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Product Manager CV Guide + Tailored Template (2026)

PM CVs are the hardest to write because the output is always 'shipped a feature'. The trick is to name the metric that moved, activation, retention, revenue, NPS, and by how much. If you can't, you look replaceable.

Keywords to include (if honest)

  • Ownership, prioritisation, roadmap, stakeholder management

  • North star metrics, OKRs, leading / lagging indicators

  • A/B testing, experimentation, funnel analytics

  • User research, interviews, Jobs To Be Done (JTBD)

  • Jira, Linear, Notion, Figma, Amplitude, Mixpanel, Segment

  • SQL (even basic, being able to self-serve is a PM superpower)

  • Launch strategies, go-to-market, positioning

Only include skills you can defend in an interview. Inflated skill lists fail the first phone screen.

What this CV needs to have

  • One metric moved per role, minimum. Ideally the north-star metric of that product area.

  • Evidence you shipped (not 'scoped', not 'defined')

  • Scale signal: MAU, ARR, users, markets, any context for the impact

  • Specific collaboration: 'Led 3-engineer pod + 1 designer for…'

Bullets: before and after

Weak

Worked with engineering to ship new features for the onboarding flow.

Strong

Owned onboarding for Acme's B2B product; 6 shipped experiments lifted day-7 activation from 31% to 52% across 40k new signups/quarter.

Weak

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to launch a new product.

Strong

Led the launch of Acme's first payments product (0→1) with a 4-eng pod + 1 designer; hit $200k MRR in 90 days.

Weak

Defined the product roadmap.

Strong

Replaced a 6-month feature backlog with 3 quarterly bets grounded in customer interviews; shipped 2/3 on time, drove 25% retention lift.

Project ideas (if yours is thin)

  • A Substack / Medium post analysing a real product launch

  • A case study deck on a feature you shipped (screenshots, metrics, tradeoffs)

  • A no-code MVP (Webflow + Airtable + Stripe) with real users

  • A teardown of a well-known product you'd redesign

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