Getting Started in Product Marketing

I always admired folks who knew what they wanted to do in life?

How do we know we are on the right path or if we are making the right decision in our career?

Growing up, in high school, I thought I wanted to be an architect, I loved design and admired buildings and the patterns. But I couldn’t pass the entrance exams for B. Arch so I took my next logical choice — B.Tech in IT living in family of engineers. Now, I admire architecture and design in my photography.

And after navigating the world of education from Bachelors to Masters in Cyber Security, I got a chance to come to the US at the University of Minnesota as a Research Scholar. I thought my next progression would be a PhD, but that didn’t pan out and came to California a year later to get my MBA to flex my creative thinking.

Always, a student for life, I went from introvert to ambivert to leader in group discussions and I tapped into a part of me that I didn’t know existed — my voice.

I was always a good student and never learned to share my opinions. Always worried I would say the wrong thing or ask the wrong question.

Now, when I look back after my first job in Marketing, I heard about product marketing and felt this would be the perfect to blend my technology and creative mindset.