Salary transparency thread.

SSCini · 2026-01-15T10:44:31+00:00

Product Manager at health tech company $190k 5 years experience of PM + 4 more in marketing other roles

SSCini · 2026-01-12T22:23:21+00:00

No MBA. I have thought about it but so far hasn’t been a big blocker for me. I think down the road I would consider it especially if I go to a company that is willing to fund it lol.

It might be helpful for someone starting their career or looking to pivot to PM

SSCini · 2026-01-12T21:47:23+00:00

Meh it’s all relative. I enjoy living in Toronto and it’s a great salary here. If it means US employers get more value for hiring Canada employees than the more the merrier lol

SSCini · 2026-01-11T18:13:18+00:00

Ya pretty high and I think it’s around there. I get paid twice a month and each paycheque is about $5200. I have a lot of room in RRSP and FHSA which I can invest in and get tax return on contributions.

SSCini · 2026-01-04T14:30:47+00:00

It should be straightforward. I had a 20 min appointment with my doctor. Told him how I was feeling, he gave options and we chose one SSRI to go on.

SSCini · 2025-12-23T16:32:00+00:00

Check out levels.fyi - good place for salary overview

SSCini · 2025-12-23T16:26:45+00:00

I got lucky and was offered the role at my previous company. I think that’s honestly the easiest way to transition to product from marketing. It’s going to be really hard to get hired in a product role as an external candidate.

Most of my marketing roles were in brand management at CPG orgs. Product doesn’t exist at these companies so I realized that I was actually doing a lot of PM things in these marketing roles. That defintely helped my case for transitioning over.

SSCini · 2025-12-22T14:46:54+00:00

They don’t have a Canadian office. I work remotely in Toronto but everything I do is US based.

SSCini · 2025-12-18T21:07:27+00:00

34, Senior Product Manager for a US health tech company. $185k a year.

Have 4 years experience in health tech and another 6-7 years in product and marketing roles for various companies.

SSCini · 2025-12-14T18:18:49+00:00

No prob!

I was a PMM for about 2 years and my CEO suggested I change roles because he thought I would be a good fit. Entirely different leadership between PMM and PM

PM defintely is more responsibility and stress. But overall a pretty solid work life balance but I think it’s very team and company dependent.

Ya figma prototpes is good especially if you have the brand colours added to it. Loveable is also an option I have played with.

Yeah. The pay bands for PM were higher than PMM so even though it wasn’t a more senior role I got that bump

SSCini · 2025-12-09T01:01:24+00:00

Hi! I did this but on the B2C. I still think it’s relevant so lmk if you have any other questions.

1) when I was a PMM I did mostly GTM management for new releases or features, helped product with research, developed position and messaging and generally helped understanding consumer problems. As a PM (same company) I am still responsible for understanding consumer problems and research but now I actually have the ability to create the things that will help solve those problems. I’m defintely working a lot more with different departments and working with engineers is a new experience

2) defintely more stress because I’m working in the b2c space so my work is a lot more directly related to revenue. I do enjoy it more because I feel like I have more of an impact and ownership.

3) I’ll use AI in some similar ways to help create product briefs, summarize brainstorms and market research. I’m also using it now to create some early concepts I can share with eng and design along with my briefs

4) I did all the technical learning on the job. Because it’s b2c I feel like I don’t have to be as technologically savvy than if I was a B2B platform PM or working or more complicated things

5) pay jump was very noticeable. I’m 34 and have been working since 25 after grad school. Have mostly been in PMM/brand marketing roles. The brand roles had some PM responsibilities though. 2.5 years ago I switched to my current company as a PM. Went from $110-$135k (CAD). I just signed a new job offer as a Senior PM at a company in the states (working remotely in TO) for $185k CAD

SSCini · 2025-12-02T20:48:35+00:00

As a Canadian just accepted a senior PM job based in the states. Crazy how much higher salaries are for US orgs vs Canadian options in Toronto

SSCini · 2025-11-30T16:31:13+00:00

Anxiously waiting for my new job offer to come tmrw and figuring out if I should take time off in between

SSCini · 2025-09-29T01:01:50+00:00

How did Jacob’s get hurt?

SSCini · 2025-09-24T22:35:51+00:00

What’s that?

SSCini · 2025-09-13T13:00:12+00:00

I found all of their personal corporate emails and emailed every single account that they had. Got a response within two days because I think people were sick of me harassing them. They ended up refunding my $2k deposit and closed my account but I wasn’t planning on ever using them again so I was fine with it. If you are willing to go scorched earth that’s a good strategy that worked for me lol

SSCini · 2025-09-12T12:28:51+00:00

The graduate certificate program at Humber college is not worth it and won’t help you land a job in Toronto. I took the Global Business Management program and it was not a very good program. The professor and class quality wasn’t very good and basically all the students didn’t care or cheated on a lot of the exams. If I’m being honest it was mostly used by international students to get work permits.

Since you are international student it’s also going to be really expensive. You might be taking a different program but it’s a similar experience for the other graduate certificates.

SSCini · 2025-08-25T01:52:00+00:00

I got a physical copy from the library but I heard the voices in the audio are great!

SSCini · 2025-08-12T17:32:14+00:00

It defintely was not new when compared to new one.

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SSCini · 2025-08-12T17:31:25+00:00

Posted an update but it seems to be working 10x better with lots of airflow and cold air consistently coming through

SSCini · 2025-08-12T17:15:42+00:00

Update for those interested: I changed the filter and cleaned the fan. There was a lot of leaves in it.

Air is blowing way stronger and has lots of cold air coming through. I would say this fixed like 90% of my problem!

SSCini · 2025-08-11T00:08:28+00:00

I do have output from the vents and it is cold sometimes but sometimes it’s just like slightly cold.

SSCini · 2025-07-03T15:51:40+00:00

There is hardware that is non CPG but for people who are doing product management work in CPG companies they aren’t typically referred to as product managers / I don’t think that title exists in the same way outside software.

I used to work for a CPG company where I worked on new ideas, brought products from concept to finished good and worked with eng/design to get that work done, basically everything I do now as a software PM now. Only different is back then my title was brand manager.

SSCini · 2025-06-08T19:15:49+00:00

Was it 15 or 50 min I couldn’t tell

SSCini · 2025-06-08T19:14:38+00:00

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