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JAMES WHITBY-JAMES | PRODUCT MANAGER
123, The Street, The Town, The City NG1 234 / jimwhitbyjames@aol.com / (0114) 1234567
TWITTER: @JIMWHITBYJAMES / LINKEDIN: @JAMESWJAMES / TOOLBOX: @JAMES.WJAMES
PERSONAL STATEMENT:
I am an accomplished Product Manager with experience owning B2C products and working with senior stakeholders (c-level). I am passionate about UX and delivering a great customer experience, with a mindset geared toward data analytics and reporting for measuring success. I have proven experience with managing agile development teams and strong, proven problem solving skills. I am looking for the opportunity to own the roadmap for a core team, and to take it to the next level.
SKILLS:
- Passionate about technology products and enjoy working at the cutting edge of technology.
- An interdisciplinary thinker, skilled at blending disciplines in pursuit of a mission.
- Analytical mindset, comfortable working on data-driven projects, with insight on consumer trends.
- Solid technical background – understanding of web technologies and software development.
- Prior experience working on products utilising ASR, TTS, NLP, Machine Learning and related technologies.
- Proven ability to pull together a product roadmap across multiple products and platforms.
- Experience in product management of and agile methodologies.
- Comfortable working with an environment with lots of ambiguity and unknowns.
- Excellent communicator.
- The ability to own product development throughout the entire product lifecycle, particularly the requirement and design phases.
- Familiarity with bug tracking and reporting capabilities of systems.
WORK HISTORY:
Product Manager
Ethos Products Ltd
2014 – date
- Owning the product roadmap and work with the commercial team to deliver on the company’s lofty targets.
- Managing a development team’s backlog – writing and prioritising stories, managing the backlog; making decisions on scope to deliver value in small increments as quickly as possible.
- Working with designers/stakeholders to deliver best-in-class UX.
- Understanding the minimum viable product (MVP) – prioritising what is needed for launch to learn as quickly as possible.
- Managing relationships with stakeholders – being the go-to person for a wide range of colleagues, enabling fast decision making.
Product Manager
XYZ Ltd
2011 – 2014
- Ideation, technical development, and launch of innovative tools that supported the company’s home share ecosystem.
- Establishing a shared vision across the company by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution.
- Driving product development with a team of world-class engineers and designers.
- Integrating usability studies, research and market analysis into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction.
- Defining and analysing metrics that inform the success of products.
- Understanding the company’s strategic and competitive position and delivering products that are recognised best in the industry.
- Maximising efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm.
EDUCATION:
BS in Computer Science (1st Class Honours)
Lincoln University
2009 – 2011
A Levels – Computer Science (A), Physics (A), Maths (A), Chemistry (A)
Lincoln College
2007 – 2009
INTERESTS:
When I’m not working, I enjoy watching live comedy, road cycling, hiking and outdoor climbing. I’m also a big fan of D&D.
REFERENCES:
Jeff Stars, General Manager
Ethos Products Limited | jeff.stars@ethos.co.uk
(01949) 123456
John Snow, General Manager
XYZ Ltd | John.dempson@xyz.co.uk
(01949) 123789
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The 3 biggest product manager CV mistakes and how to prevent them
The hiring manager of a company will only spend between 8 and 9 seconds on average reading a CV, and the main reason for this is that they just don’t have the time to sit and read every single word of every CV they receive.
With so many applications being sent for just the one job, you can understand that the hiring process needs to be as swift and as efficient as possible. If you make just one of the following errors you are going to likely end up on the ‘no’ pile.
To help ensure your CV makes a great first impression, here are the 3 biggest CV mistakes and how to avoid them…
Giving too much information
Providing too much information on a CV is not going to help the hiring manager to quickly see that you’re the right person for the job. The employer doesn’t need to see your life story, and although you may have all the right skills and qualifications, they are going to struggle to find them hidden between all the irrelevant information.
What to do:
Your CV needs to be focused on the company and the role, and by using the job advert you should be able to extract all of the relevant information in order to tailor your CV. Check to see which specific skills have been requested, qualifications and experience, and then construct your CV around this vital information.
Another great way to find out more about the company is to check out their website, Facebook page, and any other social media platform they use. See what type of customers they have, what product or service they offer, and get a feel for what they are looking to achieve.
The employer wants to see a relevant and focused CV, and not a generic one. There is no need to list absolutely everything you’ve ever achieved if it is not relevant – and most likely won’t be!
Using too much generic language
Everyone that has ever written a CV has been guilty of using cliché statements like, ‘I am a fantastic team player’, but the problem with this is that it’s too generic and doesn’t hold any substance. The hiring manager can’t just take your word for it, and wants to see actual evidence of your performance and skills.
What to do:
Try to keep the generic statements to a minimum, and focus your attention more on highlighting your achievements and past performances. Rather than simply listing all of your tasks and responsibilities for each job title, you should also go into more detail of how you performed.
A successful project, an amazing idea that generated more revenue, exceptional customer service – these are all great examples to provide that would add credibility to your CV and prove that you are not just all talk and no action.
“An achievement consists of three components:
- Using a particular skill.
- Carrying out a particular activity.
- Getting a measurable / quantifiable result / benefit.
The simplest means of doing this is to employ the ‘What?/So What?’ formula, a two-step process that asks:
- What did I do?
- So what? What was the quantifiable result?” ~ International Hellenic University
Creating your own product manager CV template
If you decide to create your own CV template and layout for your information, you are going to struggle when up against so many other professional CVs. Everything has to be perfect – the layout, the font, font size, headings, paper quality, colour, spacing, and so on. It won’t matter how amazing your credentials are if they are not very well presented.
Remember, an employer will only spend a few seconds skimming through your CV and could decide to reject it based on the presentation. With other qualified applications to choose from that are professionally presented, you can understand why presentation is so important.
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Use a CV template!
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