By: Grace Yeung
Who Am I?
Hi there! My name is Grace and I’m currently a new grad Product Manager (PM) at Salesforce, previously a Summer ’20 PM Intern here. I was a Fall ’20 Business Analyst Co-Op at Bluewolf IBM, a Fall ’19 PM Co-Op at GE Lighting, and a Marketing major at Northeastern University (c/o ‘21).
If you want to be a PM, great! So does everyone else.
According to TheProductManager.com, 698,945 individuals listed their profiles as a product manager on LinkedIn in August 2020 (the actual numbers are likely to be higher because some people may not have profiles on LinkedIn).
Quora reports that a LinkedIn search in 2014 using the words “How many Product Managers are in the United States” revealed that the number was at 146,333. This indicates a growth of over half a million in about six years. This may have you thinking that breaking into product management will be very easy! I hate to say it but…
It is harder to become an entry level PM at Google than to get into Harvard.
While the number of PMs has increased significantly, breaking into product management still remains incredibly difficult. Just as a single example…
