Interview Kickstart is a premier career transformation platform turbocharging tech careers through AI upskilling.
Founded in 2014 in Santa Clara by Soham Mehta, ex-Box Engineering Leader, and Ryan Valles, a transformative P&L leader and former CEO with a track record of scaling ventures, Interview Kickstart’s vision is to help every tech professional thrive in today’s fast-evolving tech industry.
With 40+ domain-specific courses—from foundational Machine Learning and Generative AI to Agentic AI, System Design, and DSA—Interview Kickstart equips engineers, PMs, data professionals, and tech leaders to accelerate their careers. Its 600+ instructors—industry practitioners, hiring managers, and senior engineers from FAANG+ companies—bring real-world insight and cutting-edge expertise into every classroom.
Beyond upskilling, Interview Kickstart offers end-to-end career support. Personalized mock interviews, resume and LinkedIn branding, career coaching, salary negotiation guidance, and performance-based job referrals ensure that your AI upskilling translates into real career breakthroughs. Over 25,000 professionals have already advanced their careers through Interview Kickstart.
Recognized by TIME x Statista and GSV 150 as a top EdTech company, Interview Kickstart is the go-to platform for tech professionals looking to future-proof their careers in the age of AI.
Interviews can be hard. And when it comes to the top tech companies like Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc., they can be downright brutal. Most candidates don’t make it simply because they don’t prepare well enough. IK helps candidates nail the toughest tech interviews. At IK, current and former hiring managers at these top companies take candidates through an intense prep course to prepare them to crack the toughest Technical interviews. You could think of us as ‘the everything store’ for career transitions and interview skill development.
How do we do that, you ask?- We have a structured way of helping folks crack interviews-
- Career accelerator course
- End-to-end courses + platform
- More than 100+ instructors from Google, FB, Amazon, Netflix, Dropbox, and other top Silicon Valley companies.
- And, to date, we have trained 10000+ engineers!
- What’s more exciting is that we are completely remote and hiring the best people we can find regardless of geo.
Sounds interesting? Then here’s some more information about the role
Position OverviewWe are looking for a top-notch Product Manager to come join our growing team at IK to lead our product development initiatives especially to scale our Growth Team
Requirements
- You have 6 - 9 years of Product Management experience with extensive experience in consumer internet space as a Product Manager.
- You love the buzz of a highly productive and fast-moving team.
- You’ve had experience developing and managing the product life cycle and GTM of at least 3 to 4 consumer internet, mobile first products.
- You have your ear to the ground on what competitors are doing, what our customers are saying and always on a hunt for growth hacking the distribution with partnerships or otherwise.
- You work closely with Design and the tech team to build simple but elegant products
- You integrate usability studies, market analysis and research into product requirements and your user stories and personas.
- You are eager to grow quickly, hustle, and always prioritize customer experience above all.
What would excite us?
- Previous startup experience or experience being part of early teams.
- You are highly metrics-driven and love defining and measuring the success factors of products.
- You are a whiz at communicating with stakeholders, with users and with business partners and are deft at managing expectations.
- You love simplicity - in design, in user stories and in integrations.
- You love working with incredibly smart engineers.
- You are good at working with cross-functional teams
- You are an excellent problem solver
What would excite you?
- Complete ownership
- Experiment, fail and learn.
- High pedigree, high calibre team.
- Contribute to every area of our business. Have a real impact on your work
- Top-of-the-line compensation.
Top Skills
What We Do
Interview Kickstart is the leading global platform for Technical Interview Preparation.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, our mission is to work with Software Engineers to help them transition into their dream jobs at top-tier companies. Students from our program routinely get offers from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Apple, LinkedIn, Uber, and other top organizations after completing our program.
The following set of core beliefs drives Interview Kickstart:
Successful interview prep cannot be a spit and polish job. The only way to become part of a strong technical team is to elevate your craft to that level, i.e., technical interviews cannot be ‘hacked’. To nail them, one must invest time in becoming a better engineer.
It only makes sense to learn from engineers who have made the cut, i.e., one needs to prepare by learning from engineers who are currently already working and hiring at Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other top companies.
One needs a methodology that caters to a superior technical curriculum, retention, and sustained motivation, i.e., structured interview preparation is the only way to career up-leveling.
Interview Kickstart’s team of pedigreed instructors comprises hiring managers and tech leads from FAANG and other top Silicon Valley companies. The areas we focus on include Algorithms, Data Structures, System Designs, and Career Skills.
Our proprietary methodology covers live classes, mock interviews, timed tests, individual coaching sessions, resume reviews, career strategy, referrals, and much more.
Get offers ranging up to $933,000. Join over 5,500+ engineers who have successfully taken our program.
Interview Kickstart’s cost varies as we offer customized courses to meet the differing needs of students. The best way to know about Interview Kickstart cost is to sign-up for our pre-enrolment webinar: https://www.interviewkickstart.com
