Principal Product Manager and AI Product Manager

About

Balaji helps you master Product interviews so you no longer depend on “all the stars aligning.” Every day becomes a good interview day. Balaji was most recently a Staff Product Manager at Pinterest, with prior roles at Twitter/X, Shopify, and Microsoft. After Elon Musk acquired Twitter, he led Elon’s direct product initiatives. He has received offers from Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Reddit, Adobe, Dropbox, Pure Storage, Walmart, and others. He moved from Software Engineer to Product Manager and grew from PM1 through Senior PM and Staff/Principal PM to Director of Product. He loves helping hardworking candidates become great PMs, so acing interviews follows naturally. Working with Balaji, you get: 1. First-principles thinking: He breaks problems into fundamental truths and builds up from there, in any domain. 2. Proven methods: He knows what FAANGMULA interviewers look for. He has gone through the process himself and earned offers at multiple seniority levels. 3. A personalized approach: Your strengths, growth areas, and thinking are unique. Instead of a “framework on rails,” he helps your answers stand out from competing candidates. 4. Skill-building over “interview cracking”: The goal is to make you a strong product thinker, not someone who superficially cracks interviews. Balaji holds a BS in Computer Science (Honors) from the University of Kansas and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He lives in San Francisco.