Should UX Designers Become PMs?

Is pivoting to PM the answer to Your UX career safety and job placement?

The demand for PMs seems to have increased, while UX Design roles have become tough ones. Senior UX Designers keep struggling to secure a job, and while we have great expectations for the future this isn't just another typical cycle of tech ups and downs, the global panorama is shifting, and these changes are accelerating at an unprecedented pace.

Screenshot on 02/10/2024 — I used Linkedin as a reference, but if you have friends working in tech companies they probably have noticed this as well.

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Screenshot on Linkedin: and yes, we know some of this roles will be frozzen and some have been there for ages

The word Economic Forum stands that 23% of jobs are expected to change by 2027, with 69 million new jobs created and 83 million eliminated. — Read it again, 83 million people will lose their job title, AKA their professional label in less than 4 years.

The report also estimates that, on average, 44% of an individual worker’s skills will need to be updated, again almost half of the skills you have today will change into new ones if you intend to secure a job.

I don't know about you, but I am taking a step back and looking at the big picture (Macroeconomics), and by…