📈Business & Finance🌍 International
Product Manager
Decides what the team builds and why
Decides which features and products to build to solve users' problems and deliver business value — usually at tech companies worldwide.
What they do
- ▹Interviews users and studies product usage data
- ▹Writes user stories for the development team
- ▹Prioritizes the product backlog
- ▹Analyzes metrics after a new feature launches
Skills you need
- ▹Analytical thinking
- ▹English for working with an international team
- ▹Communication
- ▹Basic understanding of how software development works
- ▹Making decisions with incomplete data
Focus on these subjects at school
MathematicsComputer scienceEnglish
Where they work
- ▹International IT companies (fully remote)
- ▹Early-stage startups
- ▹Product teams at banks and telecom operators building their own apps
- ▹Outsourcing companies building products for foreign clients
Pros
- + In demand at international IT companies
- + Can work fully remotely from Tajikistan for a company in any country
Challenges
- − High competition for roles at well-known companies
- − Constantly has to prove the value of decisions with data
This is an international profession: the NTC intake plan has no dedicated program for it — it's in demand worldwide, often remotely. Browse the program catalog for related fields if you'd like to start by studying in Tajikistan.