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MBA Roles in Tech

Eleven roles Haas MBAs pursue in tech. The four below are set side by side in the table that follows them. Click any card for the full dossier.

(02)The big four

Start with these four.

Role / PM

Product Management

Own the what and why of a product. Sit between engineering, design, and the business to ship features users actually need.

Role / PMM

Product Marketing

Bring products to market. Positioning, messaging, launches, and competitive intel — the bridge between product and customer.

Role / BizOps

BizOps / Strategy & Ops

Internal consulting for the company. Tackle the CEO's hardest cross-functional problems and turn analysis into action.

Role / CS

Customer Success

Own customer outcomes after the sale. Drive adoption, renewal, and expansion across an account portfolio.

Dimension	Product Mgmt	Product Marketing	BizOps / Strategy	Customer Success
Core responsibility	Own product roadmap & priorities. Decide what to build and why.	Own positioning, messaging, and launch. Bring product to market.	Solve the CEO/exec team's hardest cross-functional problems.	Drive adoption, renewal, and expansion across an account portfolio.
Top skills	Technical fluency, prioritization, user empathy, written specs	Storytelling, market research, competitive intel, sales enablement	Structured thinking, modeling in Excel and SQL, executive communication	Relationship building, account strategy, data-driven quarterly business reviews (QBRs)
Day in the life	Standups, customer calls, spec reviews, roadmap trade-offs with eng & design	Launch planning, sales deck edits, analyst briefings, persona research	Building models, presenting to leadership, driving cross-team workstreams	Customer health reviews, exec business reviews, renewal forecasting
Works most with	Engineering, Design, Research	Sales, PM, Comms, Demand Gen	Finance, Strategy, Exec staff	Sales, Support, PM, Renewals
Comp band (intern → new grad)	$10–13k/mo · $180–230k	$9–12k/mo · $160–210k	$10–13k/mo · $170–220k	$8–11k/mo · $140–190k
Best for you if	You love building, sweat the details, and want to ship	You love narrative, customers, and bridging product ↔ market	You love ambiguous problems, frameworks, and exec exposure	You love long-term relationships and turning customers into champions

Comp ranges are directional and come from levels.fyi, read in July 2026. They are not Haas outcomes data, and actual offers vary by company, location, and level.

(03)More tech roles

Seven other paths worth knowing.

Each one has its own dossier, built the same way as the four above.

Role / Program

Program Management

Drive complex cross-team initiatives end-to-end. Scope, sequence, unblock, and ship across many stakeholders.

Role / People

People Ops

Talent strategy, org design, comp, and culture. Make the company a place great people want to join and stay.

Role / BD

Business Development

Build partnerships that unlock new revenue or distribution. Deal structuring, negotiation, long cycles.

Role / Corp Dev

Corporate Development

M&A and strategic investments. Source, evaluate, and execute deals that move the portfolio forward.

Role / Corp Fin

Corporate Finance

Financial planning and analysis (FP&A), treasury, investor relations, strategic finance: the financial backbone of a tech company.

Role / Research

Research

Understand users qualitatively and quantitatively. UX Research goes deep on behavior; Market Research goes wide.

Role / Sales

Sales

Close complex, high-consideration deals: B2B enterprise contracts and strategic B2C partnerships.

Curious who landed where? Read alumni stories from HTC members who took PM, PMM, BizOps, and Strategy roles at Apple, Google, Amazon, Visa, Microsoft, Adobe, and more.

Content sourced from Break Into Tech (breakinto.tech)