Product Management: From Campus to Career! with Aman Agarwal

Product Management has become one of the most sought-after career paths for students today. But if you're a student exploring PM, there's a good chance you've already encountered the same advice everywhere:

1. Learn a few PM frameworks
2. Solve hundreds of product cases
3. Build a generic PM deck
4. Get a PM internship
5. Put “product thinking” on your resume
6. Prepare for interviews

But there’s a fundamental problem with this approach:

You can't prepare for a PM interview without actually understanding what Product Management is.

As students, it is difficult to know what the real job looks like because we haven't yet experienced the realities of building, launching, measuring, and iterating products. Most of the resources available online are also either fragmented, overly focused on interviews, or built around approaches that are becoming increasingly outdated with the rise of AI and AI-native product management.

So, I’m starting a 2-session live course for college students focused on helping you understand Product Management from the ground up - and then use that understanding to actually break into the field.

This course is my attempt to go beyond interview preparation and help students understand what it actually means to be a Product Manager.

What makes this different from conventional PM prep?

The goal isn't to teach you another set of frameworks to memorise. Instead, we will focus on:

1. What Product Management actually is
2. How real PMs think about and build products
3. How to develop genuine product thinking
4. How to evaluate whether PM is actually the right career for you beyond salary and job hype
5. How PMs make decisions with incomplete information and competing constraints
6. How to use real-world products to understand PM concepts
7. What has changed in PM hiring because of AI
8. What exactly AI Product Management means and how it differs from conventional PMing
9. How to prepare for PM interviews without becoming dependent on memorised frameworks
10. How interviewers actually evaluate candidates
11. How to build a strong profile and improve your chances of getting shortlisted

The objective is simple: Understand PM first. Prepare for the interview second.

Because once you understand what you're actually trying to demonstrate, interview preparation becomes much more meaningful.

What will the 2 sessions cover?

Session 1 — Understanding Product Management

This session is about understanding what you're actually signing up for when you choose PM as a career.

We will cover:

1. What does a Product Manager actually do?
2. How do PMs build products customers love?
3. What is product thinking?
4. How do you start thinking like a PM?
5. How do PMs identify and solve real customer problems?
6. What does the day-to-day life of a PM actually look like?
7. How do PMs work with engineering, design, business and other stakeholders?
8. How does PM career growth typically work?
9. What kind of compensation can you expect at different stages?
10. Should you actually pursue PM as a career?
11. What has changed with AI PMing and AI-native products?
12. Real-life product examples to understand how PMs think and make decisions

The goal of Session 1: By the end of this session, you should have a much clearer answer to: “What exactly is Product Management, and is this a career I genuinely want to pursue?”

Session 2 — How to Break into Product Management Today

Once you understand PMing, the next question is:

“Okay, but how do I actually get the job?”

This session will cover the complete PM placement journey:

1. A step-by-step roadmap for getting into PM
2. What PM interviews actually test
3. How to approach product/case interviews
4. How frameworks should actually be used — instead of memorised
5. Real-world product examples to understand interview concepts
6. How to approach product sense, strategy, metrics and execution questions
7. How to make a PM deck and what actually matters in one
8. What interviewers look for beyond the final answer
9. How to improve your chances of getting shortlisted
10. Building your profile while still in college
11. PM internships — what matters and what doesn't
12. On-campus vs off-campus opportunities
13. How to approach the PM job search strategically
14. Common mistakes students make during PM preparation

The goal of Session 2: To give you a practical roadmap from: “I want to become a PM” → “I know what to prepare, how to prepare, and how to approach the job search.”

So, let’s dive in — bringing together what you know today and what you need to know to break into PM today.