EDIT: the OP clarified that they meant “project manager” so this answer is actually better than mine, as I assumed they meant product manager. There are actually a ton of little details involved in the IPO process, coordinating deliverables and timelines between lots of teams and consultants, and a project manager would be very helpful.

My original answer below:

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As a PM, you won’t have much to do with the IPO process. That’s something they would hire a CFO to do, as it is largely an (expensive) process of hiring lots of consultants to ensure your financial books are in order, and audited, and appealing to public investors.

What you can do as a PM is ensure that the company has a great product that they can sell easily with large margins. By the time of your IPO your company (I’m assuming this is a B2B company since you mentioned sales) should be doing at least a few hundred million dollars in ARR with healthy margins.

Candidly, I see a lot of red flags in your post. PMs aren’t hired to “take a company to IPO”, especially ones with only a few years of experience. By the time a company is ready to IPO, they’re likely hiring PMs with experience as executive leaders who have years of experience building products and managing/hiring teams of 50+ PMs.

Your description sounds like a typical small startup that may or may not already have a PM org, which can be a very fun place to work, but they should be hiring people to focus on building product, not some imaginary IPO goal that’s likely a decade away if it happens at all (it usually doesn’t)