Complete Product Manager Resume Guide (with FAANG Templates)

Looking to create a standout product manager resume?

This guide will help you update your resume so your application stands out in a competitive PM job market. 

We collected feedback from PMs at startups and FAANG+ companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google to create it.

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Product Manager Resume Structure

Key Elements

Here’s what every resume should include:

• Contact Information: Include your name, location, email, and links to your LinkedIn or professional pages. Put this at the top. Contact information should be no more than two single-spaced lines.
• Professional Summary: Include a brief summary highlighting your key achievements and skills. For juniors and career pivoters, focus on your education and relevant projects. A short summary should be no more than 3-5 lines explaining who you are, what you do, what you’re known for (major accomplishment/milestone), and where you’re going next (Target role)
• Work Experience: Highlight your most relevant roles in reverse chronological order, focusing on measurable achievements.
• Projects: Align your projects relevant to the industry or companies you're targeting. This space becomes truncated as you gain more experience. 
• Skills Section: Emphasize the technical skills and tools relevant to the job you’re applying for. List your best skills first. Hiring managers often assume the skills listed first are the ones you’re most comfortable with. Core skills, technical skills, and tools are also recommended to be embedded into the resume. 
• Education: Include your degree(s) and any relevant coursework or certifications, particularly if you’re a recent graduate. The education section should not take up much space, especially if you have experience. Education can be placed just below the summary for recent grads or current students. 

Formatting

The format of your resume is as important as its content.

• Margins: Maximize the white space—use ½ inch margins for your resume.
• Single Column: Use a single-column format to make it easy to read from top to bottom. 
• Use Reverse-Chronological Order: List your most recent work experience first.
• Keep it Brief:  You’ll need to keep it brief and articulate the depth and breadth of work. As a best practice, for <5 YOE, keep it to 1 page. For >5 YOE, expand to two pages with the most accomplishment bullets emphasized on your two most recent work experiences. 
• Be ATS-Friendly: Ensure your resume passes through Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) by using simple formatting and relevant keywords embedded throughout it (Core Skills, Technologies, Frameworks, Etc.). Otherwise, it might never reach a hiring manager.
• Professional Design: Use a simple, professional format with easy-to-read fonts like Arial or Calibri.

Professional Summary

Your Product Manager resume summary should act as a personal pitch, briefly summarizing your background and experience relevant to a single role in 3 to 5 sentences. 

The framework can look like this: 

• Who you are 
• What you do 
• What you’re known for (significant career accomplishment - borrow one from work experience) 
• Where you’re going next (target role - function and/or industry)

Example:

Led, developed, and launched X product into new target market, resulting in X% market adoption rate and $XXX revenue.

Work Experience

Here, focus on your achievements rather than simply listing job duties.

Align your accomplishments to the core skills of your target role.

Using a “skill:accomplishment” framework will allow your resume to read like a job description, aligning your skills and accomplishments to most job descriptions. 

Show your direct impact on core KPIs like revenue, user growth, or retention.

With the majority of recruiters spending 6-8 seconds reviewing your resume, you will want to make your resume clear, easy to read, and able to answer questions about your qualifications they may have while reading your resume.

Use the work experience section to articulate a narrative around your skills, experience, and accomplishments as a product manager.

Senior Product Managers should highlight skills like:

• Product Strategy & Vision: Ability to define and communicate a clear product vision, aligning it with business goals and market opportunities.
• Market & Customer Insights: Deep understanding of market trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape to drive product decisions.
• Stakeholder Management: Strong skills in managing and influencing cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, and sales.
• Roadmap Planning & Prioritization: Expertise in creating and managing product roadmaps, prioritizing features based on business value and resource availability.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Proficiency in using analytics and metrics to guide product decisions, track performance, and measure success.
• Leadership & Team Collaboration: Strong leadership skills to guide teams, foster collaboration, and drive product initiatives to completion.
• Communication & Presentation: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate product strategies, progress, and outcomes to stakeholders at all levels.

Early Career Product Managers should demonstrate:

• Market Research & Analysis: Ability to gather and analyze market data to understand user needs, competitive landscape, and industry trends.
• User-Centric Thinking: Empathy for users and the capacity to define problems and solutions based on user feedback and pain points.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Competency in using data analytics tools to evaluate product performance and inform decisions.
• Project Management: Skill in managing timelines, resources, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure the product development process stays on track.
• Communication & Stakeholder Management: Clear communication to collaborate with engineers, designers, marketing teams, and executives. Explain the "why" behind product decisions.
• Product Roadmap Development: Supporting the creation of product roadmaps, outlining key features, and prioritizing initiatives based on business goals.

Resume Templates

Below are three Product Manager templates you can use to frame your resume.

Each of these templates emphasizes the key elements, formatting, skills, and accomplishments as a Product Manager: 

• Senior Product Manager Resume Template
• Early Career Product Manager Resume Template
• Recent Grad Product Manager Resume Template

Tips

Here are some tips for keeping your resume bullets brief while keeping the attention of your recruiter: 

Summary Bullet

This is your opportunity to articulate the scale and scope of your role.

Help the recruiter to understand: 

• The products and services you supported & launched
• Company Industrie(s) served
• Key stakeholders collaborated/managed (i.e., directors, developers, c-suite)
• How many people have you directly led/supported
• Overall user reach and/or revenue generated 

Example: 

Currently the Lead Product Manager on the Creator Support team, leading 11 engineers and partners, enabling content creators through improving community standards. Developed and launched solutions driving a +0.6% increase in daily content posted and a +1.2% boost in monetizable views across six platforms for 3.2 Billion MAU.

Accomplishment Bullets 

These are your quantitative accomplishments and contributions while in the role.

To articulate your resume bullets, use the “Task, Action, Result” framework (borrowed from STARR).

Map your accomplishments to a core skill by placing the corresponding core skill to your accomplishment at the front of the bullet: 

• Core Skill: Accomplishment, Task scope, Action you took, Overall impact, and results. 

Example:

Adaption and Iteration: Built and monitored self-serve funnel conversion rates (i.e., sign-up, onboarding, activation, billing, etc.) on Amplitude. A/B tested new onboarding flows, achieving 100% increase in conversion.

You will likely have the most accomplishment bullet points for your two most recent experiences, with up to 5-7 bullet points. For the rest of your experiences, write between 3-5 bullet points per experience. 

Limit each accomplishment bullet to two lines (not sentences) to maximize white space and content. 

Start with action words: Begin your bullet points with strong verbs for the most impact.

If you need ideas, here's a list of powerful verbs. 

Aligning your core skills and contributions into a concise narrative helps recruiters quickly see important details and how your experience aligns with the job description and role you’re considering.

Google PM Template

Exponent's co-founder, Stephen Cognetta, used to work at Google.

This resume landed him an Associate Product Manager position at Google.

Check out our guide on how to write a great Google resume.

PM Interview Prep

Naturally, getting your foot in the door with a great product manager resume is the first step.

You'll need to ace the interview to finally get the job offer. So check out some of our interview prep and PM-specific resources to help you do that!

• 💬 Review more commonly asked sample PM interview questions.
• 📖 Read through our company-specific Product Manager interview guides
• 👯‍♂️ Practice your behavioral and leadership skills with our mock interview practice tool.
• 👨‍🎓 Take our complete Product Management interview course.