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?
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?
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
posted by Itaxpica at 8:26 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
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
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
posted by jet_silver at 8:25 AM on November 22, 2014
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posted by bleep at 7:53 PM on November 21, 2014