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πŸ‘‹ Hey friends! I’m Stef. Former customer success rep, former startup PM, and now a Senior PM at HubSpot. I started StefThePM.com last year as a newsletter for people breaking into product or levelling up in their PM career. That turned into mentorship calls with hundreds of people like you, just trying to figure it out. Now we have this community, because figuring it out is better when you’re not doing it alone. This is a space to talk about what product work actually looks like. The messy parts included. So let’s kick things off: drop a comment and tell me who you are and where you’re at in your journey. Aspiring PM? Newly in role? Still working up the nerve to make the pivot?
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🎯 START HERE: Read this first
Hey, and welcome. Really glad you're here. This community is for people making the real pivot into PM, not the LinkedIn version, the actual version. The part where you're questioning your background, rewriting your resume for the 5th time, and wondering if you're even qualified. You are. Let's make sure hiring managers see it. --- Here's how to get started: 1. Go to πŸ‘‹ Introductions and drop a post. Tell us: your current background, what PM role you're targeting, and the one thing you're most stuck on right now. 2. Ask your first question in 🎯 Ask Stef. Post anything you'd normally Google at 11pm while spiraling about your job search. I read everything and answer here. 3. Share your work in πŸ“ Portfolio & Interview Prep. Post your resume, your interview answers, your cover letters. Get real feedback, not generic advice. 4. Celebrate in πŸŽ‰ Booyah! Wins. Everything from "I finally sent that application" to "I got the offer." We celebrate both. --- A few things I want to be upfront about: This is a small community by design. I'm not trying to build an audience here β€” I'm trying to build a room where people actually get hired. That means real feedback, real conversations, and me actually being here. If you have a question, post it. β€” Stef
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🧠 Real PM Case Study, Week 4
This one shows up in interviews more than almost any other scenario and most candidates fumble it. You're the PM for a B2B SaaS project management tool. Think Asana or Monday.com. Your product has a free tier and a paid tier, and growth has been solid. Then the data lands on your desk: free-to-paid conversion dropped 22% over the last 60 days. Support tickets are flat. NPS hasn't moved. Users aren't complaining. They're just not converting. The funnel looks healthy on the surface. But something changed. And your VP of Product wants a plan. My team had capacity for ONE initiative. Here's what was on the table: A) Paywall Repositioning Move the paywall trigger earlier in the user journey, surfacing the upgrade prompt at the moment of highest intent - like when a user tries to invite their third team member or set up an automation. Bet: users aren't converting because they reach the limit at the wrong moment, not because they don't see value. B) Activation Audit Run a full audit of what free users do (and don't do) in their first 14 days, then redesign the onboarding flow to drive them toward the "aha moment" faster - the action most correlated with paid conversion. Bet: users are churning before they've felt the product's core value, so no paywall optimization will fix it. C) Conversion Nurture Campaign Build a targeted in-app + email sequence for free users who are active but haven't converted after 30 days - personalized by use case, with a time-limited incentive to upgrade. Bet: the intent is there, but users need a nudge and a reason to act now. Here's what I want to see in your answer: - Which option do you pick, and why? - What's the one assumption your entire decision rests on? - What would you measure in the first 30 days to know if it's working? Drop your answer below. I'll reply to every single one with real feedback.
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I want to make sure what I'm building here is actually useful to you - not just what I think you need. Where are you right now? I'm building the next few weeks of content around whatever most of you say, so your answer actually shapes what comes next.
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πŸ’Ό PM Jobs This Week - as of May 21st, 2026
Fresh roles across all career levels | Scanned 2026-05-21 | Roles posted in the last 7 days | Regions: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ North America Β· πŸ‡§πŸ‡· South America Β· πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ Europe Make sure to click see more πŸ‘‡ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🟒 ENTRY LEVEL/ ASSOCIATE PM (0–3 years) Role: Associate Product Manager Company: Air Techniques Location / Remote: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Melville, NY β€” On-site Salary: $70,000–$80,000 USD Freshness: 1 hour ago Who This Is For: For 0–2 year PMs who want hands-on product ownership at a 64-year-old med-device/imaging company. You'll support the full product lifecycle β€” from requirements to testing to customer support β€” across dental imaging, NDT, and EOD environments. Lower salary but real ownership early, with a stable company that ships physical hardware. Good fit if you're coming from engineering, physics, or a technical background and want to break into PM without needing a SaaS pedigree. Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4418063313 -- Role: Product and Ops Lead β€” Sieve 🌐 Company: Sieve (via David Joseph & Co.) Location / Remote: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ San Francisco, CA β€” On-site Salary: $150,000–$250,000 USD Freshness: 23 minutes ago Who This Is For: For technically-grounded early-career candidates (ideally with 1+ year of engineering experience) who want a founding Ops/Product role at a frontier AI lab. Sieve is the only AI company exclusively focused on video data infrastructure β€” exabyte-scale, backed by Matrix Partners and Y Combinator. You'll own data operations, vendor partnerships, and human-in-the-loop workflows. Extremely wide comp range signals they're open to the right person regardless of level. No visa sponsorship. Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4414064638 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🟑 MID-LEVEL PM (3–6 years) Role: Senior Product Manager – Billing and Revenue Enablement Company: TELUS Location / Remote: πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Toronto, ON β€” On-site Salary: Not listed (TELUS senior PM bands typically CA$130K–CA$170K)
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