Accelerate Your PM Career

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Cohort-based Course

Actionable Principles & Playbooks to plan career, develop product & leadership skills, finding sponsors, get promoted, and land great jobs.

Course overview

Develop an actionable plan to accelerate your career next year!

Course Outcomes

- Create a career northstar and work backwards on a 2025 plan.

- Create a skills development plan that aligns with your career plan.

- Learn how to uplevel product and leadership skills through deliberate practice.

- Learn how to develop a performance & promotion plan in partnership with your manager.

- Learn how to prepare for interviews and run a job search process to land at top tier companies.



Course Syllabus

- Career mental models, north star and planning

- Developing Product Thinking Skills

- Developing Execution Skills

- Developing Leadership Skills

- Developing High Agency

- Finding Waves Inside Your Company 

- Getting Promoted Internally

- Transition from IC to Manager

- Managing Up Authentically

- Upleveling PM Interview Skills

- Upleveling Job Search Skills


Format

- Blend of principles/frameworks combined with application to your scenarios in breakout groups.

- In-class & take home exercises to practice different skills.

- Template for career planning, promotion planning, performance management.

- Worksheets for deliberate practice for different skills.

- Worksheets for job search and interview preparation.


Your Potential Peers

My past courses have included people from Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Atlassian, Cisco, Dell, Dropbox, eBay, Expedia, Flipkart, GitHub, Google, IBM, Intel, LinkedIn, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, Netflix, Nike, Nvidia, Okta, Oracle, PayPal, Pinterest, Plaid, Qualcomm, Roku, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Shopify, Spotify, Stripe, Uber, Upwork, VMware, Walmart, Wayfair, Workday, Yelp, Zoom.

Who is this course for

01

Individual Contributor (IC) Product Managers at technology companies who want to develop actionable plans to accelerate their careers.

02

Product Managers who are looking for tactical playbooks & exercises to develop core product & leadership skills.

03

Product Managers who want to get promoted / transition to management in their current companies OR to find great roles at other companies.

What you’ll get out of this course

How to design a meaningful career


How to develop a 2025 plan working backwards from your northstar


How to develop product thinking, execution and leadership skills


How to develop High Agency


How to manage up to attract sponsors

How to plan for a promotion with your manager

How to prepare for interviews and plan a job search

This course includes

2 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

9 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Course syllabus

Week 1

Dec 7—Dec 8

    Career mental models, north star and planning

    2 items

    Growing Within Your Company

    2 items

    Day 1 Recap: Career Mental Models + Growing Within Company

    2 items

    Finding External Jobs

    2 items

    How to develop Product Thinking Skills

    0 items

    How to develop Execution Skills

    0 items

    How to develop Leadership Skills

    0 items

    How to develop High Agency

    0 items

    Finding Waves Inside Your Company 

    1 item

    How to Manage Up Authentically

    0 items

    How to develop a Performance & Promotion Plan

    0 items

    Dec

    7

    Accelerate PM Career - Day 1 Saturday Dec 7 2024

    Sat 12/74:00 PM—11:00 PM (UTC)

Post-course

    Dec

    10

    Session 3

    Tue 12/101:00 AM—3:00 AM (UTC)

Meet your instructor

Satish Mummareddy

Satish Mummareddy

Over his 20 year career as a product & engineering leader, Satish had led & scaled products at Meta, Yelp, Yahoo and VideoMining. At Meta, Satish led teams building content & product recommendations, teen safety & well-being, civic engagement and advertising products. Previously, he led the services verticals and self-serve ads businesses at Yelp, and supported video platforms & personalization at Yahoo. Satish started his career as a computer vision researcher at a start up building AI driven products after graduating from Penn State University. 


After switching from an engineering leadership role to an IC PM role 11 years ago Satish realized that he needed to develop skills to Influence Without Authority. He is sharing the playbook of principles, processes, skills and frameworks developed over the last decade so that you can improve your influence skills at a 10x faster rate with 10% of the effort.

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Course schedule

14 hours of live sessions

  • Saturday, Nov 2 2024

    8 AM - 3PM US Pacific Daylight Time

    12 PM - 6PM US Eastern Daylight Time

  • Sunday, Nov 3 2024

    8 AM - 3 PM US Pacific Time

    12 PM - 6PM US Eastern Daylight Time

  • All sessions will be recorded and shared within 24 hrs.


Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

Frequently Asked Questions

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