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Future Skills Short Course

Product Management Fundamentals

Deliver the desirable, feasible, and commercially viable digital products. Learn how to consistently adopt a product-led focus to enable scalable solutions at every stage of the product life-cycle and improve business outcomes.

Prerequisites
None
Time commitment
8 weeks (5-8 hours per week)
Prerequisites
None
Time commitment
8 weeks (5-8 hours per week)

100% online, mentor supported, workplace ready

Product managers play a critical role in business as the leaders of the vision, strategy, design, execution, and optimisation of new and established digital products. The product management skills benchmark report states that 1 in 5 products fail to meet customer expectations, making a well-performing product-manager, a great product vision, and a solid launch even more critical. As a product manager, you’ll possess a diverse skillset and wear multiple hats including data analysis, product optimisation, stakeholder management, product lifecycle management, and more. 

Whether you're looking to upskill or transition into the role of a product manager, this course will provide you with the end - to end skills to deliver and optimise successful digital products. You'll explore product market fit, a go-to market strategy, product roadmaps, product delivery, and more. 

Career outlook

Take a closer look at what opportunities in the Product Management Fundamentals field.

Job satisfaction

Product Managers have a job satisfaction of 4.1/5

Industry growth

22.3% Projected job growth in the next 5 years

Salary expectations

The average Produce Manager salary in Australia is $125k

Job opportunities

In Australia there are 2,100+ jobs available

Course overview

Learn more about our Product Management Fundamentals course in the video below.

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Course structure

  • Explore various product types 
  • Learn to construct a business model canvas (BMC) 
  • Understand the different stages of the product lifecycle 
  • Examine your milestone toolkit 

Learn with industry experts

Jay Stansell
Jay StansellFounder at ProductCoalition.com

Jay Stansell has a breadth of experience taking products to market, being a two-time business owner, having started three startups and also having digital experience across three businesses. With a customer focus, Jay respects the governance and people leadership required to take a product from idea to execution.

Brett Robert Lloyd Elliott
Brett Robert Lloyd ElliottSenior Product Manager at Envato

Experienced Product Manager with over 8 years product delivery experience working for large eCommerce websites, incubators and start-ups. A skilled people manager with a foundation in Product Management, Business Analysis, Project Management and UX. Using data and research to drive opportunities, collaboration and facilitation to drive outcomes, MVP and hypothesis

Learner success team
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Why choose RMIT Online

Get a world-class education and transform your career.

Real world skills

Develop skills that have been validated by industry, while getting credentialed by a world-leading university.

Industry connected

You'll gain knowledge and practical skills from renowned industry partners who are at the forefront of their field.

Flexible delivery

Advance your career while you study. RMIT Online courses let you balance work, study and life commitments.

Supported community

Be guided by a network of industry experts and peers, and supported by our dedicated success team.

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