Hi all, Startup CEO/founder (4 years, enterprise B2B, 1.1M $ARR, product, marketing, sales, ops, strategy, whole shebang) currently in Midwest looking to transition back to Cali (or Austin, wife's parents are there and tacos are good) in a product role. Was in consulting for two years prior to founding the startup and Marine Corps for 6 years before that (0531 Civil Affairs). Decently technical, but it's been a few years since I pushed code on anything beyond side projects . Companies I feel would be good fits are: -MSFT -Google -Slack -Netflix -Twitter -Indeed -Intercom -Nike (long shot on here, also love Portland!) I would welcome opportunities to get resume feedback/advice as well. Been a while since I've been on this side of job hunt. Cheers, #productmanager #faang #startup #referral #productmanagerreferral #microsoft #twitter #slack #googlepm #netflixhiring #indeed #nike
As a side note, thank you for your service to our country and best of luck. As being willing to solicit advice and then being humble enough to list goes a long way in this arena.
Good luck with the search; grateful for your service. Unfortunately, Intercom won't be hiring in SF for Product roles. The entire team has been reduced and the roles will be relocated to Dublin/London. Tacos are less good on that side of the pond.
Alas the dream shall remain a dream. It's my favorite product both as a user and as a novel ideal well executed. I've also learned a lot from the Intercom blog, was my intro to jobs to be done!
We do actively hire veterans at Indeed and there are quite a few, Austin is also our head office so you will have lots of opportunity here. However we are on a hiring freeze right now. Hoping it will come off in the near future but no idea right now.
Thanks for the heads up on the hiring freeze. I was pretty impressed with the Seen by Indeed product. I'll keep looking!
I've seen a lot of this type of resume recently and all of the candidates have really struggled with the pm loops as they haven't formally learned product management anywhere. So while I see a strong bias for action and a great generalist mentality. The reality is you'd likely be better served by going to a smaller company who would value your ability to wear multiple hats vs a bigger one where they'll drill you on pm fundamentals which you haven't had much experience with. Also I don't quite get why you feel like you'd be a good fit for the companies listed. As most are pretty large and likely want pms that are more specialist than generalists in terms of both domain knowledge and skills.
Fair and thanks for the feedback. It's true that my PM experience is self taught/learn by doing type (suplimented with as much open source learning as I could find). I suppose good fit should really be places I'd want to work!