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Jamie Beckett from Holley just posted for a Senior Product Manager opening on their team. I am going to start posting less product manager roles on LinkedIn and start moving these posts over to Skool and this is because I am getting blown up by hiring managers telling me to stop posting jobs they are posting on LinkedIn. This didn’t make any sense to me until I started speaking with more hiring managers about how their inbox is blown up with just horrible messages. My mission is to help as many aspiring and experience product managers land their next product manager role, but y’all have to help me out by sending better messages. Sending a generic, “I am interested” or “I applied” or “did you get my application” offers no value and it won’t help you land your next product manager job. If anything it’s only leaving a negative or at best forgettable impression to somebody who just might be your future boss. So do yourself a favor and steal my message templates in Skool, follow up, and have real conversations with hiring managers. The biggest mistakes product managers are making beyond sending out bad messages is not following up. There is reason why we have included 8 follow up slots on the Airtable and that because you NEED to follow up with your applications. You already spent the time applying so you might as well maximize your list until you get a definitive rejection, because you are only one application and one interview away from landing your next product manager role. PS Stop overlooking the smaller companies and apply to them. Seriously! I usually get 3,000 to 6,000+ impressions when I post a product manager job for a bigger company; but I only get 900 impressions when I post for roles at companies nobody has heard of. There is nothing wrong with those companies and I challenge you to interview with them. God knows you need the practice. If you want other people to give you a shot, then you need to give companies a shot too. You want hiring teams to start treating you like a like human instead of a number, then stop applying and interview for product managers like they are another number. Your vibe attracts your tribe. #ProductManagement  #WhatBadEconomy #GameHasBeenElevated #EverybodyIsOutOnTheTake

When you're considering hiring a new product manager, my favorite hack to figure out what kind of product manager to hire is using Marty Cagan's interview question from Empowered. It outlines four types of product managers - 1. Those who are super creative and great and finding novel solutions to problems. 2. Those who are able to maximize a team, given resource constraints, and still find ways to get things done. 3. Those who are very strategic - ie, you can find the best path to win. 4. Those who are very execution driven, and execute with excellence. You ask the product manager to force-rank them, and then ask why they force-ranked them that way. This can give you a ton of insight into how the product manager thinks! Even better if you ask for a situation in which they employed their top strength or had to get help in a situation with their worst skillset. #productmanagement #productmanagementhiring ---- Hi, I'm Anna. I'm a CEO and Co-founder that helps you figure out the best path toward product success in your business and helps you find a fantastic product manager when you're ready to hire. Follow for tips, insight and more!

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Ryan M. Z. from Circle K just posted for a Sr. Manager, Data Product opening on their team. I am going to start posting less product manager roles on LinkedIn and start moving these posts over to Skool and this is because I am getting blown up by hiring managers telling me to stop posting jobs they are posting on LinkedIn. This didn’t make any sense to me until I started speaking with more hiring managers about how their inbox is blown up with just horrible messages. My mission is to help as many aspiring and experience product managers land their next product manager role, but y’all have to help me out by sending better messages. Sending a generic, “I am interested” or “I applied” or “did you get my application” offers no value and it won’t help you land your next product manager job. If anything it’s only leaving a negative or at best forgettable impression to somebody who just might be your future boss. So do yourself a favor and steal my message templates in Skool, follow up, and have real conversations with hiring managers. The biggest mistakes product managers are making beyond sending out bad messages is not following up. There is reason why we have included 8 follow up slots on the Airtable and that because you NEED to follow up with your applications. You already spent the time applying so you might as well maximize your list until you get a definitive rejection, because you are only one application and one interview away from landing your next product manager role. PS Stop overlooking the smaller companies and apply to them. Seriously! I usually get 3,000 to 6,000+ impressions when I post a product manager job for a bigger company; but I only get 900 impressions when I post for roles at companies nobody has heard of. There is nothing wrong with those companies and I challenge you to interview with them. God knows you need the practice. If you want other people to give you a shot, then you need to give companies a shot too. You want hiring teams to start treating you like a like human instead of a number, then stop applying and interview for product managers like they are another number. Your vibe attracts your tribe. #ProductManagement  #WhatBadEconomy #GameHasBeenElevated #EverybodyIsOutOnTheTake

Trevor Auman from Ovivo just posted for a Product Manager opening on their team. I am going to start posting less product manager roles on LinkedIn and start moving these posts over to Skool and this is because I am getting blown up by hiring managers telling me to stop posting jobs they are posting on LinkedIn. This didn’t make any sense to me until I started speaking with more hiring managers about how their inbox is blown up with just horrible messages. My mission is to help as many aspiring and experience product managers land their next product manager role, but y’all have to help me out by sending better messages. Sending a generic, “I am interested” or “I applied” or “did you get my application” offers no value and it won’t help you land your next product manager job. If anything it’s only leaving a negative or at best forgettable impression to somebody who just might be your future boss. So do yourself a favor and steal my message templates in Skool, follow up, and have real conversations with hiring managers. The biggest mistakes product managers are making beyond sending out bad messages is not following up. There is reason why we have included 8 follow up slots on the Airtable and that because you NEED to follow up with your applications. You already spent the time applying so you might as well maximize your list until you get a definitive rejection, because you are only one application and one interview away from landing your next product manager role. PS Stop overlooking the smaller companies and apply to them. Seriously! I usually get 3,000 to 6,000+ impressions when I post a product manager job for a bigger company; but I only get 900 impressions when I post for roles at companies nobody has heard of. There is nothing wrong with those companies and I challenge you to interview with them. God knows you need the practice. If you want other people to give you a shot, then you need to give companies a shot too. You want hiring teams to start treating you like a like human instead of a number, then stop applying and interview for product managers like they are another number. Your vibe attracts your tribe. #ProductManagement  #WhatBadEconomy #GameHasBeenElevated #EverybodyIsOutOnTheTake

Hubertine Henzler from Vorto just posted for a Product Manager opening on their team. I am going to start posting less product manager roles on LinkedIn and start moving these posts over to Skool and this is because I am getting blown up by hiring managers telling me to stop posting jobs they are posting on LinkedIn. This didn’t make any sense to me until I started speaking with more hiring managers about how their inbox is blown up with just horrible messages. My mission is to help as many aspiring and experience product managers land their next product manager role, but y’all have to help me out by sending better messages. Sending a generic, “I am interested” or “I applied” or “did you get my application” offers no value and it won’t help you land your next product manager job. If anything it’s only leaving a negative or at best forgettable impression to somebody who just might be your future boss. So do yourself a favor and steal my message templates in Skool, follow up, and have real conversations with hiring managers. The biggest mistakes product managers are making beyond sending out bad messages is not following up. There is reason why we have included 8 follow up slots on the Airtable and that because you NEED to follow up with your applications. You already spent the time applying so you might as well maximize your list until you get a definitive rejection, because you are only one application and one interview away from landing your next product manager role. PS Stop overlooking the smaller companies and apply to them. Seriously! I usually get 3,000 to 6,000+ impressions when I post a product manager job for a bigger company; but I only get 900 impressions when I post for roles at companies nobody has heard of. There is nothing wrong with those companies and I challenge you to interview with them. God knows you need the practice. If you want other people to give you a shot, then you need to give companies a shot too. You want hiring teams to start treating you like a like human instead of a number, then stop applying and interview for product managers like they are another number. Your vibe attracts your tribe. #ProductManagement  #WhatBadEconomy #GameHasBeenElevated #EverybodyIsOutOnTheTake

🤔 "But I don't have a tech background..." This is the #1 concern I hear from aspiring Product Managers. In most cases, you are closer to a PM role than you think. You don't need "Product Manager" in your title to be a Product Manager. Whether you're in: Sales Operations Customer Support Marketing Finance You're probably already doing "product work" without realizing it. I've broken down exactly how to identify these hidden opportunities in your current role and transform them into PM experiences that hiring managers actually want to see. In my upcoming newsletter, I share: - The "Product Proxy" framework - Real before/after resume examples - Practical strategies to position your non-tech background as a strength The issue drops this Sunday. Link in comments 👇 #ProductManagement #CareerTransition #ProductManager #CareerAdvice

You are not a 'Product Manager' "If you ignore the steps of the product development process." I have seen way too many PMs push past this one early in their careers. They end up frustrating their colleagues in engineering and design and then hire ups have to get involved to clean out the process. How to resolve? Better hands on mentoring by senior PMs on teams.

So these two homies over here not naming names just called me out because they don't think I know the difference between product management and product marketing. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Sirs... I know they are two different roles, but product managers need to learn how to be more flexible in today's market. We had somebody in our program land an AI Program Manager role this year and is it the same as product management? No! Is there a whole bunch of overlap? Heck yeah. Solving complex problems, dealing with difficult people, and delivering impossible results within unreasonable timelines is what product managers do. You two rockstars worked at a lot of awesome companies, so you most likely have no clue how brutal the market has been for product management job hunters and the rift the tech recession has done to regular product managers who just want to work. People are struggling to land interviews and jobs because hiring managers LIKE YOURSELVES don't know what they know want, give people the run around, ghost people for weeks on end, and leave them hanging in the friend zone without a rejection email or an offer letter. There is no accountability or even the most basic level of professionalism from the hiring side and that needs to stop. Amazing how I get praised by product manager job hunters and trolled from product management hiring managers. All this just fuels me to fight harder for the people still on the job hunt. PS Don't let people bring you down. You can do anything! 7 years ago I was laughed at when I told people I was starting Product Gym, in New York of all places (those Bay Area elites laughed at New York), and I was going to bootstrap the whole thing. Haters are going to hate..... #productmanagement #productmanagementjobs #productmanagementcareers #productmanagementtransition #productgym #speedtolead

Audrey Wheat from CAPTRUST is looking Product Manager to join her team. It’s Friday people, so you know what that means there will be a lot of product manager roles posted this afternoon, but you have to learn how to pitch yourself to get an interview beyond sending an “I’m interested” message to the hiring team. Do you want access to the rest of the product manager jobs instead of just getting them one by one, then sign up for our exclusive newsletter here.  https://lnkd.in/g7stR_Nj In addition to sending you a fresh batch of urgent product manager roles each day like hot bread out of the oven, I will also be sending you some LinkedIn templates on how to convert these LinkedIn postings into interviews.  https://lnkd.in/g7stR_Nj For whatever reason I have been getting a lot of hate comments about posting this many product manager jobs from real product managers. I have no clue how some people can be that angry considering I am trying to help the community out. You can sign up for the postings in my newsletter here.  https://lnkd.in/g7stR_Nj I am hosting 7 live trainings next week with the intention of helping as many people land a product manager job as possible for FREE. My team is still posting up the meetups on Eventbrite, but I will be sending an invitation to the following trainings over the weekend.  https://lnkd.in/g7stR_Nj Real Reason Nobody is Landing Product Manager Jobs in 2024 How to Interview Against Product Managers with More Experience Cold Product Manager LinkedIn Message Templates to Convert Interviews Product Manager Resume Templates for Startups and Big Tech Roles Big Tech Product Manager Case Studies of 2024 Secret Product Manager Job Boards and Referral Network How to Increase Product Manager Job Applications w/ Chat GPT + AI PS Please RESHARE this post for all your colleagues still looking for a job. #productmanagement #productmanagementcareers #productmanagementjobs #speedtolead