i’m exiting IB and see parallels in stakeholder management, but APM apps keep getting rejected. former consultants/bankers who broke into uber/stripe PM roles: what tangible steps moved you from ‘transferable skills’ to concrete offers? specifically, how did you reframe deal timelines or client interactions as product experience?
stop trying to ‘reframe’ and start shipping actual features. nobody cares about your powerpoint ninja skills. build a chrome extension solving a real problem, then show metrics. your deck about theoretical user pain points is worth less than a junior dev’s weekend side project.
Key insight: Translate client engagements into product terms. Instead of ‘managed $50M portfolio’, position as ‘developed prioritization framework balancing 12 competing stakeholder KPIs under regulatory constraints’ - mirroring product tradeoffs. Then supplement with a live product teardown analysis of a tool you’d build for your former clients.