NOW POSTGRADUATE CERTIFIED

 King’s Product Management Career Accelerator

Become a Product Manager

90% of learners seeking a new role as a Product Manager, secured one within 12 months of starting this Career Accelerator. During this 6-month, online programme, you'll learn:

the end-to-end product management skills to thrive across the product lifecycle: from discovery to design and development

key product management frameworks, methodologies, and a range of industry tools like Miro

in-demand human skills like stakeholder management, effective communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

Key information

Start date

29 January 2024

Learning time 

6 months, online, 10-12 hours per week

(excludes: onboarding, live sessions, and time spent with the  success team)

Support

Includes 1:1 career coaching

Now postgraduate certified

Earn a globally-recognised, credit-bearing qualification* in product management

*Learners who achieve 60% or above during the Career Accelerator in Product Management qualify for the Postgraduate Certificate in Product Management.

Work with industry partners to build a portfolio that shows you have real-world experience 


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It’s difficult to provide graduates with the confidence and skills they need to succeed in complex digital environments, and ensure they will be able to design products that realise the needs of business, government, and society. The King’s Career Accelerator achieves that by connecting university and industry in a way that builds on the many strengths of King’s College London’s Department of Digital Humanities.”

Professor James Smithies, Professor of Digital Humanities at King’s College London

This isn’t your typical online programme.
This is a Career Accelerator.

A career-first learning experience tailored to help you go further, faster.

Gain so much more than just the technical skills

Don't just learn to do the role, learn to be the most valuable member of the team. Develop the technical skills you need to thrive in the role, and the human skills you need to compete both now and in the future.

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Prove yourself in a real-world project

Apply your learning to a real-world product management scenario with a live business case. Work as part of a team to solve a current business challenge, and build a portfolio of evidence in the process.

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Tailor your experience to your goals

Work with a dedicated Career Coach and Success Manager to proactively set your career goals and build the path that gets you where you need and want to go.

Get recognised by King’s College London

Get your new competencies and capabilities recognised when you earn a certificate from King’s on completion of your programme. Learners who achieve 60% or above during this programme qualify for the Postgraduate Certificate in Product Management.

Why register for this Career Accelerator?

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Places are limited

Download the programme brochure to learn more about this Career Accelerator and how you can build on your expertise after completing the programme with a Postgraduate Certificate in Product Management. 

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Programme overview

Course 1: Product management and strategy

  • Gain an understanding of product strategy in relation to organisational strategy, and how to ideate and validate new products and features.
  • Get familiarised with the user through market research in order to assess product-market fit and articulate user problems.
  • Conduct iterative user research to validate design ideas and inform product design.
  • Master effective written and verbal communication in different contexts (office and remote) and with different stakeholders.

Course 2: Product design and development

  • Further build on your product design knowledge, including design thinking, user experience design (UX) and interaction design principles to ensure a product is feasible and usable.
  • Learn the principles of Agile product development, and how to prioritise tasks to manage product backlog.
  • Learn how to work with multi-disciplinary teams, with a specific focus on collaborating with designers and engineers to achieve product success.
  • Gain crucial foundational product design skills, such as the application of various testing and validation methods and tools, and how to manage advanced, technical product development.

Course 3: Launching a product to market

  • Gain the skills to design an effective go-to-market strategy, as well as planning the activities involved in a product launch.
  • Learn product growth principles, including growth hacking and principles of product-led growth.
  • Learn to identify appropriate product metrics and success criteria to continuously improve the product and promote product and business success.

Project-based assessments and the Employer Project

As a key component of your learning journey, the Employer Project brings together all the skills you've gained from the first three project-based courses. This project is designed in collaboration with our industry partners, like DocuSign and SO-SURE, to give you first-hand experience in addressing real-world product challenges using the knowledge and skills you've learned.

During these six weeks, every deliverable, every decision you make, mirrors the professional environment, accelerating your practical skills and portfolio development.

The Employer Project is more than just a project; it's a powerful springboard into the product management industry, offering an experience comparable to being on the job.

 

Tools:

Working with FourthRev and King's College London as part of the Employer Project has been valuable to us as an organisation. We were fortunate to work closely with an extremely talented cohort, benefitting from the insights and ideas they shared.”

John Kostovski, Product Manager - Identify, DocuSign

What alumni think of our programmes

“I saw this programme as an investment in my career. It’s a stepping stone to a future role that will put me on a higher salary.”

Adam Stead

“It’s exciting to read something one week, and then literally the next week, I am applying it, whether it’s with the activities or with my actual work.”

Kelli Wingfield

“There are elements of theory in the programme, and each one goes directly into a piece of work that eventually goes into a real-life, practical thing that you can show when applying for roles.”

Aoife Duggan

Soumya

"The programme has given me practical tools that I can pick up and straight away implement in my current role."

Soumya Kaushik

“I’ll be straightforward about it: I do believe the programme can help you get a better paid job. I do believe that because the Career Accelerator helped me to change jobs.”

Gåbriela Romanïni

“I saw this programme as an investment in my career. It’s a stepping stone to a future role that will put me on a higher salary.”

Adam Stead

“It’s exciting to read something one week, and then literally the next week, I am applying it, whether it’s with the activities or with my actual work.”

Kelli Wingfield

“There are elements of theory in the programme, and each one goes directly into a piece of work that eventually goes into a real-life, practical thing that you can show when applying for roles.”

Aoife Duggan

"The programme has given me practical tools that I can pick up and straight away implement in my current role."

Soumya Kaushik

“I’ll be straightforward about it: I do believe the programme can help you get a better paid job. I do believe that because the Career Accelerator helped me to change jobs.”

Gåbriela Romanïni

Who you'll learn from

This Career Accelerator brings together academic and industry perspectives to design, build and deliver a curriculum that represents the best of both worlds.

Prof James Smithies

Professor of Digital Humanities King’s College London

Dr Mark Hedges

Reader in Cultural Informatics at the Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London

Janna Bastow

Janna Bastow

CEO of ProdPad and Co-founder of Mind the Product

Marc Abraham

Group Product Manager at Intercom

Randeep Sidhu

Chief Product Officer at Reliance Health

Nick Jemetta

Product Expert and Coach at Stories Matter

Pippa Topp

Product Leader, Consultant & Coach

Simon Elder

Post-graduate student (King’s College London) & Principal Product Lead

We’ll coach you to success

Career coaching is an integral part of the Career Accelerator programme. Coaches work with you in regular 1:1 sessions to identify and develop the employability traits and personal skills needed to thrive at every stage of your career.

My Career Coach was instrumental in giving me the confidence to go ahead and use my new skills to make a difference at work.”

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After the programme you’ll get access to:

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In-person meet-ups and Career Accelerator alumni events.

A 90-day success plan, which helps you hit your job goals in those critical months after the program meme.

Ongoing career coaching services.

The FourthRev Community which has networking and industry events.

Get the brochure

Complete the form below and receive more information on this Career Accelerator. You will be redirected to the programme brochure on submission.

FAQ

How much does this programme cost?

The tuition fee for this programme is £6,000 including VAT. Ask your Enrolment Advisor about Edaid and our other flexible payment plans.

Why choose a Career Accelerator?

Career accelerators deliver the technical skills needed to perform in real-world roles, the understanding necessary to translate those abilities into meaningful value, the human skills crucial for gaining and retaining jobs, and the reflective capabilities essential for ongoing growth.

Do I need to attend classes at certain times?

The majority of learning requirements can be completed asynchronously, in your own time. While attendance is strongly recommended for online webinar sessions and masterclasses, recordings will be made available at the conclusion of each session.

Live classes run mid week and outside of standard working hours. However, there is a weekly class that is timezone-friendly for the UK and South East Asia.

How is the programme delivered?

The programme is delivered entirely online through a virtual learning environment which is accessible from your personal computer or smartphone. Your personal Success Manager will be available to offer support and guide you through your learning journey.

What are the entry requirements?

Entry Requirements:

  • An academic transcript (a minimum of an undergraduate degree)
  • A 1-2 page CV demonstrating no less than 2 years of work experience, a supporting letter from your employer (if available)
  • If you don’t meet any of the above criteria, you can book a call with an Enrolment Advisor for further discussion and consideration.

Supporting documents required:

  • A 500-word personal statement answering a series of questions provided by an Enrolment Advisor
  • A copy of your proof of identity in the form of a passport/drivers license or birth certificate
  • Language proficiency test results (if you haven’t completed university study in English)

What is the role of the industry and employer partners?

These partners add industry experience to coursework development, share tech expertise and play a direct role in the portfolio project design. Through their insight into the ever-changing landscape in the digital economy, they ensure students develop skills aligned to workplace demand, offer exposure to employer networks and open up access to job opportunities.

Is your business looking to upskill your team?

Connect with an advisor about the benefits of this programme for your business.