LOW CONTEXT
Apply cold
You enter a crowded process before anyone knows why your background fits this team.
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Career coaching for senior product leaders
A better role starts with a better search.
David Speigel helps experienced product managers and product leaders turn a vague job search into a focused path to the right teams, stronger interviews, and a better offer.
Free 45-minute discovery call with David.
★★★★★5.0 coaching rating300+ PMs coached
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20+years in product
2×Director of Product
300+PMs coached
10×more interviews
5.0coaching rating
David has helped PMs land interviews and jobs at these companies.
The part most searches miss
You can be qualified and still be invisible. Senior hiring gets easier when the right people can place you in the right conversation.
Method
The search has three lanes. Most people stay in the weakest one.
Applications are useful, but they rarely create context. A senior search needs a target role, a target team, a point of view, and conversations with people close to the work.
LIMITED CONTEXT
Wait for a recruiter
You may get a conversation, but the recruiter cannot speak for every team inside a company.
ContextLimited
HIGH CONTEXT
Build the path in
Start with people who know the work. Learn the team’s problem. Earn a relevant introduction.
ContextHigh
The 4 Ps of a winning job search.
Four pillars, one coherent search. Networking runs through all of them.
Networking runs through all four
Position
Who are you, and what are you seeking?
- Clear P0 goal
- Unique selling proposition
- LinkedIn headline
- Target company list
- LinkedIn profile and resume
- Narrative pressure-testing
The networking edgePressure-test your story with people who hold the role you want.
Pipeline
Land a lot of interviews.
- Mindset: a clear reason to reach out
- Methods: find teams and hiring managers
- Messaging: 14 templates and the Them–You–Do formula
- Management: track conversations and follow-ups
- Build paths into posted and unposted roles
The networking edgeBuild advocates close to the team, not just referrals into the company.
Perform
Win the interviews.
- Behavioral preparation
- Story-bank development
- Mock interviews
- A clear “tell me about yourself”
- Show judgment, scope, and impact at your target level
The networking edgeLearn the team’s priorities so your examples speak to the actual work.
Profit
Land and negotiate the offer.
- Stack offers
- Negotiate from scope and impact
- Negotiate the best offer from the beginning
- Get insider information
The networking edgeGet insider information on the role before the offer conversation.
Client results
Specific beats impressive.
Feedback from people David has coached. Outcomes vary with the market, the target, and the work put in.
His advice helped me simplify my messaging, increase the quality of my outreach, and approach conversations with more purpose. As a result, my response rates noticeably improved, and I began generating more meaningful conversations with hiring leaders and peers in the industry.
Owais SiddiquiProduct Executive
Career outcomeAccepted a Managing Director role at JPMorgan Chase, following a role at Realtor.com and a competing offer from PayPal.
David is great, highly recommend. I landed several interviews in less than a month.
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IdohProduct Manager, Meta
My response rate went from almost zero to about a dozen callbacks.
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JaredProduct Manager, Palantir
The networking work
A pipeline needs regular conversations.
We set an outreach routine around your targets and capacity. Relevant messages and consistent follow-up matter as much as volume.
Occasional outreach
A low-activity example
- Connection requests
- 40 / month
- Assumed acceptance rate
- 15%
- New connections
- 6 / month
- New conversations
- 6 or fewer / month
A planned routine
A higher-activity example
- Targeted connection requests
- 200 / week
- Assumed acceptance rate
- 75%
- New connections
- 150 / week
- New conversations at a 50% reply rate
- 75 / week
The goal of those conversations: interviews, introductions, and insider information.
Illustrative scenario, not typical results or a required weekly quota. A reply can start a conversation; it is not an interview. Your plan depends on your time, audience, and LinkedIn’s account limits. Outreach is personal, not automated.
Engagement details
A focused search for the role you actually want.
One-on-one coaching for experienced product managers and product leaders, from positioning through offer negotiation.
PositionOne clear target role and your unique selling proposition. A 10/10 LinkedIn headline showing scope and impact, a company list built around field, stage, location, and relationships, and a LinkedIn profile and resume aligned with your target role.
Pipeline14 outreach templates, the Them–You–Do message formula, and a 13-tactic hiring-manager research guide. A repeatable way to build conversations around posted and unposted roles, with follow-ups tracked.
PerformBehavioral preparation, story-bank development, and mock interviews. Practice your “tell me about yourself” and show the judgment, scope, and impact expected at the level you want.
ProfitOffer strategy from the first conversations through signing. Use insider information, frame your scope and impact, and negotiate with a clear view of the role and your options.
Flexible supportSessions on your schedule and async support between them, with three months of support. If you haven’t landed a job, David continues helping while you’re doing the work.
Keep everythingEvery resource, template, and guide is yours to keep
Resource guides included
Practical guides for the work between sessions. Every guide and template is yours to keep.
- How to write a 10/10 PM LinkedIn headline
- How to build your target company list
- How to find the hiring manager for a posted job
- 14 messaging templates for warm outreach, cold outreach, follow-ups, and reconnections
- Tools to manage your LinkedIn inbox and follow-ups
- Story frameworks and templates to build your story bank
The math on $6,000.
Move the sliders to your situation. Example numbers to show the shape of the trade, not promises. Your results depend on your market and the work you put in.
Enter a hypothetical annual salary increase, before tax.
Use a hypothetical shorter search, not an expected coaching result.
Use gross monthly salary. This estimate assumes you are not earning during the search.
Illustrative financial upside
$74,000
Annual salary increase plus gross salary from the search months saved.
Engagement fee$6,000
Upside vs. fee12.3×
Illustrative scenario only, before tax. This adds an annual raise to hypothetical salary from a shorter search; it is not a forecast of first-year income or coaching results.
“In 2007 I paid an admissions coach $5,000 for the privilege of paying Kellogg $100,000. Everyone who got in had done the same thing. This $6k buys you a $200k+ role. Your competition for Product Director roles isn’t doing it alone. You shouldn’t be either.”
David’s original coaching analogy. The current engagement is $6,000; a job or salary outcome is not guaranteed.
David SpeigelDirector of Product, 2×
About David
He has been the candidate, the hiring manager, and the coach.
David was Director of Product at Discovery and IPG, and Head of Product at LiveRamp. He has also worked in venture capital, founded a company, and advised founders.
As a hiring manager, he grew two teams to five people and interviewed dozens of product managers. He knows what a hiring team says after the candidate leaves the room because he has been the one saying it.
Today, he works one-on-one with experienced product managers and product leaders across the full search.
He is the networking coach in Alex Rechevskiy's Product Career Accelerator and a coach in Aakash Gupta's Land a PM Job program. He has also been invited to teach at Sidebar and Supra.
300+product managers coached
Director-levelproduct leadership experience
KelloggMBA
Where would David start with you?
Three quick questions. You’ll see which of the 4 Ps is most likely your bottleneck, so you can bring it to the call.
Senior PMs, Group PMs, Directors and product leaders
Pursuing a specific next step in technology
Ready to do the work, with David alongside
Looking for someone to apply to jobs for you
Looking for a guaranteed interview or job
FAQ
Good questions are part of the process.
Anything else, bring it to the free call. That’s what it’s for.
Book a call →It is designed for experienced Senior Product Managers, Group PMs, Directors, and product leaders pursuing a specific next step in technology.
The full engagement costs $6,000. You can pay $2,000 a month for three months.
Expect 10 to 15 hours of coaching, usually concentrated over 2 to 6 weeks. Sessions are booked at your pace. Your support lasts three months; that is separate from the initial coaching schedule.
No. The work is collaborative. David helps you choose the right targets, build the relationships, improve your positioning, prepare for interviews, and make better offer decisions.
No. The engagement gives you a stronger system and better decisions. Results depend on your experience, target market, timing, and execution.
The engagement includes three months of support. If you haven’t landed a job by then, David will continue helping you as long as you’re doing the work. This is not a promise that you will land a job within a particular time frame. You can discuss how the ongoing support works on your discovery call.
You explain the role you want and where the search is stuck. David will tell you what he would focus on first and whether the engagement is a fit.
Bring the search you have. Leave with a clearer next move.
Book a free 45-minute call and tell David what role, team, or transition you are working toward.
- Pick a 45-minute slotWhatever fits your week.
- Explain where the search is stuckThe role you want, and what hasn’t worked yet.
- Hear what David would fix firstAnd whether the engagement is a fit. Useful either way.
David SpeigelFree 45-minute discovery call for product managers pursuing Product Director roles
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“I landed several interviews in less than a month.”★★★★★Idoh · Product Manager, Meta