June 2024

Frameworks, Tactics, Templates I have been sharing in my 1:1 career coaching over the past 10 years, so you can build a great product career

Shreyas Doshi

Managing your PM Career in 2025 and beyond

Stripe

Google

Yahoo

Course content:How to craft your product career pathHow to systematically grow your competenceHow to shortlist companies (and pick the right ones)How to get hired - Part 1How to get hired - Part 2How to choose the right offer (for you)How to get recognition in your companyReview and reflectionBonus: How to handle the tech jobs downturnPlus: 2 in-depth Q&amp;A sessions(all Zoom sessions are live, taught by Shreyas) With:- Frameworks to help you make more correct career decisions (Company Tiers, Title–Money–Scope, Tablestakes–Ego–Joy, PM skills at each level up to CPO, Competence framework, High stakes product interview strategy, ...) - Templates for being intentional about your career (3-year Lighthouse Goal, Managing up, Planning for promotions, Exec communications, ...) - Detailed scripts for tricky career conversations - Case studies from Shreyas, world-class PM leaders, and PM executive recruiters - Crowdsourced private databases of Tier 1 / 2 companies, Interview tips &amp; tactics for senior product people, Hiring lists - "My Plan" doc which you will fill out throughout the weekend, leaving you with concrete next steps to take for taking your career to the next level More than 1800 senior PMs and product leaders worldwide have taken this course over the past 12 months (including some product-focused GMs, eng leaders &amp; design leaders, who have also found the course very applicable to their career). The community is truly special and everyone is on the course Slack so you can connect with like-minded folks if you'd like. Example companies: Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Stripe, Square, Airbnb, Walmart, GE, Adobe, Dell, Nike, Uber, Wayfair, Splunk, Doordash, LinkedIn, Grammarly, Yelp, Gojek, VMWare, Flipkart, Freshworks, Shopify, Atlassian, Docusign, and 100+ startups &amp; larger companies all over the world. Titles of students range from Senior/Group/Principal PM to Director / VP / SVP / CPO.

Craft a product career that combines joy, growth, and success. On your terms.

Ambitious Senior PM - GPM - Director - VP level product managers and product leaders at startups and large technology product companies

Whether you are planning on staying &amp; growing at your current company for the next 3+ years or are thinking of changing companies

This course is not for aspiring PMs &amp; early-career PMs. Its focus is also not on the detailed steps of how to build every single PM skill

Who is this course for

What you will get out of this course

We will review tactics for improving your chances of getting hired, what managers want you to know about getting recognized &amp; promoted, how to find the right company &amp; role based on your skills &amp; ambitions, and debunk costly myths about career management.

How to get the career outcomes you want

For ambitious &amp; talented people, their decision of what companies to interview with and join is almost always the most pivotal career decision they can make. We will cover frameworks for evaluating companies that are personalized to what matters most to you in your life &amp; career.

How to find the right next company, based on what matters to you

We will discuss common situations that talented PMs run into:<ul><li>Should I join a large tech company or should I join a startup as VP Product?</li><li>Should I pursue a senior IC path or a PM Manager path?</li><li>Should I switch from B2B to consumer or vice versa? </li><li>and many other real situations...</li></ul>

How to make the hard trade-offs between Title, Money, and Scope

We will review<ul><li>How to tell if layoffs might be coming</li><li>How to decide what your game-plan should be, based on risk of layoffs &amp; alignment with your company</li><li>How to find companies that are still doing very well in this downturn</li><li>How to get hired in a competitive market</li><li>Bonus resources</li></ul>

How to handle the current jobs downturn

Even if you are not planning on making any major (or minor) career changes in 2024 &amp; 2025, the ideas, frameworks, and templates in this course will help you become a more effective career coach for PMs in your org and for PMs who are thinking of joining your team.

How to mentor & coach other PMs on their career decisions

This is an intensive weekend-only course for folks with busy calendars during the weekdays. The sessions will be recorded if you want to re-watch them. You will get access to multiple PM career management templates, which you can use for the months &amp; years after the course ends.

Tailor-made and optimized for busy senior PMs and PM leaders

You will hear a lot from Shreyas in this course, but you will also get insights from:<ul><li>Top PMs &amp; leaders worldwide who chose different career paths: Senior IC, PM leadership, Founder, Executive, CEO</li><li>Top US PM executive recruiters</li><li>PM leadership talent partners at top US VC firms</li></ul>

Learn from multiple voices

Sample of companies in recent cohorts: Google, Meta, Stripe, Amazon, Square, HashiCorp, Freshworks, Airbnb, PayPal, Slack, Walmart, Atlassian, Microsoft, Flipkart, Salesforce, Shopify, Gojek, Nike, Uber, Wish, Reddit, Adobe, GE, Plaid, Workday, VMWare, LinkedIn, Yelp, Grammarly

You will be in great company

Introduction

How to craft your path

How to systematically grow your competence

How to shortlist companies

How to get hired - Part 1

Bonus: How to handle the tech jobs downturn

Bonus: Day 1 Q&A with Shreyas

How to get hired - Part 2

How to choose the right offer (for you)

How to get recognition, manage up, and get promoted

Review and Reflection

Bonus: Day 2 Q&A with Shreyas

Bonus: Post-course Q&A with Shreyas for 1-2 hours

Course modules

Course Reviews

Your instructor

12 pm - 4 pm US Eastern Time4 pm - 8 pm GMT9:30 pm - 1:30 am India Time There will be 60-75 minutes of live Q&amp;A with Shreyas after this slot. Recording will be available in your Maven account (usually within 24 hours), in case you need to drop off earlier.

Saturday, March 22

12 pm-4 pm US Eastern Time4 pm-8 pm GMT9:30 pm-1:30 am India Time This will be followed by 60-75 minutes of live Q&amp;A, which will also be recorded. The Q&amp;As on both days are very in-depth. Many students say that they feel like they are getting 1:1 coaching from Shreyas

Sunday, March 23

You will spend 10 hours live with Shreyas, plus Q&amp;A with him. The course is fast-paced, with decades of learning &amp; actionable tactics compressed over one weekend. Recordings for all modules will also be made available for you to watch anytime afterwards.

Optimized for busy PM schedules. Templates you can use now & in the future.

Your wonderful community of peers is one of the great bonuses of this course. You can interact, connect, learn with them in a psychologically safe, positive sum environment.

Optional community events. Plus a vibrant Slack group with your cohort.

Course schedule

How is this course different from other online courses and free resources?

Every single aspect of this course is live. Shreyas will spend 10+ hours with you over the weekend, sharing in-depth experiences, frameworks, and tactics to build a product career that's great for who you are and what you want to be.

Active hands-on learning

Every single exercise during the course is thoughtfully crafted to help you make tremendous progress towards your own career plan, both immediate and longer-term. You will literally leave with a document of your own, with concrete steps to navigate the next 3 years of your career and deal with job searches or promotions along the way. Plus, you will leave with what sort of path makes sense for you longer-term.

Interactive and project-based

You will get to know and interact with an exceptional cohort of your peers in Slack, on Zoom chat, and in breakout groups. Many students have said that this is one of the best parts of taking the course.

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