Which path to Product Management to choose?

Question

Project management

Purpose — IT Product Management
Education — Computer Science & Mechanical Engineering (CAD-systems), graduation of 2013
Work experience — 4 years: audiovisual equipment, photo, video, graphic design, travel journalism.
Judging by the statistics, most of the PdM left the developers. Clearly, first-person software development experience is essential to good PdM.
At the institute, I easily solved problems in Fortran, C ++, SQL courses, made some websites. The result brought pleasure, although I did not choose this as my profession.
Now I want to master some area of ​​product development for the subsequent growth in PdM.
The question is what area?
I suspect that the backend is not suitable because of its remoteness from the end user. In general, I find it interesting to develop for iOS, but I do not understand if this will be the best way to achieve my goal.

Answer 1

According to personal observation, people working as a product manager either have a successful experience of their projects, or worked as directors (managers) for development / promotion / sales.
Growing up from analysts or from a project manager, these are really units.
Growing up directly from the developers bypassing what was written above - I have never met.

Answer 2

and why the backend is not suitable? the word product manager is a new word, what do you mean by it? that is, decide on a list of tasks that you want to solve, and according to this list, it will immediately be clear to you how to start.

Answer 3

Junior Developer/QA/Analytic
Middle Developer/QA/Analytic
Senior Developer/QA/Analytic
Project Manager
Product Manager
No more spherical tasks from the university are needed here. And experience in the market, walking around with problems with the customer, and so on. And yes. Product is Facebook or Telegram. A huge project with infrastructure and 100 staff members.

Answer 4

Don't start from the wrong end. Every job requires knowledge and experience. Programming will not give you either of those in PdM. Knowledge in your case can be obtained in scrumtrack-type courses. Well, experience - only after getting a job with the acquired knowledge in a product company or startup.