Product Management Courses

Cohort programs, workshops and self paced courses, with what each one costs and who it is pitched at.

• Exponent Product Management Interview CourseExponentInterview preparation organised by question type, covering product sense and design, product strategy, execution, behavioural rounds and technical rounds. Worked examples run through real prompts such as designing a new feature or improving an existing product, and the platform lets you book mock interviews with other candidates. The free tier includes sample lessons and a small number of mocks each month, which is enough to judge whether the format helps you.Self paced video course with a peer mock interview platformAround 24 hours across 46 lessonsinterviewcareerPriceFree Basic tier, Pro at $12 per month billed annually
• Free Product Management CourseHelloPMA free four session course covering product sense, problem solving and building proof of work, then preparing for product interviews. Case studies run on real products rather than invented ones, and there is a bonus masterclass on writing a product requirements document. A certificate is issued on completion.Self paced sessions with bonus masterclassesAround 12 hoursfoundationsinterviewcareerPriceFreeLevelNo prior product experience required
• Frontline Leader ImpactCenter for Creative LeadershipA six week programme for people managing others for the first time, built around six skills that include self awareness, learning agility and political savvy. Assessments have to be completed before the programme starts, and the results shape what each participant works on. The exercises draw on the leadership research CCL has been running for decades.Live online programme with assessments6 weeks at around 3 hours a weekleadershipteamscareerPrice$1,500 to 1,888 depending on the sessionLevelFrontline and first-time managers
• Google Advanced Data Analytics Professional CertificateCourseraThe follow on to the Google Data Analytics certificate, covering statistics, regression analysis and an introduction to machine learning in Python. It assumes you already understand data types, integrity and cleaning, so it is not a starting point. Product people working near models or running experiments will get most from the statistics and regression material.Self paced online, seven coursesUnder six months at 10 hours a weekdataexperimentationtechnicalPriceCoursera subscription at $49 per month after a 7 day free trialLevelAdvanced, assumes foundational analytics knowledge
• Google Analytics on SkillshopGoogleGoogle's own training platform, where the Analytics Academy courses cover setting up measurement, reading reports and interpreting acquisition and engagement data. The certification assessment needs 80 per cent to pass, with a 24 hour wait before a retake. Worth the afternoon if your product reporting runs through Google Analytics.Self paced online learning with an online assessmentdatametricsPriceFree
• Google Data Analytics Professional CertificateCourseraNine courses taking you from what data is, through cleaning and analysis in spreadsheets and SQL, to visualisation in Tableau and R. For a product manager the payoff is being able to pull and sanity check your own numbers instead of waiting in an analyst's queue. The final course is a case study you can talk about in interviews.Self paced online, nine coursesAround six months at 10 hours a weekdatametricsfoundationsPriceCoursera subscription at $49 per month after a 7 day free trialLevelBeginner, no degree or experience required
• Google Project Management CertificateCourseraSix courses covering project initiation, planning, execution and Agile delivery. Widely used as a first credential by people moving into product and delivery roles.Self paced onlineAround six months at 10 hours a weekfoundationsdeliveryPriceCoursera subscription, around $49 per monthLevelEntry, no prior experience assumed
• Google UX Design Professional CertificateCourseraEight courses running from UX foundations through wireframes and low fidelity prototypes to research, testing and high fidelity design in Figma. Learners finish with three portfolio projects, which is the part that matters for people changing career. Coursera states that most learners spend under $300 in total.Self paced online, eight coursesAround six months at 10 hours a weekuxdesignfoundationsPriceCoursera subscription at $49 per month after a 7 day free trialLevelBeginner, no degree or experience required
• Grokking the Behavioral InterviewEducativeA free course on the behavioural round, built around the STAR technique for structuring answers about past work. It covers researching a company's values so that answers land where they should, and the etiquette differences between phone, video and in person interviews. Useful for candidates who prepare hard for the craft questions and then improvise everything else.Self paced interactive online course36 lessons, around 5 hoursinterviewcareercommunicationPriceFree
• Hello Design ThinkingIDEO UA short introduction to the four phases of design thinking, with observation techniques and quick prototyping exercises you can try the same week. It is the least expensive way to sample how IDEO U teaches before committing to a five week cohort. Teams that keep hearing the term and want a shared starting point are the natural audience.Self paced online course with 90 days of access2 to 5 hoursdesigndiscoveryfoundationsPrice$199
• IBM Product Manager Professional CertificateCourseraA seven course entry route covering product management foundations, stakeholder collaboration, initial strategy and planning, developing and delivering a product, and an introduction to agile and Scrum. It closes with a capstone and a practice exam for the AIPMM Certified Product Manager credential, though the real exam is bought separately. Graduates get an IBM digital badge, and the programme carries academic credit recommendations.Self paced online, seven coursesAround three months at 10 hours a weekfoundationscareerdeliveryPriceFree to enrol, payment only for the certificateLevelBeginner, no prior experience required
• Insights for InnovationIDEO UIDEO's course on the first phase of design thinking, moving from observing people to interviewing them, then to writing insights other people can act on. Assignments run against a challenge you bring, so what you finish with is research on your own problem rather than a case study. It suits anyone who has to justify a product direction from customer evidence.Online cohort course5 weeks at around 4 hours a weekdiscoveryresearchinnovationPrice$899
• Inspiring and Motivating IndividualsCourseraMichigan's course on setting a shared team vision and turning it into goals people will actually pursue. It works through the tension between goals that are measurable and goals that are motivating, then looks at how intrinsic and extrinsic motivators differ across cultures. Free to work through, which makes it a low risk way to test whether formal management study suits you.Self paced online courseAround two weeks at 10 hours a weekleadershipteamsPriceFree to enrol, payment only for the certificateLevelBeginner
• Interaction Design Foundation MembershipInteraction Design FoundationMembership opens a library covering user experience, visual design, design thinking, UX management and AI for designers. Courses are self paced and each ends in a certificate, with the professional tier adding career programmes and master classes. The student tier costs less but runs only two courses at a time. It is one of the few ways to get a broad design curriculum for the price of a streaming subscription.Membership giving access to self paced online courses41 courses, taken in any orderuxdesignresearchPrice$15 per month for students and $22 per month for professionals, billed annuallyLevelAll levels
• Introduction to NegotiationCourseraBarry Nalebuff's course from Yale, built on the theory of the pie as a way of arguing about what a fair split actually is. It covers your BATNA and reservation value, and what to disclose when the other side knows things you do not. Negotiation runs through product work constantly, from vendor contracts to trading roadmap slots with another team.Self paced online courseAround three weeks at 10 hours a weeknegotiationcommunicationleadershipPriceFree to enrol, payment only for the certificateLevelBeginner
• Introduction to User Experience DesignCourseraGeorgia Tech's short tour of the user experience cycle, covering requirement gathering through observation, surveys and interviews, then designing alternatives, prototyping and evaluation. At six hours it works as an evening of orientation for a product manager who has never been taught the vocabulary. The material is free unless you want the certificate.Self paced online courseAround 6 hoursuxfoundationsresearchPriceFree to enrol, payment only for the certificateLevelBeginner, no prior experience required
• Leadership PrinciplesHarvard Business School OnlineA course about your own leadership style, using self assessment and peer feedback to work out what drives you and how you come across to other people. It then moves to the conditions that make a team perform, and to coaching colleagues through feedback they can act on. Harvard pitches it at people stepping up from individual contributor or specialist roles.Online cohort with fixed start dates35 to 40 hours at 7 to 9 hours a weekleadershipcareerteamsPrice$1,949LevelEarly and mid-career professionals moving into leadership
• Leading SAFeScaled AgileThe course behind the SAFe Agilist certification, covering Lean-Agile principles, how an Agile Release Train works, PI Planning and what leadership has to do differently during an adoption. It is the usual first course for managers whose organisation has already chosen SAFe. Certification is renewed each year.Two day course delivered by a SAFe Program Consultant, with a proctored exam2 daysenterpriseleadershipcertificationPriceSet by the training providerLevelLeaders and managers in an organisation adopting SAFe
• Learn SQLCodecademyA five hour interactive introduction covering manipulation, queries, aggregate functions and working across multiple tables. You type every statement yourself rather than watching someone else type it, which is why the syntax sticks. A reasonable first afternoon for anyone who has been reading dashboards without knowing where the numbers come from.Self paced interactive course in the browserAround 5 hoursdatatechnicalfoundationsPriceFreeLevelBeginner, no prerequisites
• Management EssentialsHarvard Business School OnlineA process led view of everyday management, looking at how decisions actually get made, who needs to be in them and where accountability sits. Case material works through running better meetings and diagnosing why a team is underperforming. It suits a manager who already has the title and wants a repeatable method rather than a collection of tips.Online cohort with fixed start dates20 to 25 hours at 5 to 6 hours a weekleadershipteamsPrice$1,949LevelPractising managers