Ramya Vishwanath

Ramya reached a low point mid-search where she felt it was 'basically impossible to get an offer,' struggling with confidence after repeatedly reaching final rounds but not closing.

She developed deep confidence rooted in both mindset work and competence, showing up to interviews with the attitude 'if you don't want me I don't know what to tell you,' which she credits for landing three offers in three days.

Ramya was unsure how to frame her non-traditional path — coming from a social-impact fellowship rather than a conventional PM role — and worried she would appear unfocused or not committed to the PM space.

She was able to clearly position her fellowship experience as intentional career exploration that confirmed her commitment to AIPM, rather than a detour that undermined her candidacy.

Ramya initially approached networking in a transactional, formal way — setting up Zoom calls to ask 'what have you worked on' — which felt unnatural and unproductive.

She shifted to authentic, generous outreach: being honest about her own journey, learning what others were looking for, and proactively sharing relevant job postings. Most of her interviews came from DMing hiring managers directly, and Boost Lingo proactively reached out to her.

Ramya struggled to identify which pieces of her broad PM experience to surface in interviews, and had blind spots around articulating specific success metrics for AI models she had worked on.

She developed a clear storytelling structure to select the most relevant information for each interviewer, and learned to speak to granular success metrics — iterating with coaches each week to close blind spots.

Ramya had done no formal job searching before joining the program, had no structured approach, and was concerned about navigating a more difficult market than the one she had previously interviewed in.

She adopted a focused, intentional strategy — targeting AIPM roles specifically, DMing hiring managers directly rather than relying on applications, and managing her pipeline with a hypothesis-testing mindset after each rejection.

Ramya was concerned about being downleveled given her relatively limited years of experience and her fellowship stint outside a traditional PM role.

She landed a Senior AIPM role at Boost Lingo, maintaining her seniority level and taking on expanded scope — leading AI across five major products and all AI initiatives company-wide.