratio. But there are some professions out there can probably achieve similar type of work satisfaction, such as customer success, people engaged with customers, but they're getting paid very low. Marketers can design the gold market strategy, but they're also getting paid very low. McKenzie consultant get paid well enough, however they're working 60 to 80 hours per week and literally the hair just falling off, then literally have health issues if they stay in their lifestyle forever. Software engineer getting paid about 10% higher than product managers. However, I think most people just do not like to become a software engineer. Software engineers sometimes also work in long hours sitting in front of a computer. If you're able to become a great product manager, join a fan company, you're getting paid even higher than any other software engineers out there. Product manager are getting paid the highest based on the income to work-life balance ratio. By the way, product managers are still getting paid higher than McKenzie consultant, even if we work half of the time on what they do. Reason number eight, which is my most important reason, I personally believe that everybody should consider becoming a product manager, which is the new era of working from home opportunities. So many people try to work from home after pandemic and so many people try to have the balance of hybrid opportunities or even fully working from home. Product management is a special unique position that enables you to work from home, work from anywhere, so that you're able to enjoy the work-life balance. Like me, I live in Miami for the winter and Boston in the summer. This truly made me feel like I can really get closer to my family and also have a perfect work-life balance. And even if I think new mom is difficult, but this type of job actually enables me to love my life much more and enjoy my family much more. So by now, you should be convinced that everybody should just become a product manager immediately. Therefore, you should go to this website and download the product management resume template, which have been used by 90,000 product managers to help them to jumpstart their product management career. I'm going to also link it in the description of this video and make sure to check out this video right here. And we are talking about the nine steps to become a product manager with no experience at all. This is Dr. Nancy Lee from PMX Surgeon Diome. We'll see you in my next video right here.