This document provides guidance on how to be a successful product manager. It discusses the role and responsibilities of a product manager. It then provides tips for resumes, interview preparation, and answering common interview questions. Specifically, it recommends keeping resumes to one page, highlighting relevant projects and data, and bragging smartly. For interviews, it advises being confident, showing commitment, avoiding negativity, telling stories not just facts, and researching the company. The document also offers sample technical, product sense, and product design questions and emphasizes preparing examples and answers in advance.

1. Product
Management
How to be a successful Product Manager?

2. VARUN DAN MANOGNA PRATIMA
MEET THE TEAM

3. GOAL & PURPOSE OF THIS MEETUP
GROUP

4. ROAD AHEAD

5. Overview: Who is a Product Manager?
The job of the product manager is to “discover a
product that is valuable, usable and feasible”
–Marty Cagan (Author and Founder of SVPG)

6. PMs : The Intersectors

7. Session with Senior PM at
Amazon: Shreyas Sali

8. Shreyas G. Sali
● Senior PM at Amazon
● Product Experience in E-Commerce B2B, B2C,
Search and Recruiting Tech
● MBA (Arizona State University)
● MS - Computer Science (University of Houston)
@shreyassali @salishreyas

9. What we will cover...
RESUME
INTERVIEW PREPARATION
TELL A STORY
Do and don’ts for any resume.
Interview questions and how to structure answers.
You have more experience than you realize.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Answer any questions that you may have.

10. Resume do’s and don’ts
● Keep it to one page
● Mention relevant side projects
● Order content based on importance
● Highlight data and projects
● Focus on the most recent experience
● No keyword stuffing - fit into context
● Brag smartly

11. Interviews
STRATEGYBEHAVIORALGENERAL
BE CONFIDENT
SHOW COMMITMENT
AVOID RED-FLAGS
(NEGATIVE CONNOTATION)
TELL A STORY, NOT FACTS
PRACTISE YOUR ABOUT ME
RESEARCH THE COMPANY
BE MEMORABLE
PREPARE AND DON’T BE
COMPLACENT
ASK QUESTIONS
HAVE EXAMPLES READY
SHOW YOU ARE
SOMEONE PEOPLE WANT
TO WORK WITH
HOW DO YOU CREATE A
ROADMAP?
HOW DO YOU PRICE A
PRODUCT?
HOW DO YOU DO YOUR
PRODUCT
PRIORITIZATION?

12. Interviews
TECHNICALPRODUCT SENSEPRODUCT DESIGN
USE FRAMEWORKS TO
STRUCTURE YOUR ANSWER,
E.G. STAR
DON’T BE RIGID WITH
STRUCTURE
BE CREATIVE
PREPARE, PREPARE
TAKE TIME TO THINK
ASK CLARIFYING QUESTIONS
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
NOT THE RIGHT ANSWER
BUT FOCUS ON APPROACH
ASK CLARIFYING
QUESTIONS
TAKE TIME TO BREAKDOWN
THE PROBLEM
KNOW HOW TO PRIORITIZE
HYPOTHESIS FIRST
BREAKDOWN TECHNICAL
COMPONENTS
GO OVER FEW TYPICAL
TECHNICAL QUESTIONS,
E.G. API, CLOUD
COMPUTING
HOW DO YOU WORK WITH
ENGINEERS
KNOW YOUR LIMITATIONS

13. Tell a Story
But tailor to your audience

14. Tell a story
Don’t have a story? Make one.
● Volunteer
● Work on a pet project
● Take a product approach to your projects

15. Q&A
ASK ME ABOUT ANYTHING!
Interviewing, Product Management, Changing Careers, etc.

16. Thank You!
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