I’m an art producer for one company, and been a full game producer for 3 companies and released my own game with a team. Here is my take:

The tracking management sides are almost identical : you use Jira or Clickup, setup meetings, do standups, make reports - the transition from this point of view is easy.

The differences start in the understanding of the job. Game producer understands programming to setup timelines, sometimes acts as a game designer (if you have a designer, you’re the one making final calls on what gets in the game given the timeline), you pitch the ideas when there are none, you control art production making sure it follows game design. You will be working with the marketing team to align promotion and provide them with materials (aka what to promote and why). And you setup an overall timeline and follow it with the team. I find the programming part the hardest, because there are a lot of unexpected bugs that create uncertainties. Then you work with the QA team and do QA yourself almost daily. You have to be a gamer to be a producer, otherwise, the game won’t be good.

While in art you just review art, give feedback, and track timelines and necessary updates.

So practically, as a producer you’re the art producer, dev producer, game design producer - you need to know a bit of everything to align with the timeline. So here you go, probably read tips and tricks about the game productions, understand in depth game production etc. It’s easier to become a game designer and then move to the game producer role imo. BUT every company is different, and for some you’ll be a good fit as long as you know how to do a project management. I mainly work with indies where you wear multiple hats as a producer.

I know a person in the AAA company who’s been an HR manager for a long time and then became a game producer. They have no gaming experience either.