PM Job Kit

Your Stories

• Use stories to connect and influence your interviewer
• When answering behavioral questions use the STAR format to tell your story
• Have a story prepared ahead of any interview for the most common behavioral questions

Your Metrics

In our data-driven world, product managers are at the forefront. Product metrics are indicators of our product’s health and growth, as well as its deficiencies. PMs leverage product metrics to justify new feature ideas, strategy changes and all major decisions.

Metrics / Execution

Analytical skills are core to a PM’s role and PMs need to be fluent in numbers. Good product managers develop hero and secondary metrics to make decisions, identify issues and grow their products. As the saying goes: “What you don’t measure, you can’t improve.”

The Why You

If you want to advance to the next stages in the interview process, you need to convince the interviewer you’re the one. Why You helps explain why you’re a perfect fit and how you’d benefit from the role. To answer why you’re a perfect fit think of three ways you can meet the job description. To answer how…

Strategy

The best PMs have a clear product strategy that solves a large customer problem in a growing market. Your product strategy will detail a broad range of product details, including vision, business goals, user needs and much more. Product strategy is your most important plan. A good plan achieves the following:

Product Management Interview Process

While every company is different they generally cover the same topics and test for the same skills. Some will focus more on technical skills, others will be on cultural fit and even others on leadership skills. The guide below will help.