Product Career Ladders

In the last few years, companies from Google to Oscar have helped bring clarity to what career progression as a product manager looks like.

What You'll Learn

Intro to Product Manager Progression
How to Level Up Your PM Career
Actual PM Levels from Leading Companies

Intro to Product Manager Progression
- Product Management Career Ladders at 8 Top Technology Firms
  Sachin Rekhi, CEO & Founder, Amazon
- Product Management Careers: Levels, Career Growth, and Promotions
  Brent Tworetzky, SVP Product, InVision
How to Level Up Your PM Career
- Hacking Your Product Leader Career
  Gibson Biddle, Chief Product Officer, Netflix
  Gibson provides a map for how to become a product leader, and covers: 1. The Required Technical & Functional Leadership Skills for a Product Leader 2. Embracing Creativity & Risk, Including Framing Your Career Hypotheses 3. How to Build a Personal Board of Product Advisors
- The Career Dilemma: Hunter Walk’s Advice to Product Managers
  Hunter Walk, Director of Product, Google
  Hunter explains the common career fork that PMs often arrive at: whether to stay hands-on as a PM individual contributor (including as a Senior or Principal PM), or become a manager of PMs.
- Ask Women in Product: How do I get promoted to Senior PM?
  Tanmayi Sai, Senior Product Manager, Zynga
  Tanmayi Sai and Alexandra Edelstein offer straightforward and practical advice to get promoted to SPM: * Expand your areas of scope across strategic thinking, measuring success, analytics, and product sense * Improve overall product team processes
Actual PM Levels from Leading Companies
- Steps to success: The importance of a clear career path for product managers
  Brian Donohue, Director of Product, Intercom
- Product Manager Skills By Seniority Level — A Deep Breakdown
  Brent Tworetzky, SVP Product, XO Group
- A deep dive into Product Management leveling at Oscar
  Sara Wajnberg, Chief Product Officer, Oscar
- GitLab's Product Management Career Development Framework
  GitLab, Editorial Team, GitLab
- Gusto’s PM Career Framework
  Eric Schuchman, Head of Product, Gusto
- Optimizely’s Product Manager Leveling Framework
  Jon Noronha, Senior Director, Product Management, Optimizely

Product Career Ladders

What You'll Learn

Intro to Product Manager Progression

How to Level Up Your PM Career

Actual PM Levels from Leading Companies

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