For fresh grads · Built in India
From zero PM experience to your first PM offer.
Six scrolls. One journey. Every section moves you closer to the role you've been told you can't have without experience you can't get.
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The PM Starter Kit · Free
One email · the 7-second resume test, a PRD template, and the four interview frameworks. Sent right now.
Did this work for someone like me?
Aspiring PMs who started where you are.
“The CV Toolkit rewrite alone got me 3x more recruiter responses. Rohan's mock interviews were the closest thing to the real screen.”
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engineering grad, zero PM experience
landed APM role at <Company> in 4 months
“I had read every PM book. None of them showed me what to actually do this week. The skill roadmap did.”
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non-tech background, switched into PM
first PM offer after 2 mock interviews
“Walked into the interview with the framework already in my head. The estimation question that used to terrify me felt like a checklist.”
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fresh grad, India
APM offer from a Series B startup
You have zero PM experience. That's the start, not the obstacle.
Every PM job posting wants 1–2 years of experience. You can't get that experience without the job. The internet's answer — "build a portfolio, network, prepare" — is true and useless. This site is the version that's specific, sequenced, and built for India.
You are here
A PM sits at the intersection of tech, design, and business.
Before you build a resume or rehearse a framework, get the role right. A PM is not a project manager, not a junior engineer, not a UX designer who can code. It's the person who decides what to build and why — and convinces a team it's the right call.
The exit criterion for this step: you can explain in two sentences what a PM does at a company you admire.
Your resume is your first PRD. Treat it like one.
Recruiters scan resumes in 7 seconds. With zero PM experience, the game is signalling PM thinking with whatever you've actually done — college projects, internships, side bets, college clubs. Structure, outcomes, and metrics matter more than titles.
PM Internship · 2024
Case Study: Notion onboarding
User research: 12 interviews
After CV Toolkit
3.2× more recruiter responses
Halfway through the journey
Don't lose the thread. Get the rest delivered.
One email a week. Skills, interviews, and the offer step — without the scroll.
You can practise PM skills without a PM title.
Pick a product you use every day. Write a one-page PRD for its next feature. Interview five users. Open SQL on a public dataset and answer a real question. The skills compound — and every one of them becomes a story for the interview.
Practicable without a PM title
Four question types. Four frameworks. That's the whole interview.
Product sense, analytical, estimation, behavioural. Every PM question at every Indian startup is a variant of one of these. Learn the framework, run reps with a coach, walk in with the structure already in your head.
CIRCLES
Product Sense
Design a product. Identify users, needs, and tradeoffs.
DAU drop framework
Analytical
Diagnose a metric movement with structured reasoning.
Top-down × bottom-up
Estimation
Size a market in 8 minutes without panicking.
STAR + 'why this PM?'
Behavioural
Tell stories that signal PM thinking, not just IC work.
The journey ends with "yes."
Six scrolls ago you had zero PM experience. Now you have a roadmap, a resume that signals PM thinking, skills you've practised, and four frameworks you can run cold. The next email in your inbox could be the offer — but only if the people who send those emails know you exist.
Offer accepted.
Day 0 of your PM career
Not ready to scroll the journey again?
Take the roadmap with you.
The Start Here page condenses the journey into a 5-minute read with specific actions and exit criteria for each step.