Course Content (6 hours live class):Learn the Standards of Executive Performance- How to know where you stand- How to break out of being stuck- How to develop and demonstrate executive presence- How to gain executive visibility- How to engage executive sponsors- How the leaders above you are evaluated and thus how you can help them- How to get scope, including during a flat or negative growth environment- How to overcome obstacles and poor managers- How to become a scaled deep leader, change agent, and trusted decision maker- How to manage your team to execute with little oversight, take calculated risks, and deliver results- How to think strategically and be seen as a influential leader who enhances the whole company Learn How to Manage the Executive Promotion Process- How to position yourself for promotion- How executives assess promotion readiness- Overcoming blocks to promotion- How to deal with a manager who gives little feedback- How to manage peers and sponsors- How to win skip level support- How to run the document creation process Scope, team size, and consistent high-impact results are important...But are not enough. I will teach you specific actionable steps on how to prioritize the things that matter to executives. Bonus material:- Video recording of all live sessions available via Maven platform- Executive Presence handout by Mariposa Leadership (one of our recommended coaching options)- Recommended coach list- Class slides as a PDF- Slack group to engage other members- Invitation to join private LinkedIn Alumni Group- 20% off all career development on-demand courses Advice is based on Ethan's personal promotion experience from Amazon Senior Manager to Director to Vice President and diverse insights from his network of executives, coaches, venture capitalists, army officers, and startup founders. Proven ROI for promotions and internal/external hires: Ethan promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal, and of his former reports 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside of Amazon. More than 350 senior managers and leaders worldwide have taken this course (including engineering managers, senior product managers, general managers, head of partnerships and business development, design leaders, and directors/VPs who have also found the course applicable to their careers). Build your network and stay connected to course members via our private Course Alumni Group. Alumni from: Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Netflix, Airbnb, Uber, Stripe, Shopify, Flexport, Oracle, Salesforce, Red Hat, Affirm, eBay, Expedia, Zillow, Groundspeed, Snapchat, TikTok, Unity, LinkedIn, Disney, McKinsey &amp; Company, Vimeo, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Kohl's, Capital One, Warner Bros, Discord, IBM, Vimeo, Waymo, and more startups &amp; large companies all over the world. Titles of course members range from Manager/Senior/Group/Principal to Director/VP/SVP/CPO. Student testimonials:- "Ethan unveils what every senior manager wants to know about what happens behind the scenes of an executive promotion, and how to position yourself as the best choice. Extremely insightful, transparent, honest, and resourceful. The value I got out of this program is 20x its cost." — Engineering Manager, Netflix - "Ethan delivers on his brand of truthful and pragmatic career advice that's brought to life with real anecdotes from his career." — Senior Manager, Airbnb - "Getting promoted into senior leadership at a big tech company is as much art, as science. Ethan offers practical and pragmatic advice, delivered with empathy while expecting accountability. His coaching on how to successfully escalate an issue to executive leadership by turning a problem into a business opportunity was a game changer for me." — Principal Technical Program Manager, Amazon/Twitch - "Ethan shares his approach based on his experience as an Amazon VP that you can measure yourself against. You can have a personal network to get this information. (I don't.) Or you can get it directly from this beautifully designed training. I found Ethan's advice extremely valuable." — Director of Engineering, On &amp; Author “Drawn to Leadership” - "Incredible straight talk without embellishment that is really insightful." — Senior Development Manager, Shopify - "The straight truth in this course was refreshing and the real-life stories from an Executive like Ethan was like getting batting advice from Mike Trout." — Senior Manager, Fortune 100 Company

Level Up from Senior Manager to Executive

Provide a brief description for each module as a way to sell the value of what students will be learning throughout the course.

First Module

Second Module

Third Module

Course syllabus

<ul><li>Lecture: What Your Personal, Team, and Company Level Performance must be to earn a promotion.</li><li>Dive Deep: How to know where you stand.</li><li>Dive Deep: How to break out of being stuck.</li><li>Interactive Discussion.</li></ul> Recording will be available.

Saturday, December 9 - Personal, Team, & Company Level Executive Performance

<ul><li>Lecture: How to manage the executive promotion process.</li><li>Dive Deep: How to develop executive presence.</li><li>Dive Deep: How to get executive sponsors.</li><li>Dive Deep: Getting the scope you need.</li><li>Dive Deep: Overcoming blocks to promotion.</li><li>Interactive Discussion.</li></ul> Recording will be available.

Sunday, December 10 - Managing the Promotion Process to Win

Course schedule

Ambitious Senior Managers from all disciplines at startups and large companies who want to become true executives.

Those managing large groups, managers of managers, including Amazon and Google L7/L8, Meta M2, and Microsoft 66/67.

Also applicable to Senior Individual Contributors (ICs - Principal at Amazon) and Managers of 2-5 reports.

Who is this course for

What you will get out of this course

We will dive deep into specific tactics on how to get promoted, what great looks like, the executive bar, how to build a reputation that signals you are an executive, how senior executives assess promotion readiness, and how to drive team and company-wide impact.

How to get promoted to Executive

Learn how to stand out from your peers with specific tactics on how to better position and advocate for yourself, how to gain senior executive sponsorship, and how to influence the promotion approval meeting.

How to manage your promotion process

Course content is developed by Ethan's personal promotion experience from Senior Manager to Director to Vice President at Amazon along with input from Ethan's wide network of executives, coaches, VCs, army officers, and startup founders. You will get specific actionable advice.

Optimized actionable advice for Senior Managers who want to get promoted

Hear Ethan's break through experience first hand and learn from the specific actions Ethan took with his direct reports to help them break through to executive.

Learn from Ethan's personal stories (not theory)

Alumni from: Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Netflix, Airbnb, Uber, Stripe, Shopify, Flexport, Oracle, Salesforce, Red Hat, Affirm, eBay, Expedia, Zillow, Groundspeed, Snapchat, TikTok, Unity, LinkedIn, Disney, McKinsey &amp; Company, Vimeo, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, and more.

You will be in great company

Learn actionable specific standards by which executives are selected and how to manage your promotion process to show you meet them. 

Ethan Evans

Retired Amazon Vice President; now Coaching Leaders to become True Executives

Stuck at Senior Manager - How to Break Through to Executive: Cohort 1

Stuck at Senior Manager - How to Break Through to Executive: Cohort 2

Taken by 205 students to date, taught by Dr. Marily Nika alongside 5 carefully curated AI leaders working for Big Tech companies such as Google, Meta, Salesforce, Elastic &amp; Amazon, this 12-week, cohort-based intensive and immersive bootcamp is designed to equip product managers with specialized AI skills and get them ready to get hired and have impact. This program offers a comprehensive package comprising 20 hours of live content, 3 hours of personalized coaching (which optionally covers resume and LinkedIn profile preparation). Moreover, it includes 6 practical hands-on exercises encompassing both technical and strategic aspects. To cap it off, participants will engage in a stimulating Capstone project for their own companies, where they can apply their newly acquired AI PM skills to harness AI technologies for developing cutting-edge products for testing purposes. Students that will successfully complete this Program will receive a certificate of AI Product Management readiness.﻿Additionally, students will have the opportunity to take part in a pitch competition, which will be graced by professionals from prominent venture capital firms. If you would rather not invest in a 12-week program, you can check out Marily's 3-week AI PM 101 course or Advanced AI PM course (total of 600 students).

“All Product Managers will be AI Product Managers in the future” - Marily Nika
 

<ul><li>AI/ML &amp; Generative AI basics</li><li>AI Product Development lifecycle</li><li>AI Product applications</li><li>Intro to algorithms, data collection, model training</li><li>AI PM Craft (strategic thinking, making trade-offs, hypothesis testing)</li><li>Metrics in AI PM</li><li>OKRs and Goals in AI PM</li><li>MLOps</li></ul>

AI PM 101 course

<ul><li>Model training using Google colab (code provided)</li><li>Leadership training</li><li>Architecture</li><li>Productionization</li><li>Responsible AI</li><li>4 guest product leaders</li></ul>

Advanced AI PM 

<ul><li>1-1 Coaching by AI PM Leaders</li><li>Resume &amp; LinkedIn creation</li><li>Access to exclusive jobs board &amp; recruitment specialists</li></ul>

Personal development

<ul><li>3 weeks of hands-on, structured work</li><li>Pitch to a forum of VCs</li></ul>

Capstone Project

If your events are recurring and at the same time, it might be easiest to use a single line item to communicate your course schedule to students

Tuesdays & Thursdays

Feel free to type out dates as your title as a way to communicate information about specific live sessions or other events.

May 7, 2022

Schedule items can also be used to convey commitments outside of specific time slots (like weekly projects or daily office hours).

Weekly projects

Seasoned Product Leaders Interested in pivoting to AI Product Management in their companies &amp; elsewhere

Aspiring AI Product ManagersWith or without tech experience that want to dive deep into all things AI &amp; Product

Software EngineersInterested in understanding how to productionize AI

What you’ll get out of this course

You will start off by joining the <a href="https://maven.com/marily-nika/technical-product-management" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Introduction to AI PM course</a><ul><li>6 live sessions with Marily, 1 offline exercise, access to the community</li><li>Personalized coaching call to create your personalized plan</li></ul>

Phase 1: Introduction to AI PM  (3 weeks)

<ul><li>You will join Marily's <a href="https://maven.com/marily-nika/advanced-ai-product-management/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Advanced AI Product Management course</a></li><li>6 live sessions with Marily &amp; guests</li><li>3 offline coding/strategy exercises</li><li>We will revamp your resume &amp; LinkedIn profiles</li></ul>

Phase 2: Diving Deeper (3 weeks)

<ul><li>Bring your AI product idea or your company's AI product challenge</li><li>Work on this project in a structured, supervised way by FAANG AI PMs</li><li>(optional) Pitch your idea to a group of curated VCs</li></ul>

Phase 3: Capstone Project (3 weeks)

<ul><li>Interview Training Workshop</li><li>Mock interview practice</li><li>Access to private job &amp; recruiter pool&nbsp;</li></ul>

Phase 4: Getting ready for interviews / getting the job (1 week)

<ul><li>Get the AI Product Academy's official 'Certificate of AI PM Readiness'</li></ul>

Phase 5: Get certified

This 12 week program aims to cultivate a new generation of AI product leaders who can drive innovation in the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem

Dr. Marily Nika

AI Product Lead @ Meta, ex-Google, TED AI Speaker, Harvard Business School

Cohort 2

Cohort 3

Whether you build a design system for your product or just for practice. You'll become an expert in Figma's most advanced features and workflows. More than a live workshop! 💪 Bite-sized independent projects📺 Demo videos &amp; resources👋 Live office hours👯‍♀️ Community chat &amp; support

Gain the skills & confidence to build a design system in Figma.

Learn about different Figma workflows and determine which is best for you. Then set up your file(s) with styles and icons.

Set up your design system workflow and Figma file(s)

Create a system of primitive and semantic variables (from config23) to improve the design process and developer handoff.

Tokenize your colors and numbers with Variables 

Build multiple responsive component sets to master the concepts of auto layout, components, variants, and properties.

Introduction to components & responsive design

Build multiple complex component sets that are highly responsive, dynamic, and stateful. Giving you a deep understanding of how and when to use auto layout, components, variants, and properties.

Advanced components & responsive design

Build multiple components of your choosing. Getting feedback from your peers and Molly on the best approach. Then learn how to start designing and collaborating with your system.

Free build & team collaboration

1-2 modules per week with lessons walking you through the process of building a full design system in Figma. Each one with recorded demo videos &amp; additional resources to help you complete the next project.

Self-paced lessons

Build a full design system by completing a series of bite-sized independent projects. For example, "Create scalable color styles" and "Build a button component set using auto layout, variants, and properties".

Bite-sized projects

Two 1hr live Q&amp;A calls with Molly and the rest of the cohort to answer questions and dive deeper into that week's projects.🕓 Tuesdays @ 4pm PST🕘 Thursdays @ 8am PST

Q&A with Molly

Course Schedule

Intermediate designers ready to build their first design system or start contributing to an existing one.

Design teams looking to take their design system to the next level or transition from another tool.

Non-designers and career switchers who want to turbo boost their Figma skills and gain a deeper understanding of design systems.

Who I made this course for

Key outcomes

By the end of this bootcamp you will have built an entire design system in Figma. One with expertly designed styles, components, and workflows that are ready for anything!

Figma Design System!

Learn exactly when and how to use Figma's most advanced features like variables (NEW), auto layout, variants, and properties.

Master advanced Figma features

Learn the benefits of using different Figma workflows and how they can best serve your product &amp; team.

Find a workflow that suits your needs

Learn and build alongside a cohort of fellow designers. Sharing feedback, holding each other accountable, and forming lasting relationships.

Connect with other designers

5-week Bootcamp to build a design system & become a Figma expert. 

Molly Hellmuth

Creator of UI Prep

Cohort 4

Cohort 5

Course OutcomesCreate an influence plan by understanding human psychology, organizational dynamics and political styles.Improve core interpersonal skills to amplify your influence.Develop Emotional Intelligence and Positive Intelligence to ensure great outcomes in high stakes situations. Course SyllabusHow to embrace a high integrity savvy influence modelHow to account for organizational dynamics and power structuresHow to leverage human psychology to change mindsHow to use processes to build alignment and deep commitmentHow to use principled decision frameworks to drive complex tradeoffsHow to improve core interpersonal skillsHow to strengthen Emotional Intelligence and Positive IntelligenceBuild a custom plan to achieve your influence outcomes and grow your skills FormatBlend of principles/frameworks combined with application to your scenarios in breakout groupsIn-class &amp; take home exercises to practice interpersonal skillsWorksheets &amp; exercises to develop emotional intelligence &amp; positive intelligenceTemplates to develop organization understanding and improve relationshipsTemplates for influence strategy Your PeersProduct Managers, Engineers, Designers, Data Scientists, User Researchers from 50+ companies including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Adobe, Square, Lyft, Uber, PayPal, Instacart, Grammarly, Discord have taken this course and found it life changing.

Develop an actionable strategy to become an influential leader.

Understanding Political Styles

Embracing Influence Without Authority Mindset

Understanding Organizational Dynamics and Incentives

Building Relationships and Reputation

Understanding Decision Complexity

Choose the Right Influence Models and Processes

Understand the Human Communication Model

Improve Interpersonal Communication Skills

Strengthen Emotional Intelligence

Cultivate Positive Intelligence

Integrate into an influence strategy and skills growth plan

11:00am - 7:00pm Eastern TimeRecording will be available.

Saturday, Dec 9

Sunday, Dec 10

This is an&nbsp;intensive weekend-only seminar&nbsp;for folks with busy calendars during the weekdays. The sessions will be recorded if you want to re-watch them.

Optimized for busy schedules. Recorded videos & templates to use now or future.

Strong Product thinkers Product Manager - Designer - Engineer - User Researcher - Data Scientist who want to increase their influence.

People who encountered career obstacles as a result of not having an extensive influence skills toolkit.

People who feel others with similar hard skills are rising faster and want a roadmap to improving their influence / soft skills.

Who is this course for:

Understand the differences between political styles ranging from cynic to machiavellian to leader. Embrace the mindset for Influence Without Authority to operate in a high integrity savvy manner.

How to embrace a high integrity savvy influence model

Learn to build an influence map of your organization, identify incentive structures for individual people &amp; teams, and develop a plan that accounts for these diverse needs.

How to account for organizational dynamics and power structures

Understand how people form opinions, the shortcuts the human mind takes in decision making, the need for humans to be right and proven processes for changing minds.

How to leverage human psychology to change minds

Learn to develop a plan that includes the right mix of 1:1s, small &amp; large group meetings, async feedback on documents, and review prep check-ins with leads to drive strong outcomes.

How to use processes to build alignment and deep commitment

Develop the right mindset, leverage key decision frameworks and include balanced advocacy to influence individuals, small groups and large organizations.

How to use principled decision frameworks to drive complex tradeoffs

Practical exercises to build trustful relationships, listen deeply, speak precisely, write collaboratively and negotiate effectively.

How to improve core interpersonal skills

Toolkit to manage your emotions and navigate other people's negative emotions to produce positive outcomes. Toolkit to manage your psychology, stay in the game and produce outstanding results.

How to strengthen Emotional Intelligence and Positive Intelligence

Leave the course with an operational plan to achieve your influence outcomes (big rocks, small pebbles and daily sand) and a growth plan for your influence skills.

Build a custom plan to achieve your influence outcomes and grow your skills

Principles, processes, skills and frameworks to influence people, have more impact and grow in your career.

Satish Mummareddy

Cohort 6

Go way beyond just tinkering with ChatGPT and integrate custom AI workflows into your organization through: - Evergreen prompt engineering techniques for specific use cases, including custom AI app creation. - Principles and specific instructions for AI workflow automation and project management. - Preventing hallucinations with grounded models, and build your own AI chatbot with custom data. - Actually building AI prototypes. - Immersing in cutting-edge research on the present and near future of AI. - Step-by-step walkthroughs of applications of generative AI for content creation, operations, and research. Along with live class sessions, the course includes 1:1 coaching sessions and flexible office hours to ensure each student gets deeply personalized support for their generative AI applications they want to build out. We've been building generative AI solutions for B2B clients for years. This class distills our experience for you to apply this to your work and organization.

Harness the full power of AI

<ul><li>Predict the developments in the generative AI landscape over the next 1 to 3 years.</li><li>Discover the current state-of-the-art models, emerging methodologies, and their business applications.</li><li>Hands-on focus: test applications of advanced prompting (image + text). Projects include prompt mining, image styling and app wireframing.</li></ul>

Prompt engineering and the generative AI landscape

<ul><li>Get familiar with the generative AI infrastructure and the emerging software paradigms.</li><li>Gain insight into the role of data in content generation.</li><li>Explore LUIs and LUX - frontier of AI-user interactions.</li><li>Identify potential niches for generative AI app development.</li><li>Hands-on focus: Build a generative AI app.</li></ul>

Building a generative AI app prototype

<ul><li>Master strategy for selecting a model for your needs.</li><li>Employ the generative AI implementation cycle - explore, adjust, experiment, repeat.</li><li>Gain insight into utilizing AI plugins.</li><li>Build security into AI applications.</li><li>Hands on focus: Create a generative AI tool responding to your personalized data + automate a content generator with other software. </li></ul>

Combining generative AI with outside data and tools.

Live lecture on Tuesdays, prototyping sessions on Thursdays. ***NOTE: February cohort will run on Wednesdays and Fridays, same time

Tuesday & Thursday

Optional office hours where you can ask questions and receive personal guidance on developing your AI applications. ***NOTE: February cohort will run on Wednesdays and Fridays, same time

Projects will be offered every week to master your skills in AI. You will get to shape the project deliverable. Lecturers will be available by email and during office hours throughout the week for any questions.

Product managers who needs to understand how AI capabilities can better serve your customers and business objectives.

Leaders who needs to understand the cutting edge to guide strategy and team effectiveness.

Creatives hoping to protect your work from redundancy and explore new frontiers for content creation.

Clear, actionable processes for analyzing AI use cases and developing strategy towards concrete deliverables.

Solve real problems with AI

We will be your personal innovation and prototyping concierge as you create real AI apps, with no past coding experience required.

Build real AI prototypes

You'll leave with a huge toolkit of new capabilities and targeted resources you can start using immediately, with proof that you can leverage them.

Create a truly unique innovation portfolio

Master an evergreen method for identifying reliable information in a noisy, crowded field to build and future-proof your AI strategy.

Learn hype-proof research techniques

Gain access to step-by-step instructions, videos, AI models and decision-making worksheets to continue growing your expertise long after the end of the course.

Access a treasure trove of resources

Integrate AI into your work and business through hands-on prototyping and cutting-edge research (no coding required)

Cohort 9

Jeremy Kirshbaum

Lev Gorelov

Cohort 8

Cohort 10

*This is a part of the AI PM Bootcamp main course (https://maven.com/marily-nika/ai-pm-bootcamp) Taken by over 700 students, this is a popular 3-week-long hands-on interactive course for Aspiring AI Product Managers, that help you understand how to bring AI products to life with 0 coding experience at your dream tech company.Plus, get a certificate of completion. This course is for beginners with or without coding skills and with or without any PM experience. The follow-on to this course is the Advanced AI Product Management course for people that already took this one and/or for Senior folks interested in a technical deep dive and to pivot to AI PM:https://maven.com/marily-nika/advanced-ai-product-management/. If you get both courses you or if you upgrade to the AI PM Bootcamp get a special discount for both. Email hello@aiproduct.academy.

The Art of AI Product Management

AI PM fundamentals and key technical concepts

AI Product Development Lifecycle deep dive

From idea generation to AI MVP & long term strategic roadmap

Tools and methodologies for AI PMs

Effective cross-functional collaboration & strategies behind successful AI Products with real world examples

Interview Training

Course Structure

Aspiring Product Managers looking to understand the AI Product Development Lifecycle

Software Engineers looking to pave their path towards AI Product Management and understand how to position their skillset in the right ways.

Students or Current Product Managers that wish to understand how to pave their path to AI PM.

What Marily will cover in 3 weeks

Understanding the key technical &amp; AI concepts product managers need, in order to solve user problems with smart, niche technologies

Strengthening &amp; mastering the diverse skillset you will need throughout the product development lifecycle

Learning how to effectively partner &amp; collaborate with scientists, engineers and key stakeholders day-to-day while executing on your roadmap

Adopting a product-mindset &amp; user-first perspective throughout the AI product development lifecycle

Be able to train models end-to-end, understand the technical concepts behind model training

Strengthening your analytical skills, metrics-driven approach &amp; insight-driven decision making

Hands on working with Data and Google Colab

Hands-on AI concepts, model training, frameworks, processes & AI tools to build AI products with 0 coding experience. Get certified now! 

Cohort 12

Generative AI edition

🎨 Midjourney will enable you to create at a prolific pace. Leveraging AI in your workflow will exponentially boost your creative output and efficiency. Midjourney is the highest-quality image generator available on the market today. When used properly, Midjourney can transform entry-level creatives into prolific experts, and senior creatives into superhumans. 💥 There are dozens of powerful features and unique workflows to explore.Taking creative control over your image direction involves navigating features like remixing, parameters, image blending, variations, inpainting, outpainting, multi-prompting, negative prompting, permutations, weights, seeds, and more. 🧠 This course will teach you how to take control of your image generations.Whether you aim to use Midjourney for client work, launching an ad campaign, designing a website, concepting new ideas, storyboarding a film concept, expanding upon your existing asset library, or launching a new business, this course will teach you how to leverage all of Midjourney's incredible features so you can confidently navigate the tool and bring your ideas to life. 🧑‍🏫 How you'll learn:• 5 deep dive live sessions exploring workflows and advanced techniques• 40+ async video lessons covering every command, feature, and parameter• Custom projects that will test your skills and help you build out your AI portfolio• Interactive hands-on workshops to apply your learnings and optimize your workflow• Curated resources to help take your image assets and creative vision to the next level

Turn Midjourney into the Ultimate Creative Collaborator 

Learn how to control Midjourney and integrate AI into your creative workflow – from beginner to advanced prompting.

Be the first to know what's new on Maven

Explore

Teach

Maven