you got it finally we talk a lot about coding and software engineering on this channel but there's
equally if not more jobs that do not require any coding skills that pay over a hundred thousand
dollars annually that you can do whether you have coding skills or maybe you don't but you want to
break into tech today we are going to be covering some of the highest paying non-coding related
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when i was first getting into tech or when i think of when i used to anyways think of
the tech industry i'd always associate it with very technical roles and i think a lot of people
do that as well especially if they are inexperienced or
haven't really been in the tech industry before you think oh i would love to get into tech but
i don't want to learn how to code or coding just isn't for me so clearly tech isn't for me
and it couldn't be further from the truth yes there are a lot of amazing technical roles that
you can do within tech of course but there are equally actually probably more definitely more
roles in tech that do not require any technical skills any coding skills when going through
different roles in tech that do not require any coding i'm going to be using levels.fyi i'll link
it down below but it's a really great site and i find it to be one of the most reliable sites for
uh accurate total compensation for total packages within the tech industry so
oftentimes when i make videos that i reference or refer to different uh typical annual salaries or
full annual compensations i usually go to levels fyi because it's accurate and it's very reliable
and it has a ton of different data points based on different companies in different locations and as
always i feel like we need to have a disclaimer here stating that yes different roles or the
same role will vary based on compensation based on company and based on where you are working
so these are based out of cities throughout the united states but if you are not located in the
united states this salary this total compensation or salary might vary based on where you're located
the first one on the list is product manager there's no surprise here that product manager
would make it onto this list as it is a very high in demand and popular role that requires
zero coding skills of course like anything if you have some background or technical background it
always helps but it definitely is not required and when i go on to levels fyi the average salary for
a or sorry average total compensation i should say for a product manager varies from 180 to
160 and once again that really varies so for right now it says mastercard for the company mastercard
uh is 169 000 wells fargo is 180 000 so as you can see the salary range does vary but overall you can
easily make over a hundred thousand dollars with a product manager role so what exactly is a product
manager what do they do this is something when i got into tech and i had my first product manager
i was like what do you do like you seem to be very busy and you do a lot but i don't understand what
you do when i think product manager i like to think of them as almost the point person the
key person through developers designers the client it's kind of like there there's this like swirl or
tornado going around all these moving parts and they are in the middle of it making sure that
everything flows together smoothly other roles or other duties in a product manager's job would be
to ensure that the product planning and execution goes smoothly that everything runs smoothly that
we are meeting the clients needs or meeting the needs of the new features we are building
and they have a role where you really need to have strong communication skills excellent
planning skills breaking down problems and also being very flexible different problems
will come your way pretty much on a daily basis so you need to be able to really take different
things from both the technical side to the client side different problems coming at every angle
and be able to not completely get stressed out but rather take a step back and just solve it i
actually have and i'll pull up on screen here a little product manager job description that
i found and i think it is a good job so this would be something that if a company uh was
looking for a product manager they would use and it says here the product manager is responsible
for product planning and execution throughout the product lifestyle cycle so from beginning
to end so some expectations include defining the product strategy and roadmap that's a huge thing
for product managers to really define the road map of when new features are going to be implemented
and the timeline for those and also another thing that's really important is to be an
expert with respect to the competition if you are going to be a product manager you need to know
what competition is out there what they are putting out and just be aware of that as well
the next role i want to talk about is tech sales and this is very wide term so tech sales can range
from so many different uh definitions because really at the end of the day a technology sales
individual could be selling some really complex software to more different solutions it's really
varies and i think that's why the term varies as well one thing though that remains the same
is if you are a good keyword good because there are many different kinds of tech sales people
you can easily make over a hundred thousand per year of course with tech sales you get
bonuses a lot of times if you sell a certain amount you get another bonus on top of that
there's a lot of different incentives put in place to ensure that you are meeting your quota when
i go on levels fyi for tech sales now once again this can completely range uh it says for microsoft
in actually this is in the uk it is and fourteen thousand dollars annually for aws in san francisco
it is a hundred and eighty thousand annually and well where else we got for ibm it is 200 000
annually and this by the way once again this is total compensation so they are actually including
base stock and they say they're including bonus in this so i'd be interested to know if there
is another bonus on top of this or if this is including the average percentage of bonus as
well and i'm sure we all know what tech sales do they essentially interact with other businesses
to help solve or provide solutions to their problems and they do this through selling
different softwares for the company they are working for and one thing about tech sales is
you do not need to be a technical person but you really have to have a deep understanding of the
technology you are selling so there is going to be a lot of time spent learning about the
technology you are selling what it can do the whys the hows the whats the whole what is it
what how what why when all the w's and uh really understanding it because your client might be
a very technical person other times maybe they won't be but you really don't know what kind of
level of experience to the person you are selling this technology to that you will be engaging with
so you need to come in very technically aware and technically armed with what you are selling
technical sales is really for anyone who has strong communication skills you need to be
outgoing to some degree and you also of course need to really enjoy speaking to other people
also you have to enjoy getting told no sometimes and thinking of it as a step forward versus if
some other personalities get told no they just get really sad and down and might not be a job for
them but you need to be able to stay motivated even if you get a lot of doors closed on you
because you have to be hungry if you're getting into tech sales but it can be a very lucrative
career next on the list is technical recruiter and there's many people even people i have worked
with before that start out as an engineer and actually go into recruitment because they maybe
want to break from the coding side of things they go more into technical recruitment but there are
a lot of amazing technical recruiters out there that actually have no coding no tech experience
and i know if you're watching this you're probably like yeah i've had so many terrible experiences
with technical recruiters for myself i actually had one where the job was for a javascript role
and i got on the phone with a technical recruiter and they're like tell me everything you know about
java i hardly know anything about java i thought like this is javascript it's totally different
but you have to say it in a way that you don't make the recruiter feel
silly or silly for messing up such a what they think could be such a simple mistake but for the
person who's getting interviewed it could be a make or break because it's completely different
so i've had both really good experiences with technical recruiters and also some really bad ones
but overall if you want to be a good technical recruiter you do not have to have a technical
background but you do need to spend the time doing the research and having an understanding
of the different technologies out there especially for what you're recruiting for for a technical
recruiter the average salary based on levels.fyi for example for stripe in new york city is 138
thousand we have wayfair which is in boston and that is 108 000. some places as well for technical
recruiters they will have bonuses or incentives so if you bring in this really wonderful employee or
you know you're recruiting and you find these people that are for more technical or very
difficult jobs or difficult roles to fill you will get an added on bonus for finding those people
the next one on the list is ux researcher and sometimes this is combined with ui
and ux but if it's a big enough company they might have separate roles for each and a ux researcher
systematically studies and targets users to collect and analyze data that will help inform the
product design process so when you are researching for user experience you want to understand who is
the target market what is what is their habits what is their likes what is their dislikes you
want to know the people so well ins and outs of who you are targeting and with this information
you give it back to the product designers so that they can design the best product possible
for the knowledge that they are given or for the information they are given for ux researchers a
lot of times this includes different interviews diary studies usability testing you might be doing
a b testing for example on screen if there is a button in the left hand corner how does it perform
versus if it's in the right hand corner things like this to some of us might sound very for me
for example as a software developer that sounds so it just does not sound fun to me at all but
i'm sure a lot of ux researchers think my job does not sound fun so i'm glad there's something for
everyone but they get very integra intricate and intricate i can't speak intricate in what they are
looking for and they really really analyze the finest details because it is true these little
human behaviors differentiate so much and can make a huge impact on how the product is designed and
can almost make him break a product so for ux research if i go to levels fyi let's see here
it is a very high paying one for example spotify in new york is 145 000. we have microsoft in
california which is 167 000. what else do we have here for someone just starting out in user
experience at american express it is a hundred and ten thousand so as you can see another role that
easily is over a hundred thousand uh annually okay let's talk about the next one which is marketing
operations and this is something that a lot of my friends started out in marketing and when i
was younger because it used to be a few years ago i feel like marketing was like the hottest
the hottest job to do uh if you stare in marketing or advertising you're like really cool and hip
and with it uh and maybe that's still what it is today i'm just maybe i'm just not with it's my age
i'm just kidding but um marketing operations is a really interesting job and especially
when you combine it with technology so the marketing operations is expected to manage
multiple marketing automation platforms such as the website ecommerce solutions review and
approve software that we are using content management system so maybe you are using
wordpress for the blog for your company's blog or shopify for the e-commerce side the marketing
operations person handles all of this they have to have although it's not a technical job you
do have to be able to really be able to navigate different websites very well and the back end of
things for especially content management systems or e-commerce sites you need to be familiarized
with a lot of these different tools okay let's go to levels fyi and see what the salary is okay
marketing operations okay so for stripe since we were speaking about stripe in california for a
very senior marketing operations person we are looking at 256 000 annually once again this is
for a very very senior marketing operations person but i included this because it's so great to know
that with non-technical skills you can still enter the tech industry and really make so much money
okay another one is from amazon or sorry facebook in california as well and that is for a hundred
and forty thousand annually so a little less senior of course but still an amazing paying role
and i think it's interesting the pay difference based on company and how senior you are and also
on location that really takes factor as well okay those are some of the top paying non-technical
roles that you can get working in tech and i was super excited to make this video because
as i mentioned at the beginning we speak a lot about different tech and
technical roles and how high paying they are and how amazing they are and all of this but
i really wanted to i never wanted to make people feel that if they aren't interested
in coding that there isn't a spot in tech for them because there definitely is tech is one of
if not the fastest growing industry in the world and being a part of this industry there is so many
different roles and skills required both soft and technical rules i hope you found this video very
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