Breaking into Product Management (Your Guided Journey)

A free live session to help you demystify the path to break into Product Management, hosted by Dave from Product Academy

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Why You Should Attend
Breaking into Product Management is harder than ever — rejection, vague advice, and pricey certifications that don’t translate into real jobs.

This session is different...

You’ll learn practical frameworks, proven interview strategies, and step-by-step guidance directly from a PM leader who’s helped thousands land their first product role.

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About Your Host –
Dave started as a Junior PM and worked his way up to senior leadership roles. His frameworks have been tested globally and proven to help aspiring PMs land jobs faster.

• 18+ years in Product Management (Expedia, Vodafone, Linktree, Kajabi)
• Boldly left a $300k+ role in Australia to start over in the U.S...bringing a fresh, real-world perspective
• Senior PM at Kajabi – a platform powering $10B+ in annual creator sales
• Former Group PM at Linktree – led 0→1 product launches and scaled to 50M+ users
• 4,000+ students trained across 200+ classes at General Assembly, Melbourne Business School, EntryLevel & Harvard Innovation Labs
• Founded Product Academy, now with 1,000+ online students and a Meetup community of 2,300+ learners in Australia

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What You’ll Learn

• Proven Transition Frameworks – actionable steps used by 4,000+ aspiring PMs who successfully landed jobs
• Hands-On Learning – live exercises, mock questions, and direct feedback
• Interview Like a Pro – frameworks for product sense, execution, and behavioural interviews

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Who This Is For

• Tech professionals transitioning into Product Management (BA, Design, Eng, Project Manager, Scrum Master, etc.)
• “Unofficial PMs” doing PM work without the title
• Early-career PMs who want clarity, confidence, and insider strategies

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✅ Outcomes You’ll Walk Away With

• A clear roadmap to break into PM
• Practical strategies to stand out in interviews
• Insider insights from someone actively building and hiring in product today
• A community of peers walking the same journey

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💡 Why I’m Doing This
I built Product Academy because I kept seeing talented people shut out of Product Management — not because they weren’t capable, but because they were taught the wrong things.

• Students paying $4,000–$5,000 for PM or CSPO certifications… only to get shut down in interviews.
• Candidates jumping straight into product ideas instead of showing real product thinking.
• Hiring managers (myself included) are dismissing candidates who lean too heavily on frameworks and certificates instead of demonstrating product craft.

The truth?

1. There are no silver bullets in Product Management.
2. Certifications don’t get you hired.
3. Courses are only 20% of the learning. The other 80% comes from doing the work.
4. Experience comes before the title. Always.

I started Product Academy to cut through the noise — to teach the practical, no-fluff version of Product Management that actually works in the real world.
And because I believe knowledge should have no boundaries, I run free classes every month and provide scholarships for students in developing countries.

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🔗 Find out more here:
Product Academy: https://www.productacademy.io/
Product Dave Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/productdave/