How to Get Product Experience Without Being a Product Manager

Alex Mitchell
The Modern Product Manager
8 min readSep 27, 2020

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Over the past decade, the Product Management career has grown incredibly quickly and has become very, very popular.

In 2018 alone, job openings for Product Managers grew 30% (LinkedIn) and both Product Management and Product Development were among the most in-demand skills on LinkedIn.

But, it’s also becoming harder than ever for aspiring Product Managers to break in! Many Associate or Junior Product Manager roles either explicitly or implicitly require some Product experience.

“Wait…I need Product experience for a Junior Product role where I’m supposed to learn more about Product and build my Product skills!?”

Sounds a bit like a catch-22!

However, there are many ways you can build Product Management experience without actually ever having the title “Product Manager.”

Are you skeptical?

Well, read ahead and find out how!

How to get PM Experience Without Being a PM

Live The Role

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Alex Mitchell
The Modern Product Manager

Product @Kinsured | 5x Product Leader/Founder | Syndicate: bit.ly/mitchell-ventures | Author: @producthandbook @disruptbook