 The biggest challenge most aspiring partner manager face is how can I become a partner manager with no experience? And how can jumpstart my PM career from scratch? What does it look like to become a partner manager and grow up their career ladder? But do you know that data shows that 91% of partner managers today, they transition into partner management with no experience. Everybody start from scratch, from somewhere, and there is an easy and simple way for everybody to start their PM career with no experience for sure. In this video, I'm going to break down the top 6 entry-level partner manager roles that's most highly recommended and rated by me based on the popularity levels and also difficulty levels so that you can actually jumpstart your PR management career with no experience at all. Stay until the end of this video where Sherwood's used the 6 types of entry-level partner management titles and positions that most people do not even think are available to them. Hey guys, this is Dr. Nian C.D., a director of product and featured in Forbes. I've helped 100 people learn the dream PM job offer in fan companies, a unicorn startup and continue to get promoted as a product leader. In this channel, we cover tech trends and free partner management training. Like and subscribe and watch our new video every Tuesday. I've helped hundreds of partner managers learn the entry-level partner manager role all the way to VP of partner management role. And majority of my students actually when they start out the partner management career, they learn offers in one of those 6 different kinds of entry-level PM titles which I really want you to follow the same exact strategy. So now let's take a look at the first type of highly recommended entry-level partner manager title and role. APM and RPM stands for associate partner manager or rotational partner management position. And those it were initially by fan companies such as Metta, Google, Apple, all those tier 1 companies that have those APM and RPM positions. Now let's take a look at those latest APM positions from Google. Google APM. So those kind of positions are designed for someone who's a fresh graduate, someone with very little partner management experience. And to start to learn partner management and start to do partner management work, it's like training plus mentorship plus doing the real cool partner management job in the very cool company. That's why everybody wants to join this APM RPM program, especially if you're undergrad with no experience, they still welcome you into those programs. You also receive lots of mentorship throughout the entire two-year APM program. And you're also getting paid very well between $100,000 after $150,000 per year. Besides fan company, they have those kind of title APM RPM. And in other non-fan companies such as Intuit, Domingo, LinkedIn, and they all have those kind of APM program. I highly recommend everybody to take a look, including startups. When they hire entry-level partner managers, they still have APM title. Check it out for sure. The second type of APM position is fresh MBA APM role. A lot of tech companies really love MBA graduate. For example, Amazon is the number one company loves MBA. They recruit MBA. They prioritize MBA. They even give MBA a senior partner manager title whilst you join Amazon as well. And there are so many entry-level position designed for MBA students. My favorite MBA-PM position is Adobe MBA University graduate for partner management specializing in AI ML. This is dream country. Perfect combination between AI and MBA, business, and cool design company. That's really my favorite. And they just opened this application a few days ago when I'm filming this video. Everybody must capture the right opportunities to get in. Of course, the best way to get into this program is get lots of referrals. If you want to check out free referrals, feel free to go to our website right here. And I'm also going to link in the description of the video where we have different referral opportunities for free for all of you guys. The third entry-level partner management position is Associate Product Specialist. And this is not a real partner manager, but it's treated as if you are a partner manager. For example, one of my students joined MasterCard as Associate Product Specialist equal to Associate Product Manager in any of the companies. And over there, you see the job description. They are performing exactly the same functionality as Associate Product Manager, for example. As Associate Product Specialist, you will have the chance to learn how to develop business cases for new product opportunities, develop scalable customer-centric product, and see those products go to market. Those are the end-to-end partner management lifecycle experience as Associate Product Specialist. This is amazing. As a Product Specialist, you are not going to lead the team, but you're going to contribute to product vision and ideas and working a cross-functional team to lead them to execute on the product strategy. This is literally a very cool role. I highly recommend everyone to increase their search and put in product specialists as a search title for you to start your product management career starting from day one. The fourth type of entry-level partner manager position is Product Analyst. Product Analyst sounds like analytical role, however, it's a product analyst and also depends on different type of companies. Product Analyst really means something very different. I highly recommend everyone to read the job description very carefully. And majority of the product analysts, they're actually running lots of A-B testing, collecting data that helps the growth of the product, which is exactly the same as an entry-level product manager, which I believe is going to grow your career significantly. For example, let's use Meta Product Growth Analyst as an example. We literally have a student who only have one year experience enjoying Meta as Product Growth Analyst and working on global growth of Meta as a company, as a platform. This is actually what she does on a day-to-day basis and is also very similar to the job description described here. The Product Growth Analyst role is embedded with product teams and they require using a mix of skills, including analytics, creative product ideation, and cross-functional collaboration. And lead the growth strategy across a large product area and drag cross-team alignment. As my student who is currently working on Meta as a product analyst, she also told me that she run a lot of A-B testing to test out new ideas to grow the company product globally. So that's why it's A-B testing plus customer insight and end-to-end product management lifecycle as a product analyst. This is such a fantastic opportunity. And guess how much is getting paid? $128,000 per year, up to $185,000 per year, plus bonuses, plus equity. This is a $250,000 job in total compensation. The fifth entry-level product manager position is product owner. Product owner itself is managing a smaller scope of product management compared with a real product manager because product owner frequently spend lots of time in the strong methodology, doing lots of engineering-facing work, but product manager doing more strategic work, designing roadmap and designing a go-to-market strategy. Therefore, product owner is an even better jump to product manager as you grow your career in a larger scale. I have helped so many students also land in product owner entry-level positions and actually the bar to become a product owner is not high at all. You can start from zero years of experience. Let's take a look at the digital product owner position at Brookcross Blue Shell, this kind of insurance company. And in level one product owner position, instead of following, you only need two years experience in digital product ownership, website management, digital marketing, or technology, which means any kind of experiences related to digital is going to count as experience. This is amazing. And one-year experience with user research and zero years experience creating customer persona, there's definitely an intro product manager position as a product owner and then you can grow your career from there. And the best part, the job description never asked for a computer science degree as product owner. Even if you work closely with engineers, you just need to know how to collaborate, how to speak the language of software engineer. I filmed a side-by-side comparison video talking about the differences between product owner and product manager. I'm gonna put it in the description of this video. You can also watch it right here where I talk about the major six differences among those two roles, including the salary differences. Now here comes the most surprising entry-level product manager position is actually the title of product manager. There is a misconception regarding what is the product manager, what is the entry-level means? And to be frank, lots of companies put the title very differently. For example, entry-level product manager at Microsoft is called product manager. There's no APM in Microsoft. In Amazon, they don't have APM either. They just have product manager level one. All you need to look at is the years of experience they've required in the job description and the salary range. Salary is the best indication regarding is the really entry-level or senior level, what kind of people is the best fit for the specific roles. And actually have so many students and actually majority of my students when they transition into product management, they directly land the product manager title inside of APM, product specialist, product analyst because you just need to know what's the best way to identify the right company that really appreciate your past transferable skills and give you opportunity directly to become a product manager without doing any entry-level work at all. Even if you might be perceived as someone who is entry-level within the company, but they are willing to give you product manager position such as Microsoft and Amazon, all those amazing companies. And also do not be fooled by the title itself because product manager position and meta can get paid at $300,000 per year easily. We also have AI product manager currently getting paid at $400,000 per year as one of my students. So even if they're title all product managers but the paid range could be significantly different depends on how you position yourself in the interview. Regardless your entry-level product manager or you're already senior or you're someone who transition into product management with years of experience and in a very different industry, the number one thing everyone needs to do is immediately learn what does the interview process look like as a product manager and what kind of questions they will be asking you. In that case, make sure to go to this website and download the 50 product manager interview questions database so that you know what kind of interview question to expect and get ready for your upcoming interviews. You might also be wondering how can I continue to grow my career as a product manager once I break in? In that case, please make sure to watch my next video where I break down the path to the product management career path from entry-level all the way to chief product officer position. This is Dr. Nian C.D. from PMExcelerator.io. I'm gonna see you in my next video right here.