Intro to Product Management | FREE Online Livestream | August 30

Discover how product managers use leadership and versatility to launch products people love.

In this free, two-hour livestream, you’ll learn the basic elements and responsibilities of performing the role of a product manager within a digital company. Touch on key tools and techniques for testing, designing, and improving products. Walk through the fundamentals of the product management process including storyboarding, identifying risks and assumptions, and more. Then, apply what you’ve learned to design a basic minimum viable product. All in real time, taught by an industry professional.

Come learn the basics and gain the skills you need to drive product success!

What will the livestream learning experience be like?

• Ask questions and build your online network by interacting with fellow classmates and an expert instructor —all in real time via live chatbox and Q&A.
• Learn new skills in the comfort of your own home, or on the go! All participants will be automatically muted with no video.

• Describe the Product Management job landscape.
• Explain the role and core responsibilities of a product manager.
• Practice crafting problem statements and hypotheses for a product or feature idea.
• Identify key risks and assumptions.
• Learn to design a basic MVP to validate key assumptions.

Ready to continue on your learning journey?

Check out our course catalog to find your next step. Whether you’re looking to enhance your professional skill set in one of our part-time courses, or go for a complete career transformation by enrolling in one of our immersive courses, we’ve got you covered!

• This class is taken completely online, and requires a computer and a strong internet connection.
• We will provide a link to the platform on the day of the class. NOTE: Some domains block our automated emails, so If you don’t receive sign-in instructions within 1 hour of the livestream, please reach out to help@generalassemb.ly and we’ll send sign-in instructions right away!

Colleen is currently building a world class payments platform empowering Airbnb hosts and guests to exchange billions of dollars in over 191 countries and 70 currencies. At Airbnb, she also worked on growing the Experiences business which consists of activities hosted by local experts. Before Airbnb, Colleen worked with several different companies and projects, large and small, and across various industries, learning that the path to developing exciting products and highly productive teams always looks different. When not thinking about prioritization, scale and growth problems, or creative new opportunities, Colleen enjoys cooking and eating good food, biking, plants, and traveling (she has lived overseas twice). Colleen also runs a small fair trade business designing and importing jewelry made from seeds sustainably harvested from the rainforests of Ecuador, La Pucara Jewelry Collections.