These five high paying tech jobs that require no coding
have to be on your list
if you're looking to make a career change or if you're looking for a better job.
Listen.
Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, said it a few years ago.
Every business is a tech business.
Every company is becoming a software company.
Yet many businesses are struggling to find the talent with McKinsey
noting in a recent study that 43% of companies are struggling
with skills gaps and really trying hard to find talented people.
So how are you going to take advantage of this trend and be able to land
one of these
high paying six figures tech jobs, even if you don't have any coding skills?
Hey, welcome.
Welcome back to the show.
My name is Laura and many years ago I decided to change my consulting job
for a career in tech.
And after spending nine years in one of the largest tech companies
in the world in six different jobs, and having hired multiple
dozens of people myself, many of them with no coding skills,
I decided to spend today's video and share with you these five
high paying, no coding tech jobs that you should consider as well
and tell you exactly what you need to know and what kind of skills and capabilities
are required so that you can be considered for these jobs.
So let's dove in. Here's the deal.
Many people believe that if you work in a tech company,
you need to have deep technical skills or to be a software engineer.
But the truth is, you don't.
If there's anything that you will be remembering after this video, is this
you really don't?
In fact,
my husband and I used to have this joke because many people thought that I was
the techie in the family because I was working for a tech company
when in fact my husband is really the tech brain of the family.
He was building cloud solutions and sophisticated A.I.
models, yet he was not working for a tech company.
There you go.
You really do not need deep technical skills to work in tech.
The first tech job
that you should definitely consider if you have no coding skills, but
ideally you have a business background is that of a product manager
and a product manager is somebody with a high level strategic vision.
They see an opportunity in the market. They see a niche.
They see a set of features that could be done differently
or better than the competition.
And they know of a better way to solve a customer need.
Typically, they will see that they will understand based on customer
feedback, based on analytics, what can be done better.
And then they create together with their teams, a roadmap for that product.
This might not sound very easy and clear, so let me take an example
that hopefully everybody knows, and that is Zoom.
Let's take Zoom, which is probably a calling solution
that each and every one of you has heard of, probably used as well.
If you are a product manager at Zoom, you probably have noticed that
there are a lot of solutions in the market coming up with webinar offerings.
So what would you think as a product manager?
Hey, there is a market opportunity there.
I could expand my set of features and I could also offer webinars
to people who already are using Zoom.
And then obviously you can sell that separately to new customers as well.
So this is what a product manager does.
They see the niche, they see the opportunity in the market,
and then they work on creating the roadmap.
They figure out, okay,
within a period of time, we want to come up with this webinar offering
and then in another period of time we want to add to this other offering
and then develop the solution so that it continues to be differentiated
and gain a stronger position in the market in terms of earning.
Obviously, it depends a lot on the sources
that you check out, but in principle, as a product manager,
typically you would expect to earn between 83 and $150,000.
You can make all the way up to $200,000, depending on the product that you're
selling and the position and the expertize that you have in the field.
But on average, you can expect about 100, $110,000 per year.
So the next really attractive career path or job that you should consider
in the tech space is that of a business analyst.
And business analysts are really key because they are able to speak
both languages.
They work both with business and I.T.
They are the bridge between the two worlds, if you will.
Coming back to my example of the Zoom team developing the webinar feature,
the product manager in Zoom said, okay, I want to develop a webinar feature.
That product owners, they probably said, okay, first we want to come up with an MVP
and we want to test
a thousand participants and then we want to be able
to go up to 5000 and we want to have a recording feature.
Then we want to be able to go up to 10,000 participants.
We want to have the recording feature, the video calling,
and we also want to be able to implement email sequence
to be sent to all participants.
So then the business analyst
will take these features, these requirements from the business side,
and we'll translate them into tech lingo, if you will, for the development team.
And we'll say, okay, development team, this is what your requirements are.
We need this interface that looks like this
and this button that does that, and then we want to be able to do this.
So they develop this user journey and story that will enable
the development team to know exactly what to develop and how to develop.
And they will be able to then work on those technical requirements.
As you can see, the business analyst has a very unique positioning
between the business side and the tech side and having knowledge
that allows you to speak to both worlds and being a very good communicator
will absolutely help you succeed in this kind of job.
In terms of pay, you can expect somewhere between 94,000 and 120,000 per year,
with an average at around $110,000 per year.
But here's the deal.
You can get any of these jobs or the ones that I'm going to cover next.
In any company.
You don't really have to work for Google or Amazon or Microsoft or Apple or Midha
because nowadays with Tech becoming the norm pretty much every company
is a software company and many companies you will have seen
have been developing their I.T department so that they can develop
their own solutions to use internally and drive their own
digital transformation or even to sell to their own customers.
Absolutely.
You will not be finding any trouble
in getting a job if you follow any of these five paths.
The next really attractive job that you can do in the tech space
without having any coding skills is that of a project manager.
Today I'm going to talk about a project manager only, but you have a lot of growth
opportunities as well.
You can become a program manager and manage multiple project
or you can then become a delivery manager and manage multiple programs.
Definitely lots of opportunity to grow.
But let's come back to a project manager.
If you are somebody who is passionate
about being organized, being organized is part of your innate skills.
You like to manage people,
you like to manage timelines and you like to get stuff done.
Then absolutely consider becoming a project manager.
You will find no trouble getting a job
because there is such a high need for a project manager.
So let me explain a lot easier and come back to my Zoom webinar example.
So let's say the business analyst has put together the technical requirement
and they come to you and you work together, you're the project manager
and you need to estimate and figure out timelines, capacity.
You need to know how many people you need in order to work
on those requirements, what timelines would be involved,
what budgets and costs would be involved, and so on and so forth.
And then you need to manage the different situations that arrive or arise,
because sometimes your capacity needs to be flexible.
You need to increase or decrease capacity.
You need to work with the analyst and sometimes with a product owner
be agile in terms of how you prioritize the different work streams
and so on and so forth.
Consider becoming a project manager.
That is definitely
a great opportunity in the tech space, even if you have zero coding skills.
Now in terms of pay, again, this varies a lot depending on the company
that you will be working for and how much
your experience is in that space.
So you can expect between 70 $80,000 a year
all the way to 130, 150,000, median 100,
$120,000 a year or a project manager job.
Okay.
So another big realization
that many people have is that tech companies are just like any other company.
They need all the regular functions that any company needs,
which is why number four is a sales specialist.
Obviously, tech companies need to sell as well.
You can be a business seller or a technical center,
and I'm going to explain the difference between the two.
Let's use our Zoom webinars example because I think that is going to
make it a lot easier to understand.
So if you are a business seller and you want to sell your webinars feature,
then what you do is you go and engage with people in businesses
that will need a webinar solution and you pitch them
the business impact that adopting your solution will have on their business.
They will increase their reach, they will increase participation and so on
and so forth.
So you will be talking to them from a business standpoint,
which is why you don't really need to have any coding skills.
You don't really need to understand technology much either.
You need to only understand the basics, but be able to translate those
into business impact for your customers to see the value of buying your solution.
Now, if you are a technical seller, then you do need to be
a lot more knowledgeable on the technical side.
You don't need to code still, but you do need to understand technology
because what you need to do is be able to understand
the current infrastructure that your customer has.
Let's say they already work with Skype or
Microsoft teams or they work with Cisco, WebEx and so forth.
And you need to figure out how you can introduce
Zoom webinars into the infrastructure that they currently have
and whether that will work with what they have already or not.
And then the complexity starts.
You do need to understand how your features
and the technology that you are selling can work together with what they have.
And if not, then what needs to happen in order to make it
be seamlessly integrated.
Now, if you are a business or a technical seller
for a tech company, obviously you need to be very good at sales.
You need to have negotiation skills, you need to have really good
communication skills.
And you ideally should have a sales background.
You need to be able to sell.
You need to be able to have those hard conversations sometimes,
and you need to be able to pitch the value of what you are selling in terms
of salary, again, is really hard to tell, not only because the sources vary,
but also because sales roles typically have different incentive plan.
They have not just the base salary, but they will get
an incentive based on the sales that they make.
So it's really hard to tell you how much you can make.
Basically, you can expect anywhere
between 60, $80,000 to probably 200,000 and more,
depending on how your compensation plan looks like between the fixed
and the variable part of your plan.
Now, along the same lines as the previous one, number
five is another really incredible tech job
that requires no coding and that is not really a tech job.
But you can easily get one in a tech company
and that is of a digital marketeer.
You can be a digital marketing specialist and sell that technology
and the solutions that this tech company has developed.
And coming back to our webinar example, you would be using digital
channels, social media channels to tell stories
about how your webinar solution has helped other customers
reach their business KPIs, their business success metrics,
and really transform their success so that other customers
would also want to use the same solution, the same technology.
It's as easy as that.
At the end of the day,
businesses can only succeed if they have customers
who are willing to buy from them.
And the only way
that you can get customers to buy from you is if you have a really strong
marketing team.
And that is
why becoming a digital marketer for a tech company is absolutely something
you should consider in terms of how much you can make.
Again, it depends a lot on your specialty,
and I'm not going into many details here, but you can very easily
make between 60 to 80, $90,000 a year, maybe even more, again,
depending on the company you are working for and depending on your specialty.
Obviously the country you're based in influences a lot.
The amount that you make per year.
Now, if you want to pursue any of the five that I've talked about,
there are some really important skills that you should consider because
they honestly apply to all five of them and in general to tech companies.
Number one, you need very good collaboration skills
because as I've mentioned,
many of the jobs that I've talked about work with each other
and you need to be able to really closely collaborate
with a bunch of different people, oftentimes
not part of your own team or not part of your own direct reports.
And you need to be able to influence them and collaborate to reach common goals.
The other one is a really good
communication skills because there is so much collaboration going on
and there is so much dependency on one another that you really need to be able
to articulate your needs and be able to articulate your requirements
from the other teams and set the right expectations and so forth.
So communication and collaboration are really two super
important skills that you need to develop.
If you are looking for a job in tech,
the next one is being comfortable with the uncomfortable
because there is a lot of change and especially if you operate
in an agile space, then that is really the norm.
But trust me, even outside of Agile, you truly need to be comfortable
with an ever changing environment because that is probably the case
in most tech companies.
And then the other one that I believe is really, really key is being results
oriented because again, regardless of whether you work in an agile
environment or not, you need to be very focused
on the outcomes and be very driven by your results.
All tech companies care a lot about this, and if you want to know
what kind of certifications you could get in order
to increase your chances to become even more wanted in the tech space,
then you must go ahead and watch this video here where I talk
about the most in-demand and the best paying certifications that you can pursue,
because at the end of the day, certifications are not mandatory,
but they definitely can help you get a job easier and foster in the tech space.
That was it for today. Thank you so, so much for watching.
I hope this video is helpful.
I'll see you next time.
Till then, bye.