Program Managers are really just cold calling sales machines
job went from 30% sales to 80% --> BDR truly... title does not match job description. This is due to high expectations by new parent company.
Veterans at the company are leaving because they make 50% less than new hires
They added a "Bench" program manager position because they are turning people over left and right.... they are overstaffing themselves so that they are prepared when people leave or are fired.
This job is not about being good at project management, it is strictly sales achievement.
Your success in this role comes down to a couple things that are out of your control - your manager - your appointed territory (Boston, Vancouver, Seattle, Charlotte) and vertical (CIO, CISO, CHRO, CMO, CDO) ... if you are placed on a good program, you might get to go to winners circle without selling a dime, because the program is already set up for success... If you get put on a program that is struggling, you could hit your highest personal sales record, and still not hit the goal that Gartner research says you can hit, and therefore, you're out of there.
Company communication is not good. Managers talk about employees in an open, and disrespectful way. I personally had my manager make a comment to me about another member of the team, and how she "would not have hired him, and he is a mattress salesman, he doesn't belong here".
There is no transparency, and with the acquisition, things are even more behind smoke and mirrors.
New office revamp --> open spaces and all that fun stuff, but do you really want to work in a cookie cutter call center?? I don't care that much about cool furniture.
AGAIN, turnover is high win all departments.... beware..... CONTENT dept.... veterans of the dept make 40k maybe... new hires under Gartner are making 2x that.... they cannot keep this department staffed because of salary discrepancies and poor explanation of actual job role.
