Top Entry-Level Product Management Jobs

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Ready to launch your career in product management? Simplify has curated a list of the best entry-level product management jobs and Associate Product Manager (APM) programs for 2025, ideal for recent 2024 or 2025 graduates, career changers, or aspiring product managers (PMs) with a background in design, business, engineering, or data science.

These positions give you hands-on exposure to the entire product lifecycle, including: conducting user research and competitive analysis; writing product requirement documents (PRDs); collaborating with engineering, UX/UI, and marketing teams; prioritizing features on the product roadmap; defining and analyzing product metrics (KPIs).

You'll find opportunities at venture-backed startups, mid-size SaaS companies, Big Tech (including MAANG/FAANG), Fortune 500 companies, and public tech firms across fintech, edtech, healthtech, developer tools, and more.

Key details: open to new grads and career changers (no prior PM experience required); roles include Associate Product Manager, Junior PM, Product Analyst, and Product Coordinator; based in cities like San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Austin, and available in remote/hybrid formats; most roles include mentorship, PM training programs, and ownership of live features; companies hiring include those backed by a16z, Sequoia, Index, YC, and others.

Whether you're passionate about consumer apps, B2B SaaS, internal tools, or AI-driven products, Simplify’s listings can help you find your first PM role.

You can use filters to sort by industry, product domain, company stage, salary, and location, and start your journey to becoming a product leader today.

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Notion
Canva
Duolingo
Netflix
Instacart
Visa
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Got questions?

Explore our FAQ section to learn more.

Yes—PM is one of the most over-applied-to roles, especially for candidates without prior tech or internship experience. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible, but it does mean you’ll need to stand out through side projects, domain interest, or strong business + communication skills. Many PMs didn’t start in PM—they pivoted in.

Yes, but you’ll need to reframe your experience. Did you run a project? Work between engineers and designers? Analyze user feedback? Highlight those moments. Also consider joining a company in a related role, like product ops, support, or data, and pivoting internally. Many PMs started in other functions first.

Look at Product Operations, Business Analyst, Customer Success, UX Research, and Product Owner roles. These often involve working closely with PMs and give you exposure to prioritization, metrics, and product thinking, without requiring you to own the roadmap on day one.

Run your own mini product process: pick a problem, design a solution (even as a mockup), interview potential users, and write a PRD. Publish it on Notion or Medium. You don’t need to code the product. Just show how you think like a PM and can connect dots between user needs and product choices.

It’s mostly big tech (Meta, Google APM, Atlassian, Salesforce) or structured rotational programs (Capital One, Cisco, Oracle). Most startups don’t hire true new-grad PMs. That said, some Series B+ startups may consider you if you’ve interned with them or joined in another role first.

Strong written communication, user empathy, prioritization logic, and basic data analysis (SQL, Excel, maybe some Amplitude or GA). You don’t need to code, but you do need to understand how engineers think. PMs are translators, so being clear, decisive, and user-focused is what really sets you apart.