If you are working for a company that has product managers, is there an opportunity for you to shadow a product manager or be assigned to help the Product team with some projects?
You could search for junior product manager roles (which you could be doing now). Jr. product roles usually require a year or two of experience.
You could apply for product-related roles at startups (including startups looking for part-time employees willing to work for equity, assuming you have a job that pays your bills and you have time each week that you could work for the startup) . The majority of startups won't hire untrained product people (product roles in startups are critical and most startups need product peeps who can hit the ground running) but some early startups who don't have money can be convinced to bring on less experienced product people.
Side Note:
Please get training There are plenty of options for paid and free training (udemy, youtube, product focused educational organizations like pragmatic and others), and getting actual product training will help you secure your first product job. Your SEO manager skills will align closely to Product skills but Product is a separate role that has plenty of unique skills and job tasks that we do :)
Last comment. You could find a product mentor, it's always good to have a mentor guide you through your career.
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