How to Get a Product Management Job at LinkedIn

Aside from making your resume as attractive as possible, and getting the right experience and the right training, there are a couple of ways to actually land the interview.

• You can find jobs for LinkedIn directly on their careers portal.
• You may also get a job through their employee-referral scheme, or if you’ve properly optimized your LinkedIn profile, a recruiter may contact you directly.

The number of phone interviews and exactly who will be on them varies, depending on the team you’re interviewing with. Generally, your first interview will be with a recruiter. This is just a box-checking interview to make sure you have the bare essentials for a PM job.

Then you’ll have between three and five more telephone interviews with various team members. This is where they’ll be gauging things, such as culture fit, previous experience, personality, skills … everything. You should be told in advance whom you’ll be talking to.

Who attends your onsite interviews will depend on what team you’re working with. They’ll likely be with senior product managers and a director of product. 

These are the interviews where you really have to bring your game face. Make sure you know your resume, back to front. Show how data-driven you are by not just knowing what projects you worked on, but the metrics involved.

• What feature or piece of work are you most proud of?
• How would you increase enterprise engagement?
• If you were a VC, are you more bullish on AR or VR? What app would you build? What would be your killer feature?
• How would you design furniture for Airbnb?
• What is your favorite product? How would you improve it?

• Finish your profile. Fill out your profile with all your education and achievements.
• Think about your keywords. If you want to show up in searches, you need these words on your profile. 
• Use visual aids. Upload screenshots of things you’ve worked on, or photos of you with your team at events. 
• Follow industry leaders. Don’t just blindly add anyone and everyone. 
• Get involved in professional groups. Online product manager communities are a great way to network online.
• Avoid funny/witty job titles. 
• Interact with product managers. Comment on articles about product/tech, or even write your own.