A More Compassionate PM Jobs Board
It’s never been easier to find a product manager job posting.
There are so many job posting aggregation sites for product manager roles: LinkedIn, Glassdoor, AngelList, Hired, Indeed, Monster, ZipRecruiter, Robert Half, CareerBuilder, Idealist, SimplyHired, and Getwork are just a few of the many resources out there.
On top of that, recruiters have more avenues than ever to share product management opportunities. A recruiter can post PM roles with colleges and universities, share them through social media, broadcast them in newsletters, or raise awareness in Slack communities.
But, as with anything in life, you can have too much of a good thing.
Product managers are busy, and they don’t have dozens of spare hours to review every new PM job opening that’s been posted.
If there are so many product management roles out there, especially as the tech industry continues to grow so quickly, how can a PM candidate filter which jobs will fit them best?
That’s why we see the rise of curated job boards for product managers.
Experts curate job boards by leveraging their knowledge and expertise to filter out roles that won’t suit their audience. By doing so, candidates no longer need to personally vet hundreds of PM open roles for potential fit. Instead, they can rest assured that a trusted expert has narrowed down their choices to only the most promising roles available.
In conducting our research, we’ve found significant coverage for curated PM job boards with a focus on tech, hypergrowth startups, and Web3.0.
These are all valuable job boards, and creating yet another job board in one of these categories would simply create more noise and reduce the value of curation.
To decide what our focus at Product Teacher would be, we looked for unaddressed pain points that product managers had when looking for jobs where they would feel excited, empowered, and fulfilled.
After multiple rounds of research and validation, we finally settled on our focus: “compassion.”
Product managers want to know that their work is making the world a better place to live in, for a wide variety of end users and customers. They want to work at companies that take care of the planet and its people. They want to accelerate their careers, not just organically through “trial by fire”, but also through structured professional development.
Product managers pour their heart and soul into their work. They don’t want to work for companies that treat their employees as replaceable cogs. Their ambitions are far greater than simple profit maximization. They want to build a better, more compassionate world, and that’s why they’re so emotionally invested in their craft.
At Product Teacher, we seek to elevate PM job postings from organizations that are:
Making the world a meaningfully better place
Committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion through both frontline initiatives and executive leadership representation
Invested in employees’ professional career growth, not just the growth of the business
Our job board only includes product management roles. We’ve purposefully filtered out product marketing, product operations, and other kinds of tech roles, because we know that the best product management candidates are looking specifically for product management roles.
We’ve partnered with Pallet to enable us to drive this deeper review and curation process. For each posting, we conduct independent research before approving or rejecting the posting.
Here’s a non-exhaustive sample of the kinds of research we do for every PM job post:
We analyze job descriptions for autonomy, empowerment, and growth
We look for cultural values and operating guides that promote transparency and trust
We assess the growth trajectory and sustainability of each company
We review DEI reports for thoughtfulness of strategy and year-over-year improvements
We dive into employee-driven reports (e.g. Fishbowl, Glassdoor, Comparably, etc.)
We check for a broader mission than a single-minded focus on profits, and we prioritize nonprofits and B-corps
Our job board is highly selective, because the Product Teacher reader base is extraordinarily talented. We’re committed to surfacing compassionate, high-potential product management roles for our community.
If you work for a compassionate organization that fundamentally believes in both “solving customer pain” and “solving employee pain”, then we invite you to apply to our curated PM jobs board.
