Practical PM Resources to Level Up
Courses, templates, and guides designed to help you build a standout portfolio, accelerate your learning, and get hired faster.
PM Launchpad (Free Course)
45+ lessons to build the strategic mindset of top product managers. Included free with community membership.
Get Hired Faster Program
A focused program to accelerate your Product Manager job search with portfolio building, networking, and interview prep.
Product Templates Kit
Battle-tested templates: PRDs, strategy docs, prioritization frameworks, roadmap briefs, and more.
Resume Library
Curated Product Manager resumes with concrete examples for each level: entry, mid, and specialized (Platform).
AI Prompt Library
High-leverage LLM prompts for every stage of the product lifecycle. Think faster, write better, and lead with clarity.
Product Interview Prep Guide
Comprehensive guide with question banks, case frameworks, and mock interview scripts.
Book Summaries
Digest the essentials from industry-leading product and leadership books, curated by Product Leader Academy mentors.
Eric Ries
Eric Ries' The Lean Startup is a pragmatic playbook for building products amid uncertainty through rapid experimentation and customer-centered learning. Instead of betting months of engineering on assumptions, teams form hypotheses, run scrappy tests, and let evidence guide what to build next. For aspiring product managers, it provides a shared language and repeatable methods to reduce waste, accelerate learning, and converge on product–market fit.
Marty Cagan's Inspired is a definitive guide to building products customers truly love. It reframes product management as a customer‑centric, outcome‑driven discipline where discovery, collaboration, and empowered teams replace feature factories and hand‑offs. For aspiring PMs, it provides practical tools to identify real problems, test solutions early, and align teams on impact.
Melissa Perri
Melissa Perri’s Escaping the Build Trap is a wake-up call for anyone stuck in the cycle of churning out features without delivering real value. It’s perfect for aspiring product managers who want to build products that matter.
Marty Cagan, Lea Hickman, Chris Jones, Christian Idiodi, and John Moore
Transformed is a playbook for shifting from feature factories and project thinking to a product operating model that delivers exceptional, customer-centered outcomes. It explains how empowered, cross-functional teams, guided by a clear vision and outcome-based goals, use continuous discovery and delivery to create real impact. For aspiring PMs, it offers the tools to lead change, align stakeholders, and build products that matter.