Available Now: Breaking Into Product Management

Are you looking to dominate product manager interviews or position yourself as the ideal candidate for a product management job?

Well, look no further! Product Manager HQ now has a Breaking Into Product Management Guide, available here:

• Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1670792714/
• Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083F72JR9/
• Ebook: https://www.productmanagerhq.com/guide/

Over the past few years, PMHQ Co-Founder Clement Kao has compiled this book from his personal experience breaking into product management and from speaking to product managers around the world who broke into the industry.

We created this guide to help provide you with all of the information you’ll need to get a firm grasp on various PM roles in different industries, to establish your foundation to best position yourself for a PM position, and to share tactical tips and frameworks with you for dominating product manager interviews.

What’s in the guide?

This Guide to Breaking into Product Management contains 4 separate sections with 22 separate chapters covering the following topics:

Part 1: Introduction to Product Management

• What Is a Product Manager?
• A Day in the Life of a Consumer Product Manager
• A Day in the Life of a Mobile Gaming Product Manager
• A Day in the Life of a B2B Product Manager
• A Day in the Life of a Platform Product Manager
• Thinking like a Product Manager

Part 2: Establishing Your Foundation

• Do You Need an MBA?
• Do You Need a Technical Background?
• Derisking Your Journey to Product Management
• Pre-Interview Research
• How to Write an Effective Resume
• How I Became a Product Manager

Part 3: Crushing the Interview

• Effective Interview Practice
• Interview Question: Create a Product Roadmap
• Interview Question: Analyze a Metric Change
• Interview Question: The Failure Question
• Interview Question: The Product Design Question
• Interview Question: The Favorite Product Question
• Interview Question: Improve a Product
• Interview Question: Create a New Product
• Interview Question: The Prioritization Question

Part 4: Closing Thoughts

• The Next Steps to Take

Each chapter is designed to provide you with immediately actionable insight. At the end of each chapter, you’ll have the opportunity to reflect on what you learned and on how to apply it to your product management journey.

Who is this guide for?

• Anyone who is curious about the product management role and wants to best position themselves to break into the role
• Anyone beginning their career in tech or making a career change
• Anyone looking for a product management job at a tech company or startup

What are the requirements?

There are no requirements and no technical knowledge required! We intentionally added plenty of descriptive text to make sure that anyone can easily understand this guide.