I know a friend that looked pretty and used it

Hmmmm....Landlords will now own products too🫠

Product Manager

Founding Engineer

-College placements 
 - Solutioning and understanding the problem more than coding helped me get the role 
 - 16 LPA  
 - education: MBA + B.tech 
 - Communication and Solutioning are the art for the PM

Well well......solutioning...💯 
 I too feel coding is a good to know but not must

-Referral 
 -BD Analyst 
 -Analytical Skills 
 -38/12 
 -4,1 
 -MBA+B.Tech 
 -Making Sure your product is solving actual pain points at scale. Everything else will follow

Same here @ZNAG  
 Started as analyst...😅

1/ recruiter reached out for product analyst role, I converted to APM role 
 2/ Sr PA - was already doing fair bit of PM work 
 3/ 4 years of PA experience prior 
 4/ 18 LPA as spa, 26 LPA as APM

How did you land your 1st PM Job (referral, placement, LinkedIn, carrers, connections/network.......or any other crazy story) What were you doing before becoming PM (If fresher please let us know) ...

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

-How did you land your 1st PM Job (referral, placement, LinkedIn, carrers, connections/network.......or any other crazy story)
-What were you doing before becoming PM (If fresher please let us know)
-Skillset that helped you break into this field
-Current salary/Joining salary (If it's CTC, then what is the breakdown)
-YOE Now, YOE before joining as PM
-Education qualification while joining as PM
-Your definition of a PM
-Anything that you would like to add

1st PM Job

1st PM Job- Grapevine

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Hey. I graduated from a tier 4 uni with a non-engg degree (3 years). 

Including a breakdown of compensation to show what’s possible, apologies for the humble brag. 

Year 1: 12 lakh 
Year 3: 36 lakh + 15 lakh SOPs 
Year 6: 50 lakh + 5 lakh SOPs 
Year 8: 75 lakh + 30 lakh SOPs
Year 10: 110 lakh + 60 lakh SOPs

I’ve worked in increasingly larger companies, latest is a decacorn+.

AMA!

PM w/ 10 YOE, TC >1.5CR, AMA

Recently my company posted an opening for a PM job (5+yoe) on LinkedIn and i got final year engineering students from Tier 1/2/3 institutions in my DM asking for a referral for the job. 
I was like wtf at least first get 2-3 year of  any corporate experience and then think about moving to PM role. Why are freshers preparing for PM job out of a sudden

Why is there a sudden rise in craze for PM job

PM with 5 years of experience, AMA

So with advancement in technology since decade and then the COVID wave , many startups were having money flowing into them from VCs and there was a boost in Indian startup ecosystem, many startups achieved the status of unicorn too , i am not saying product managers were not existing before , ofcourse they were there buliding some amazing products for the users out there, but do you think that the extra cash that was coming into the system created so many product management roles as a generalist and gave rise to popularity of product management and now we can see every second person wants to be a PM

Did this give rise to so many PM roles?

I have been looking for a Product Manager role for the past 4 months. No luck yet.
The last role I took up was not matching up with my aspirations and poor work life balance, so I quit. I want to find a good fit this time. 

Please share or refer if you have any leads.

Asking for Referral - Product Manager

I know RZP is hiring, can put in a referral if anyone wishes to join

Which companies are hiring for PMs currently?

Hey everyone, excited to be doing this AMA!

A brief about me, I work currently as a Director of Product at an Indian unicorn startup 

About my career: 
- Did my undergrad from IIT and then masters from an Ivy league school
- Have been in product for almost 10 years now - across 2 Indian unicorn startups and a publicly listed company

Would love to take questions on what it means to be a PM, growing within the role, building your career, and other things :) 

Will be back here at 4 pm and start replying
Shoot away!

AMA 🎙️: Hey all, I am pmsprint, Director of Product Management at a Unicorn in India!

AMA: PM with 3.5 YoE , 40L TC , Tier 2 BTech

Senior Product Manager

How do you search for PM roles? Apart from the usual (LinkedIn).

PM Job Search

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

1. If your company is hiring, let us know if you can provide a referral or can help somehow. Be ready with a fake/temporary Email Id to accept applications/resume, if you want to.

2. If you know any other company hiring:
Would be better if you could provide the link to the job or company or its career page, it's ok if you only want to share the name.

3. If you know a stealth or very small startup hiring right now, either share someone's LinkedIn/Twitter profile whom we can reach out to or ask to DM. 

4. If you have recently interviewed at a company, try to share a bit about their expectations and interview experience.



Wherever possible, try to mention the tech stack and years of experience expected.



Happy Hunting/Helping 😃

[Who Is Hiring] [June 🧵]

Senior Software Engineer

Share your experience. Is it as simple as slogging the PM prep books, taking mocks, etc? With the influx if so many candidates from cohort based courses, how easy or hard is it?

How hard is it to get a PM job?

Hello! I am an entrepreneur who has 4+ years of relevant experience as a business analyst and of Product Manager. I am looking for a PM opportunity, as I could not scale my venture.

My experience was majorly focused in the growth domain with e-commerce and SaaS projects. I have completed a couple of PM courses to brush up my knowledge.

I have applied for 200+ companies in the past month, but did not hear back from anyone.

Kindly share any advice so I can upskill myself more effectively. 
Also please share some insights on how I can get referrals from my network.

PM - Skill enhancement/ Career growth

Hey folks!
Lately I have a feeling  of stagnation in my career as a PM. I started as an APM, got promoted and then after a switch back as an APM ( better work).
What are your thoughts on how one should look at progressing?

How to advance in PM careere

Associate Product Manager

Is the PM Job market returning?

Sharing some reflections on this:

1. Product is not a function with a large hierarchy / multiple levels in the ladder. Managerial responsibility comes in very late in the product career and the spans are typically small (relative to other functions like engineering, sales, operations). This also means a steeper funnel to the top and only a handful VP Product roles in the industry.

2. Product is centered around technology and digital consumer trends, both of which are fast changing. This requires constant unlearning and relearning. But more critically, this also means that previous knowledge/experience hits a plateau on marginal value beyond a basic threshold (where you have developed some essential product semse and skills).

3. Product managers are also much higher-paid vs other functional peers, at comparable years of experience. This means that a PM gets to a very high salary (say, 1+ crore) by the age of 40 (15-20y into their career). Tech functions in non-tech companies (like FMCG, banking) cannot offer that kind of pay, meaning salary growth beyond a point is limited to tech-first companies / limiting addressable market for lateral moves.

All of these considererd, how should PMs think about the longevity of their careers? Unlike traditional roles, this does not seem like a "retire at 60" job. What would be the realistic age one should plan for, at which career growth and salary growth will stagnate? What are ways in which a 80%ile PM can extend their career (eg: also taking up engineering management or P&L responsibility or growth function etc., to increase scope)?

PS: this post is not for the top 5-10% PMs. They will always find roles at VP level etc, this is for the 50-90%ile bucket of PM talent.

Longevity of a product career

Will commend you on a very well written and well articulated post. 
  
 Options for the future will be apparent at ~40.  Most peak roles will be achieved between 45-50. 
  
 Possible exits: 
  
 1. Running Category roles at companies which have a broad canvas, multiple product categories. 
 2. Deputing for and eventually running a P&L or a LoB. 
 3. Sales or more critically Customer Success.  Don't shy away from revenue responsibilities. 
  
 Engineering is a sharp left turn imo.  It's not an overlapping skillset at best and don't see how that is part of a PMs likely roadmap.

Sales Manager

Investor

What are some intriguing problems/ puzzles you have been subjected to as part of the PM interview process.

Format: Role –> Company –> Problem statement –> Outcome

PM Interview experience

Tier 1 MBA, 5 years of consulting plus corp strategy experience, 2 years data science exp pre MBA. Current ctc around 45.

Speaking to friends etc in the PM roles, I've developed an interest in the role. And would like to give it a fair shot. Just can't seem to figure out how. Any pointers would be really helpful.

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