Business
Free
London (Online)
Thursday, 17 October, 2024
7
–
9
am
EDT
Product Management Basics | Free Skills
About This Class
Before you can build, test, and launch products that users really need and love, you first need to understand the basics of product management.
In this two-hour session, you'll learn the essentials—starting with what a product is. Then we'll dive into what product managers do, the hard and soft skills you need to be a product manager, and different career possibilities within the industry.
If you're interested in a tech career, don't miss next week's session where we'll hear from our alumni—all of whom interact with products in one way or another—in a candid fireside chat. Hear about their experience from where they started, through their tech bootcamp, to where they are now.
Takeaways
- Define the discipline of product management
- Define the responsibilities of a product manager
- Explain various types of product managers and review potential paths for a career in product management
- Identify the skills needed to succeed as a product manager
Preparation
- This is a beginner friendly series, so no prior knowledge is necessary.
- A recording of this session will be sent at the end of the full Skill Seeker Series.
- This session will be held in a Zoom webinar, so your mic and camera will be off. We’ll interact through the Chat, Q&A, and reactions.
About the Instructor
Mark has worked as a Product Professional for over eight years, with spells as a Product Manager, Head of Product and Consulting Product Lead within a broad range of industries.
Covering early stage start-ups all the way through to global blue chip corporations, he has built, released and managed products in the ecommerce, gaming, fintech, medtech, crowdfunding and media sectors.
By day, Mark is currently working on building out the Product function at Everpress – a global fashion marketplace start-up which empowers grassroots creators to fight waste in fashion.
Mark says he is motivated by building groundbreaking products that solve real problems, and providing user experiences that delight customers.
He is a proponent of agile and lean product development, focusing on continuous cycles of discovery, iterative development, release and optimisation. He has studied lean business principles and conducted case studies across a wide range of industries to inform his methodology, and he has authored several reports on business and digital transformation.
Mark has been part of the product instructor team with General Assembly since 2015.
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