The document provides information about transitioning to a product role at top tech companies, including establishing goals, crafting a profile, and preparing for interviews. It recommends narrowing career goals to 10 specific roles/companies, optimizing one's LinkedIn profile and resume, reaching out to recruiters and connections, and creating a 2-month interview preparation plan involving practice interviews and mock assessments. Additional resources like email templates, interview guides, and the author's contact details are also listed for further career advice.

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Sri, Product Manager @ Google
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Note: Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.

6. hello!
I am Sri Gari
I enjoy contributing to your product management
careers.
You can find me at srigari.com

7. Topics
1. Establishing your goal
a. Shortlist 10 roles/companies
2. Reaching your goal
a. Craft your profile
b. Prep for interview
3. Bonus links
a. Email templates
b. Shortlisting sheet
c. Interview resources

8. 1.
Shortlisting

9. Your Career Goal
Product role at one of the 10 companies within X months
Narrow down by industry, location, experience, and title

10. Your Career Aspiration
Value
e.g. Data PM for a
music product
Skills
e.g. analytical
Interest
e.g. music

11. PM Career Transition
Your current role
Your career goal
Minimum Variable Transition
(MVT)
Minimum number of variable changes to reach transition
Location
Role Company Experience Industry

12. MVT Example
Sammie
Currently a software engineer at a
B2B API based energy company
Career Goal
PM at a top UI based B2C
energy company
Software engineer at a UI based B2C
energy company
Transitionary Role
Only company changed, all other
variables remain the same

13. Your Current Role
Current Role Possible PM Trajectory
PM
Change one variable at a time for your
next PM role, unless you are feeling lucky
Data Analyst Data PM, Cloud analytics companies
UX
Consumer companies, UI application
products
Sales
Sales tooling companies, Enterprise
products
Software
engineer
API, Infra PM

14. Shortlisting Criteria
Company PM role
No.of
jobs
Company
type
Match level
(1-5)
Connections
Connection strength
(1-5)
Ultra
Energy
Marketing
heavy
100 Analytics 3 10 5
Energy
Bee
UX heavy 10K
Public
software
company
4 4 4
Low
Energy
Backend
heavy
2 Startup 1 1 1
Criteria example for Sammie
Goal: PM at a UI based B2C energy company

15. 10 companies/roles shortlisted

16. 2.
Profile

17. Linkedin Basic Tips
1. Full profile - 100% completeness
2. Headline/Title - Product manager/owner
3. Skills - pertaining to product manager
4. Activity - publish posts, like, comment
5. Patterns - Analyze how people find you

18. Linkedin Advanced Tips
1. Search for shortlisted company PMs
2. Style your keywords matching select PMs
3. Research universities and previous companies of PMs
4. Match skills, groups, influencers PMs follow
5. Connect with those PMs and seek advice

19. Resumes
Bad Resume
Good Resume

20. Resume Tips
1 page Contact info No summary Achievements
Task & impact Job specific skills Keywords Applicable Extra Curricular

21. Resume Advanced Tips
Master resume covering all your achievements
Create trimmed resume from master resume for specific jobs
Sample keywords: Vision, roadmap, PRD, UX, wireframes, go
to market, product positioning, feature prioritization, pricing,
P&L, stakeholder mgmt, tech architecture, customer
segmentation, customer interviews, critical user journeys,
funding/resourcing, A/B test, revenue, user growth, customer
adoption

22. Reaching Out
Inbound is best, but outbound works too
Recruiters Hiring Managers Referrals

23. Recruiter/Hiring Manager Template
Hi <recruiter or hiring manager name>!
It's great to connect with you. I am excited about the Product Manager
role at <Company Name> (<link>). <mention something from the
recipient’s profile, e.g. a recent article, common group etc)>. <Connect
something from your experience with responsibilities required for the
job>. <Brief mention of your skills and experience>.
I believe this Product Manager role is a great match for my skills and
interests. Please let me know your availability for a phone chat to learn
more about the role :)
Thanks,
<your name>
<your phone number>

24. Recruiter Email Example
Hi Recruiter!
It's great to connect with you. I am excited about the Product Manager
role at Company Name (<link>). I am a foodie, just like you. With my
passion for local food, I ran a venture backed marketplace startup
connecting local bakers to consumers. Prior to my startup, I have 4
years of product management and 3 years of software engineering
experience building products at scale.
I believe this Product Manager role is a great match for my skills and
interests. Please let me know your availability for a phone chat to learn
more about the role and also share some thoughts on great food
places :)
Thanks,
Sri

25. Profile created for outbound/inbound reaching

26. 3.
Interview Prep

27. 5 PM Question Types
Analytical
Design
Strategy
Technical Behavioral

28. Design
New product
Example: Design alarm clock for
blind
Improve product
Example: Improve Google docs
Product for specific technology
Example: Design a teleportation
product
Product preferences
Example: Your most or least favorite
product

29. Analytical
Estimations
Example: How many dentists in NYC?
Success Metrics
Example: How to measure success of
Facebook?
Metric Troubleshooting
Example: Profit went down, what do
you do?
Trade-offs
Example: Would you launch feature A
or B?

30. Strategy
Market entry/exit
Example: New product line for
Amazon
Merger or Acquisition
Example: Should Facebook acquire
Uber?
Pricing
Example: How do you price space
travel?
Go to market
Example: Launch strategy for recipe
app

31. Technical
System design
Example: Design Youtube system
architecture
Explain a technology
Example: Explain ML to a 5 year old
Tech troubleshooting
Example: Latency has increased,
what do you do?
Algorithms
Example: Design a sorting algorithm

32. Behavioral
Your story
Example: Tell me about yourself
Situational
Example: What’s your biggest
failure?
Entry, exit, and future
Example: Why PM? What’s your 3
year plan?

33. Interview Assessment
Question Type Assessment Criteria
Analytical Clarification, >1 approach methods, breakdown, sanity check
Design
Clarification, high level goal, user segmentation, empathy,
creative solution
Strategy Clarification, structure, logical steps, conclusive recommendation
Technical Clarification, scoping, communication, loopholes, trade-offs
Behavioral
Can you do a great job in the new environment, experience
verification, communication skills

34. 2 Months Interview Prep Plan
Steps Detail
Interview
process
Target company criteria
Evaluation
Identify weakest and strongest question types, study the target
company
1-2 weeks 2 hours daily practice, start from weakest through strongest
1 month
mocks
Mock interviews covering at least 20 mocks
Before
interview
Stop mocks, follow news, and relax

35. Prep plan created for interviews

36. Summary
1. Establish goal of product role at 10 companies within X months
2. Craft your profile and reach out to recruiters/managers/referrals
3. Create prep plan and prepare for interview
4. Links: Email templates, Shortlisting sheet, Interview resources
5. For a step by step framework for answering interview questions or
any other career advice, reach out @srigari, linkedin, srigari.com

37. www.productschool.com
Part-time Product Management Training Courses
and
Corporate Training