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Batch 16

Post Graduate Certificate in Product Management

Efficiently manage the end-to-end product life cycle and deliver business success
  • Live sessions on GenAI
  • Hands-on experience with tools like Asana, Mixpanel, Miro and more
  • Learn from the #1 school for marketing in the US
  • Master product strategy and analytics using AI-driven insights
Work Experience

This program is open for enrolments for residents of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia only.

What Makes This Kellogg Executive Education Program Unique?

7

Top Product Management Tool Demos

33

Discussion Sessions

21

Try-it Activities

100+

Pre-recorded Videos by Kellogg Faculty

41

Assignments

4

Career Webinars

1

Cutting-edge Live Masterclass on GenAI by Program Leader

1

Module on AI and ML for Product Managers

Note:

  • This is a self-paced online program. Thus, faculty will not be a part of weekly live sessions or any other live interaction in this program. We have a curated panel of eminent industry practitioners who will be conducting the weekly live doubt-clearing sessions. The program highlights presented above are approximate, and subject to change depending on the availability and expertise of the teaching faculty, as well as the program's desired outcomes.

  • *Assignments are graded either by industry practitioners who are available to support participants in their learning journey and/or by the Emeritus grading team. The final number of quizzes, assignments and discussions will be confirmed closer to the program start.

What Do Participants Say About this Kellogg Executive Education Program?

I chose this program to understand what goes into conceptualization, design and development of a product. Thankfully this program has all the Product Management essentials such as product innovation, ...
Headshot of Abhishek Mahapatra, Project Management Specialist at Maruti Suzuki. He shares his KLG PM testimonial on mastering product innovation, road mapping, and AI/ML, highlighting the capstone project and Professor Sawhney’s expert guidance.
Abhishek Mahapatra
Project Management Specialist
Maruti Suzuki India Limited
This program was a game-changer in the product management domain. Over the course of this 9-month program, we gained knowledge about customer insights, built bulletproof business models, and learned t...
Headshot of Ankit Upadhyay, Associate Manager at DXC Technology. His KLG PM testimonial highlights the 9-month program's focus on UI/UX design, Agile, AI/ML, and business models, praising Professor Sawhney’s mentorship in creating user-centric products.
Ankit Upadhyay
Associate Manager
DXC Technology
Best part was the capstone project, which helped in applying the concepts learned during the entire journey of the program practically
Headshot of Madhu Nagaraj, Area Product Owner at SAP Labs. His KLG PM testimonial emphasizes the practical value of the capstone project in applying product management concepts and the comprehensive learning journey experienced throughout the program
MADHU NAGARAJ
Area Product Owner, SAP Labs
The most valuable aspect was learning from top industry figures like Professor Sawhney and engaging sessions led by Mohan Simham
Headshot of Karthik Krishnamurthy, Chief Product Owner at SAP Labs. His KLG PM testimonial emphasizes the value of learning from industry experts like Professor Sawhney and Mohan Simham through the program's engaging and insightful sessions.
KARTHIK MADAYI KRISHNAMURTHY
Chief Product Owner, Digital Supply Chain - Planning & Manufacturing, SAP Labs
The effective teaching style, which involved clear articulation in easily understandable language, and the program's manageable pace was the best part of the program
Headshot of Debjit Mookherjee, Head of IoT at Ericsson. His KLG PM testimonial praises the program’s manageable pace and effective teaching style, noting the clear, understandable language used to explain complex product management concepts.
DEBJIT MOOKHERJEE
Head of IoT & Advanced Industries, Ericsson

Note: The participant testimonials are from the global cohort of the program.

Upon successful completion of the program, Kellogg Executive Education will grant a verified digital certificate of completion to participants.

What Certificate Will You Earn?

Upon successful completion of the program, Kellogg Executive Education will grant a verified digital certificate of completion to participants.

Note:

  • After successful completion of the program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the program.

  • All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of Kellogg Executive Education.

  • This online certificate program does not grant academic credit or a degree from the Kellogg School of Management.

Learn from the best

Kellogg's MBA program has consistently been ranked #1 in Marketing.

Source - U.S. News & World Report (2022).

High-level Program Takeaways

  • Master the end-to-end process of discovering, designing, developing, delivering, and managing products

  • Learn the strategic thinking and tactical implementation skills needed to become a professional product manager

  • Gain certifications in product management tools and methodologies, including project management, A/B testing (Optimizely), and analytics (Google Analytics)

  • Hone your communication, negotiation, and influence skills to effectively manage people and relationships

  • Apply frameworks and tools to develop a start-to-finish product marketing plan

Who is This Program For?

This program is ideal for: 

  • Mid to senior-level professionals interested in driving product management and contributing to business growth 

  • Professionals making a lateral career move from an adjacent field such as sales, marketing, engineering, and UI/UX will also find this program beneficial as it will help build their proficiency in understanding the implications of technology on the product portfolio and managing cross-functional roles in product management 

Here are some of the most popular job titles in this field: 

  • Product Manager/Product Owner

  •  Associate Product Manager

  •  Product Leader

  •  Product Specialist  

  • Digital Product Lead

  •  E-commerce Product Manager  

  • Product Marketing Manager 

Program Topics

Learn what a product manager (PM) does and how the role varies across industries, company size, and format (B2B and B2C). Learn what you need to succeed in this role and what makes an outstanding product manager.

Learn about the nature, sources, and tools of customer insights (e.g., ethnography, customer experience mapping, customer advisory boards, product telemetry, human factors research, etc.), and move from insights to action.

Learn how to define and find product opportunities, Jobs-to-Be-Done (JTBD) framework, and assessing opportunities using the Real-Win-Worth It (R-W-W) framework.

Learn how to create a discovery hypothesis, measure product-market fit, apply the MVP framework (user stories, epics, and themes), and address the Agile requirements document.

Learn the definition and importance of business models and business model taxonomy—Freemium, Software as a Service (SaaS), and marketplace models, and equip yourself to choose the right business model for your product.

Understand the economics of a SaaS business (CLV, CAC, MRR, MRR Expansion, Churn); learn about analyses such as Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), and Product Profitability; and explore approaches to product pricing.

Learn the fundamentals of UX, conceptual, interaction, and virtual design, and the design sprint.

Explore the principles of Agile development, Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.), Scrum/Agile team structures, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 5.0), and learn about transitioning to Agile.

Link business strategy to product development using roadmaps and product portfolio management, and learn how to use roadmapping tools.

Discover the importance of prototyping, and learn about rapid prototyping, prototyping classifications (Alpha, Beta, Pilot), prototyping artifacts, wireframing, 3D printing, and prototyping best practices.

Get an overview of the product launch and Go-to-Market strategy (GTM), elements of GTM strategy, product positioning and messaging, and product-launch planning.

Receive an overview of internal and external communication, discover the fundamentals of storytelling, and learn to give effective product presentations and demos. Additionally, identify the hidden benefits of impactful written communications, and learn how to run efficient meetings and deal with difficult situations.

Address the definition and creation of the "whole offer"— the Make, Buy, or Ally decisions. Manage strategic partnerships and strategies for ecosystem development and growth.

Discover how a company might grow product sales through customer development, market development, and demand expansion. Learn how to manage product line extensions, product line pruning, and product sunsetting.

Learn how to develop the growth-hacker mindset, and explore growth-hacking skills, strategies, processes, and best practices.

Gain an overview of model evaluation metrics and ways of identifying biases to avoid analytical errors. Explore ways to leverage popular platforms and tools, such as Google Analytics.

Learn the definitions and fundamentals of analytics and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) along with AI/ML platforms, tools, and types of analytics—descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive.

Learn how to manage different relationships as a product manager. Specifically, this module will address relationships between the product manager and the engineering team, sales organizations, customers, and executive leadership.

Learn about the scalability of products versus services. Discover the development process for services and how it differs from that of products.

In this final module, you will complete and submit the capstone project.

For more information on the full syllabus, download our brochure

Build Your Skill Set

Phase 1: Build Your Prototype

  • Discover Customer Insights for Product Innovation

  • Define Product Requirements

  • Design Your Business Model

  • Analyze the Numbers

  • Roadmap Your Strategy

Phase 2: Go to Market

  • Communicate like a Pro

  • Manage Your Partner Ecosystem

  • Develop the Growth-Hacker Mindset

  • Assess the Data, Choose the Right Tool

  • Manage Stakeholder Relationships

Certifications Included in the Program

This program will also enable you with the skills to be proficient in the use of UI/UX, Product Roadmapping tools like:

Note: All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

Case Studies

Whirlpool Gladiator GarageWorks

Product management case study on customer discovery and insight gathering. Shows how Whirlpool identified user frustrations with garage clutter to develop a successful, organized product solution package.

Explore how Whirlpool listened to customer frustrations and gathered insights on the clutter in their garages. This discovery process led to the creation of GarageWorks—solution packages to help customers reclaim their garages through better organization.

Pareto Intelligence

Case study on the service-to-product transition in healthcare. Analyzes how Pareto Intelligence scaled technology solutions to improve value-based outcomes through strategic product development.

Examine the process of taking a health care-related service and turning it into a product as Pareto Intelligence has done with their technology solutions to improve value-based outcomes.

Amazon Kindle Fire Phone

A product management post-mortem on the Amazon Kindle Fire. Analyzes the failure of CEO-led development that ignores customer-centric design and market feedback in the product lifecycle.

A post-mortem study about the doomed product that the company's CEO was adamant about creating while refusing to listen to what customers actually wanted.

Airbnb

Analysis of Airbnb’s 11-step growth-hacking strategy. Focuses on the role of professional photography in building user trust and the tactical scaling of a global product marketplace.

Examine the role that professional photography plays at Airbnb while going through the eleven steps of the company's growth-hacking strategy.

WeWork

Product strategy case study examining top-down market sizing. Explores how WeWork utilized specific market entry data and aggressive scaling tactics to achieve rapid global growth.

Study an example of top-down market sizing and how WeWork achieved this.

Motorola

Case study on stakeholder management and product redesign. Explores the steps taken when a major customer requests critical hardware changes just before a smartphone product launch.

Motorola is ready to launch its Droid 2 smartphone. Just before launch, the company's biggest customer, Verizon, conveys that consumers don't like the camera button and asks for a redesign. What steps do you take in this situation?

Note: Kellogg Executive Education's use of product and company names does not imply that it is affiliated with or endorsed by them.

Who Among the Kellogg Faculty Will You Learn From?

Profile of Professor Sawhney, global expert in business innovation and analytics. Author of 'The Sentient Enterprise' and HBR contributor. Holds a Wharton Ph.D. and IIT degree. Consultant for top firms like Microsoft, Adobe, and Goldman Sachs.
MOHANBIR SAWHNEY

Associate Dean for Digital Innovation; McCormick Foundation Chair of Technology; Clinical Professor of Marketing; Director of the Center for Research in Technology and Innovation

Professor Sawhney is a globally recognized scholar, teacher, consultant, and speaker in business innovation, modern marketing, and enterprise analytics. He has written seven m...

Instructors

Profile of Tami Reiss, product strategy leader with 15+ years of experience in B2B SaaS and scaling startups. Expert in product management coaching and author of 'What do Product Managers Do?'. Specialized in setting growth strategies for enterprises.
TAMI REISS

Product Strategy Leader

Tami Reiss is a product strategy leader with 15+ years of experience helping startups, established enterprise companies, and community profit organizations define their produc...

Profile of Steven, Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks with 12+ years of experience at Microsoft, AOL, and EA. Specializes in leading Machine Learning and AI products. Expert in enterprise best practices, user feedback, and product management coaching.
STEVEN BENARIO

Product Manager

Steven is a Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks, an industry-leading cybersecurity provider. In his 12+ years in Product, he has worked with a broad swath of companies inclu...

Profile of Tamara, Design Lead at IDEO and expert in remote work. With 15+ years of experience at Google, Automattic, and Oliver Wyman, she specializes in design, partnerships, and management consulting. Part-time instructor and co-author.
TAMARA SANDERSON

UX/UI Design Lead

Tamara has lived as an expat for nearly nine years and visited 70 countries, all while working at Google, Automattic, and Oliver Wyman. She has approached her career with the ...

Financing Options* Starting at INR 6,551/month.

Also available in 12/ 18/ 24 months EMI plans.

Program Fee

Max Loan Amount

Tenure (months)

EMI

INR 2,95,000 + GST

INR 2,81,250

36

INR 9,396

Program Fee

Max Loan Amount

Tenure (months)

EMI

INR 2,95,000 + GST

INR 2,81,250

48

INR 7,560

Program Fee

Max Loan Amount

Tenure (months)

EMI

INR 2,95,000 + GST

INR 2,81,250

60

INR 6,551

Note:

  • The above EMI's are indicative and figures in INR are approx.

  • The EMI's offered by each of the loan providers might vary from the above figures, depending upon tenure and loan amount to be disbursed.

  • Our Program Advisors will help you with information on how to avail a loan from our loan providers.

  • *Applicable only for Indian residents.

Emeritus Career Services

15 Recorded sessions and resources in the following categories  

(Please note: These sessions are not live)  

  • Resume And Cover Letter Building  

  • Job Search Navigation  

  • Interview Preparation  

  • LinkedIn Profile Optimization  

  • Access To Interview Preparation Guidebooks in Business Analytics and Data Science, Digital Marketing, And Product Management.  

Note: -  

Kellogg Executive Education or Emeritus do NOT promise or guarantee a job or progression in your current job. Career Services is only offered as a service that empowers you to manage your career proactively. The Career Services mentioned here are offered by Emeritus. Kellogg Executive Education is NOT involved in any way and makes no commitments regarding the Career Services mentioned here.  

Job Placement Assistance 

  • Job openings are sourced by the Career Services team and virtual hiring drives are conducted for the applicants. 

  • Dedicated online portal for all candidates where they can apply for jobs & track past applications. 

  • Regular job postings. 

Please note: 

  • Kellogg Executive Education or Emeritus do NOT promise or guarantee a job or progression in your current job. Career Services is only offered as a service that empowers you to manage your career proactively. Emeritus offers the Career Services mentioned here. Kellogg Executive Education is NOT involved in any way and makes no commitments regarding the Career Services mentioned here. 

  • Job placement assistance will extend for 3 months from the start date of the service.   

  • Job placement assistance is focused on students with 0 to 5 yrs. of experience. 

  • This service is available only for Indian residents enrolled in select Emeritus programs. 

Registration for this program is done through Emeritus. You can contact us at kellogg.execed@emeritus.org

The Learning Experience

Join a global community of 300,000+ professionals across 200 countries who have advanced their careers with Emeritus. In a recent survey, 9 out of 10 learners said their expectations were met or exceeded.

From day one, you’ll get access to carefully designed course material, live interactions, and a structured cohort-based journey that keeps you on track. Our approach blends flexibility with accountability—so you don’t just start, you finish strong.

And you’re never on your own. A dedicated program support team is available 7 days a week to guide you with platform queries, technical support, or any learning-related questions—so you can focus on what really matters: your growth.

A dedicated programme support team is available 7 days a week to answer questions about the learning platform, technical issues, or anything else that may affect your learning experience.

Flexible payment options available.

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