There's marketing consultant in my career coach!
November 21, 2014 7:38 PM   Subscribe

Finally able to describe what I do in a way; now I need to sell it. What person do I hire in order to create a message that makes sense to people who hire people with weird yet valuable talent?

I have a talent; it is weird and it works. It is in bringing engineering projects together. There isn't a name I know for this but what it involves is managing interfaces, not designs. It is as though I get the negative space in a project and deal with that, not the work breakdown structure. It is more design-oriented than a systems engineer, yet there are elements of both in it. This description doesn't work with people with the ability to hire talent, so I am limited now to working with organizations in which I have been an employee and which know my work.

Therefore I need some kind of marketing approach to articulate what I do. The person to define this approach is not exactly a career coach yet as far as I can see, it isn't a marketing consultant either. The person I want to hire can take this approach to engineering, create my elevator pitch and my description of services, and make it somehow compelling.

Can you name the unicorn?
posted by jet_silver to Work & Money (6 answers total)
 
Best answer: Are you sure you're not a product manager? Or a user experience designer/manager (in the sense that UX is not UI?)
posted by bleep at 7:53 PM on November 21, 2014


Best answer: I was gonna say, it sounds to me a lot like you're a project manager. This is good! Speaking as a software engineer, a good PM is worth their weight in gold. But you shouldn't need a consultant to package yourself for that - just do some googling, read some blogs, and see what people are saying about the field and how they present themselves.
posted by Itaxpica at 8:26 PM on November 21, 2014


Best answer: Maybe someone like this?
posted by Vaike at 8:30 PM on November 21, 2014


Best answer: Not sure exactly, but I bet its got "architect" in there somewhere.

Product manager is probably closer to what you want to be than project manager.
posted by Leon at 11:33 PM on November 21, 2014


Best answer: Solutions architect? See existing roles with that title
posted by StephenF at 1:09 AM on November 22, 2014


Response by poster: All the answers are best because all are territory I have been missing. Thank you!
posted by jet_silver at 8:25 AM on November 22, 2014


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