First things first: ask your new leadership if there's a path to another such opportunity, now that you've changed your mind on if you should've taken it. Let t

First things first: ask your new leadership if there's a path to another such opportunity, now that you've changed your mind on if you should've taken it. Let them know what you want. Don't assume your boss can read your mind or knows what you want. If you don't want to do program management or product management, but thought you might in the past, at least you have learned those things now! It would surprise me if there are, at the very least, no opportunities to mentor people and shift some of your time away from direct pgm work into mentoring or other such managing-without-direct-people-responsibilities roles. If you want to manage, are you open to doing it in PGM? But (a) don't assume it will solve all your problems and erase feelings of regret, and (b) don't assume you'll naturally be good at it without possibly having to rethink a lot of how you work, and (c) then focus on emotional issues and work style issues directly in a forward-looking way instead of just looking at the past.