Nice article! Is Product Ops a career path into Product Management similar to how Sales Ops often transitions to Account Management / BDR or is the career path less clear?
That is an interesting question! I believe it will be answered in the next few years. As of now, I do not think of the Ops role as a junior role. It helps a lot to understand how product management works, so I would also see people transferring from a product manager role to a product ops role.
My last company attempted to implement product ops. It flopped in large part because the organization lacked buy into the model product ops was attempting to implement. They did, however, get us into some new tools like JIRA which was a win.
Nice article! Is Product Ops a career path into Product Management similar to how Sales Ops often transitions to Account Management / BDR or is the career path less clear?
That is an interesting question! I believe it will be answered in the next few years. As of now, I do not think of the Ops role as a junior role. It helps a lot to understand how product management works, so I would also see people transferring from a product manager role to a product ops role.
My last company attempted to implement product ops. It flopped in large part because the organization lacked buy into the model product ops was attempting to implement. They did, however, get us into some new tools like JIRA which was a win.
Congratuliations to your new Jira user account! ;-) But yes, buy-in and organizational support is really important.
(Jira is not as bad as people claim, in my opinion)