Getting Your First Product Management Job

knocking on the doorLooking over dozens of discussions, presentations and Quora threads from the last few months, a frequent question has been “How do I get a job in technical product management?”  Here is the first of three posts split along job levels:

  1. How do I move into tech product management, especially if I’m currently a developer?
  2. How do I move up from an individual PM role to Director
  3. I’m a Director of Product Management, and want to be a VP

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Webcast with John Peltier

John Peltier is a seasoned product manager out of Atlanta, and does a periodic  John Peltierwebcast with guest product folks posted on his Product Owner Vision blog.  He generously included me in an interview posted on12 December.  We recorded a half hour discussion covering:

  • How Product Camps can increase awareness among senior and executive level product management
  • How product managers can help engineering organizations to understand what product managers do outside of engineering to help ensure the success of a product
  • Options for a product manager to advance in the field

Listen to the entire session here.