You’re an expert at building user experiences and figuring out what to build next. If only your senior product manager resume and cover letter writing were like that!
We can help you fill the gaps. We’ve helped thousands of product managers land jobs and we’ve distilled everything we learned into these three product manager resume templates and guide.
What Truly Matters: Your Skills & Work Experience
Product managers, by nature, have to be focused on metrics. After all, what are you optimizing for if not a number?
Luckily, your resume should function in the same way. You want metrics describing your impact to do the talking.
Your skills section on your resume is the appetizer. It’s what recruiters look at to make sure you meet the minimum technical requirements.
9 Popular Senior Product Manager Skills
- Google Optimize
- Google Analytics
- A/B testing
- Statistics
- Customer segmentation
- Marketing funnels
- SQL
- LTV, CAC
- Excel/ Sheets
Sample Senior Product Manager Work Experiences
Let your numbers tell the story. Talk about the KPIs you helped improve in your previous product manager roles.
Be specific about what your contribution was to a project (“ran A/B testing” for example) and the outcome of that project (“improved customer conversion rate by X%”).
These don’t have to be specific to revenue. Did you improve customer engagement? Increase customer retention? Improve a marketing funnel?
Any and all measurable impact is welcomed here.
Here are some examples:
- Implemented A/B testing to determine reasoning behind customers’ top financial services choices, and suggested solutions to improve underperforming services, increasing revenue by $1.5M
- Executed long-term signup test, boosting paying customers by 38%
- Conducted in-depth market analyses, and presented reports to stakeholders, suggesting development strategies that saved $82K+ annually
- Studied market trends and user feedback, and extrapolated data in Excel to understand customer needs, and presented key insights to management and stakeholders
- Worked with leadership to present key indicators of product growth and adoption, leading to the close of a $4.1M Series B
Top 5 Tips for Your Senior Product Manager Resume
- It’s all about the impact
- We sound like a broken record at this point, but you need to focus your resume on your quantifiable impact. Product manager resumes without this are like a snowball in the desert. They just don’t make sense.
- Show your career growth
- You want to show a progressive increase in the scope of the projects you’ve taken on over your career in the way you format a resume. Employers want product managers who are ambitious and have proven they can tackle difficult challenges.
- Demonstrate project leadership
- Executives look to senior product managers to help them solve major challenges. They want project owners who can keep a project on the rails to improve the metric they’re focused on.
- Break it down for me
- As a senior product manager you likely have extensive experience presenting to others. Make mention of this on your resume. In a more remote work environment, it’s essential that product managers are effective communicators.
- Skills: the fewer, the better
- You want to demonstrate expertise in a few skills. What’s more important is demonstrating the context in which you used those skills. “Google Analytics” in isolation, for example, doesn’t say much.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I order my product manager work experiences?
- Descending order. Your most recent work experience goes at the top of your senior PM resume, your oldest experience at the bottom.
- Do I need a career summary?
- Unless you’re talking about something not in your resume, then no. For example, if you’re undergoing a career change you can mention your transferable skills in your career summary.
- How do I get past the ATS screener?
- This is classic “big resume” trying to scare you. Slight exaggeration, but ATS are pretty good at parsing resumes now. Your priority should be making it readable for humans, which is good news if you use one of our ATS-friendly templates.
