6 months, part-time and fully online
Requires 12-15 hours per week
Includes 1:1 career coaching
"I have found the career coaching to be a unique and game-changing addition to the programme. It has helped me to find a job even before completing the course!"
Diego Dalmonte
Career Accelerator graduate
Start date: 22 April
Still accepting late registrations
Learning time
6 months, online, 12-15 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
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, Former Professor of Digital Humanities at King’s College London
Course 1: Product management and strategy
- Critically analyse the various roles and stakeholders within the product development environment and their relationship to product strategy and development.
- Evaluate organisational strategy and vision, and their relationship to product strategy and success.
- Conduct exploratory market research and user research to validate product hypotheses and inform competitor analyses.
- Use user segmentation, personas and problem statements to inform user-centric product design, development and ongoing product improvement decision-making.
- Identify and propose validated solutions to user problems to capitalise on opportunities and propose sustainable product strategy based on specific organisational contexts.
- Adopt tailored communication strategies to manage varying stakeholders, requirements and product contexts.
Course 2: Product design and development
- Create an Agile product roadmap and user story map that informs product strategy and iteration throughout the product design and development phases.
- Apply the basic principles of UX design to create user-centric products that align with the product vision.
- Select and use various testing methods to validate product design decisions and respond iteratively to user feedback.
- Use prioritisation techniques to make strategic product decisions and manage constraints.
Course 3: Launching a product to market
- Prepare an effective go-to-market strategy to execute a successful and Agile product launch.
- Apply product-led growth principles to manage sustainable and ethical product growth.
- Identify appropriate product metrics and success criteria to continuously improve the product and promote product and organisational 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
“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
Dr Mark Hedges
Reader in Cultural Informatics the Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London
Prof James Smithies
Former Professor of Digital Humanities King’s College London
Janna Bastow
CEO of ProdPad and Co-founder of Mind the Product
Marc Abraham
Group Product Manager Intercom
Randeep Sidhu
Chief Product Officer 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
My Career Coach was instrumental in giving me the confidence to go ahead and use my new skills to make a difference at work.”
Andreas
