Organised by General Assembly
About This Workshop
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.
Takeaways
- 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!
Preparation
- 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!
About the Instructor
Charis Loveland
AI Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services
Charis Loveland works at AWS as a business development manager on the cloud intelligence team specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning. She has a decade and a half of experience in product management, AI, data analytics, new product introduction, file and hardware storage, and software development. After launching a crowdsourcing platform for Azure ML at Microsoft, Charis founded Rue La La's data science team, creating and executing a roadmap and strategy for personalization and customer sub-segmentation. Charis co-founded an ML startup and has taught several business courses at General Assembly as well as online courses about data science at MIT, Dartmouth, and Columbia. Charis serves as a coding instructor, mentor, and advocate for early STEM education and volunteers for several nonprofits that help promote greater diversity in the technology industry.