Podcast: How to Break Into Product Management



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Original Essay: 5 Paths To Your First Product Manager Role

I was recently invited on the PMLesson podcast to share the 5 most common paths to landing your first product management role. We discussed each of the following ways to break in as well as best practices for each path to increase your chances of successfully making the leap.
  1. The computer science graduate
  2. The engineering undergrad + recent MBA graduate
  3. The adjacent role
  4. The entrepreneur
  5. The domain expert
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Feb 28, 2019