Intentional Product ManagerReviews of intentionalproductmanager.com

I was hesitant about the cost of this program but it more than paid for itself. As a PM with 12 + years of experience, I have been lucky enough to get recruited by Google, Meta, Amazon, etc. I went through those loops on my own and did not get an offer. This program really helped me with my own narrative and prepping for product design and analytics interviews. I will say that I was in the program for over a year and have now landed at a new role with a great pay bump. I think people online look for a silver bullet and something they can read and then succeed overnight. This job search took me over 1 year and this program was there every step of the way. I ran over 40 hours of mock interviews in this program. There are coaches out there that charge $500 an hour per session, or more. That amount of coaching would have cost $20k. The coaches in this program are $500/hr caliber. I know because I tried both. This program TEACHES you things about interviewing. It is a process! They help you get your narrative right so you can pass recruiter screens, then practice mock interviews for product design and analytics and they will also help with negotiations. This program is for people who are serious about leveling up and improving their product mindset and how they hold themselves and even attack day to day problems. It's not someone who is looking for a document or a single video on how to get into product management. They are also following and improving experiences as interview types change across specific companies and industry changes around AI interviews and AI product management.

The program has a good structure, in depth learning content and an engaged community of coaches. The team does it best to adapt to a candidate’s needs and offers personalized guidance through their job search process. This kind of support really helps in a competitive market. I had a great learning experience !

I participated in the IPM program for three months and by the end of it had a strong offer - which I accepted - and final round interviews at two other backup opportunities. Like much else in life, the more you put into the program, the more you’ll get. I found it to be an extremely helpful way to add focus and clarity to interview prep. Ultimately the effort and the story you tell needs to be your own, but the frameworks they teach and the recurring practice opportunities they offer were enormously helpful for competing in some pretty intense candidate pools.

After two years out of the job market for personal reasons, I'd started to question my own value. IPM helped me rebuild it deliberately: through consistent practice, honest feedback, and staying in motion when things felt uncertain. The weekly behavioral interview practice was the biggest unlock, running reps on my stories with real feedback every week made me a completely different candidate by the end. Will's behavioral and negotiation coaching, mocks with Nora, Gabor, Byron, and Oana, and Shobhit's referrals and mindset support all compounded. The numbers tell the story: 100+ applications over 8 months, 13 recruiter screens, 2 final rounds, 1 offer. I'm now a Senior PM at a company and role I genuinely wanted, on a team I'm very happy with. If you're in a hard search: don't put all your eggs in one basket, and don't let time out of the market convince you you've lost your edge. Get the reps in, get honest feedback, and keep moving. One honest note: this requires real accountability on your end. You're paying for coach access, exposure to other PMs, learning what people are seeing in the market, and a mindset reset. You also have to lean on your peers; I set up our weekly behavioral mock group myself. The coaches hold you to a high standard, and if you put in the work, you leave the search a sharper PM than when you walked in. A few other things I'd tell anyone joining: don't lean too much on the referral network, referrals are hard to come by in general, and the muscle you actually need is broad networking, both for this search and every role after. You have to be on top of your game and find the strategy that works for you. And there are no shortcuts on the narrative work, refining your stories only lands if you're being genuinely authentic about your experience.

The biggest value for me was the quality of the coaching. Since many of the coaches are PMs at leading tech companies, the feedback is thoughtful, practical, and grounded in real interview expectations. The sessions helped me identify gaps in my responses and improve how I approached interviews. Overall, a very useful service for anyone serious about landing a PM role.

The job market is competitive for candidates at the moment, this program is like having the most amazing cheer squad help you. It is self-paced however if you need help faster due to an interview everyone rallies around to prepare you. This program is well worth every dollar, the techniques and tips will stay with me forver.

After being laid off, I didn't want to navigate my job search alone, I realized I needed more than just another job, I needed real clarity on what I actually wanted to do next. The program is genuinely well structured, with a clear roadmap and a great mix of specialized coaches, including mindset coaching, an thought-partner, and dedicated experts for mock interviews and story crafting. One of the coaches' biggest strengths is that many are current hiring managers and working PMs, so their feedback on how a story lands felt immediately actionable. One of the best parts was the community. Mock interviews turned into real relationships, and we ended up swapping job leads, prepping techniques, and even learning how to use AI in the job search together. The result speaks for itself: after a tough product sense interview pushed me to really lean into the program, I ended up with multiple job offers and accepted a product strategist role that's a genuinely great fit, one that leverages my skills and sets me up for the next stage of my career. One honest caveat: this isn't a passive program, you have to be proactive and drive your own progress. They hold you accountable, but you have to initiate. I'd especially recommend this to mid-level PMs going through a career pivot who want real clarity on the type of role and company they're aiming for, and the preparation to actually land it.

I joined IJS at a point where I wasn't desperate for a new job — I'd just gotten married, had a stable role, and honestly wanted to take things slow. But I knew I wanted to operate at a bigger scale and work for a company whose mission I genuinely believed in. That clarity, plus IJS's structure, is what got me from a comfortable job to my current role at a leading fintech firm . I'd been through-and-through data analytics and BI for over a decade, and this was the first time in my career I was actively job searching instead of moving through referrals. I thought the hard part was already done — I'd built the experience. Turns out translating 16 years into a 3-minute story that keeps a hiring manager engaged is its own skill entirely, and it's not simple. The mock interviews with the coaches — who are strict, and rightly so — were tough, but that's exactly what made my real interviews feel just as high-stakes and prepared for. What actually moved the needle was learning to modulate the same story depending on who I was talking to — a UI/UX person versus an engineer versus a fellow PM versus a director. That structure, combined with the resume and LinkedIn work, is what kept my profile from getting lost in a pile of applicants when I reached out to my hiring manager directly on LinkedIn. And the community is real — not just marketing language. Someone in the program did a mock interview with me while on a family vacation in Spain, no obligation, just because we were both in IJS. Another member spotted how transferable my background was to a role I was applying for, in ways I couldn't have articulated myself. I went in expecting competitors and came out with people I'd now call friends. On ROI: the negotiation coaching alone paid for the program. Forget the new role — just the way I negotiated made the investment worth it. My advice to anyone on the fence: write down where you are, where you want to be, and how long you're willing to try getting there on your own. If you can't get there alone, look at real testimonials, not just cost — look at the gap this can close for you. I knew on day one I needed the structure, and IJS gave me exactly that.