I am a Product Manager at BloomReach. I have no formal technical background. I have an undergraduate degree in Economics, an MBA, and work experience entirely in finance. Despite these shortcomings, I've switched from Goldman Sachs investment banking to my current product role in a tech startup. With that transition, I've changed all 3 in the job search trifecta - company, job function and geography.

I have advised dozens of friends, who in turn referred me to their friends and friends of friends, looking to switch from consulting / banking / corp dev / something else into startups. Now that I'm on the hiring side, I have interviewed many candidates for BloomReach, most of whom do not have technical backgrounds.

Ailian Gan

Product Manager at BloomReach

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