Product

Manager
Fellowship
Syllabus
Fellowship Overview
The goal of NextLeap’s Product Manager Fellowship is to help you master the
fundamentals of product management and break into a career at top tech companies.

After graduating from this program you will be:

Proficient in product management fundamentals - from user research and problem

framing to metrics deep dive and system design.

Ready to crack product interviews - from problem solving to product design and
strategy

Live learning with Mentorship & career

industry experts
guidance

Learn product management Get mentored by industry

fundamentals from industry professionals on how to go
experts working at Microsoft, about building your dream
Zalando and more.
career at a top tech company.

Project based learning Placement support

Get hands-on experience by
solving real world problems
faced at tech companies.
Top fellows get access to 1:1
mock interviews with mentors
and interviews with tech
companies at the end of the
fellowship.

Enrol Now

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Curriculum

Week 1

Mapping Business Understand business model

Outcomes to Product Difference between business and product

outcomes and how to map them to each othe

Outcomes
What are leading and lagging indicator

Build a KPI Tree for a given product or a strategic

goa

Understand Product Development Life-Cycle

stages

Examples and cases from top tech companies like

Your Instructor

Arindam Mukherjee

“This has been a fantastic platform radiating high energies, aspirations and many more.

Made some great memories, life lessons, connections for life!! Thanks a TON!! ”

Sumi

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Curriculum

Week 2

Product Discovery & User Articulate the what, why, and how of product

discover
Research

Dive deeper into the 5 stages of the design

thinking proces

Problem identification using the jobs to be done

framewor

When to use different user research method

How to conduct user research via surveys and

interview

Building a user person

Learn customer journey mapping

Examples and cases from top tech companies like

Your Instructor

Dharmesh Ba

“It was a fun experience. Definitely learned a lot and I feel comfortable enough with

the pm domain. Was a total stranger when I joined nextleap.”

Shivayou

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Curriculum

Week 3

Problem Framing, How to draft a well crafted problem statement

Ideation & Validation

Use Hypothesis-led approach to define a problem

statement

Learn to generate multiple ideas to solve a

problem statement.

Use mindmaps in product developments.

Validate the idea with users.

Examples and cases from top tech companies like

Your Instructor

Arindam Mukherjee

“Cleanly curated content, extremely dedicated team, wondering where does the

community and learning team get the energy from! ”

Ritvik

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Curriculum

Week 4

Designing and Building a Learn about the core principles of UX Design

Prototype
Create wireframes for your idea

Learn to create a prototype using no-code tools

Examples and cases from top tech companies like

Your Instructor

Madhuri

“Learned basics of product management, made a few friends and connected with a few

more. Path was chosen in desperation of being somewhere and now loving IT”

Amit

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Curriculum

Week 5

Metrics, Analysis & Learn the different types of metrics and key

categories
Experimentation
Understand what is A/B testing and why it is

useful

Use A/B tests for building your digital product

Get to know the different factors to consider while

deconstructing a product.

Examples and cases from top tech companies like

Your Instructor

Anirban Das

“Lots of learning, great mentors, interesting projects, challenging cases, all in all a

wonderful experience”

Trishanya

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Curriculum

Week 6

Driving Product Growth Loops and funnel

Distribution strateg

Retention and Engagement

Examples and cases from top tech companies like

Your Instructor

Anirban Das

“Lots of learning, great mentors, interesting projects, challenging cases, all in all a

wonderful experience”

Trishanya

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Curriculum

Week 7

Effective communication What are PRD

skills Learn to write effective PRD

Learn to structure your PRDs: Context, Objective,

Success Metrics, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria,

Edge Case Coverage, JTBD, Assumption

How to create a product roadma

How to prioritise between different elements in a

roadmap

Examples and cases from top tech companies like

Your Instructor

Anirban Das

“From knowing nothing about PM to feeling comfortable with everything, loved the

learning journey. So grateful for all the efforts taken by the NL Team to help us learn

and complete everything ”

Trisha

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Curriculum

Week 8

Tech 101 & System Design

Get to know how the internet works

Understand the importance of system design in

software development

Differentiate between functional and non-

functional requirements

Learn the architectural components of the system

and patterns

Build understanding on how APIs work.

Examples and cases from top tech companies like

Your Instructor

Zeeshan Syed

“Clarity, Effort, Confidence, Obsession that's what nextleap did to me”

Sai

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Curriculum

Week 9 - 12

Data Deep Dive, Interview Prep SQ

& Graduation Project Cohort & Funnel analysi

Resume & Portfoli

Interview Pre

Graduation project submission

Examples and cases from top tech companies like

Your Instructor

Mirza Rahim Baig

“There are 100 things which you think NextLeap will help you with in 8 weeks, But there

are actually a 1000 things which you’ll learn after these 8 weeks. ”

Aryan

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Learn The Skills

Get Hired

Submit your graduation project

Apply learnings from the project

Score 70% or more in your Graduation project

You get 3 attempts to submit the graduation project

Get access to our career services

Get a chance to interview with our growing list of hiring partners

Placement support for your dream job

1:1 mock interviews with mentors

Crack interviews at top tech companies by practising your interviewing skills with

industry professionals.

Practice real world interview questions

Practise from our database of real world interview questions and get ready to

tackle any challenge that comes your way.

Interviews with hiring partners

Get access to interviews with top technology companies.

Enrol Now

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Learn from Industry Experts

Arindam Mukherjee
Anirban Das

Mirza Rahim Baig Madhuri

Zeeshan Syed
Dharmesh Ba

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Frequently Asked Questions
What if I miss a live session?

Recordings will be made available for all of the live sessions with instructors.
Further, please note that we've designed our sessions to be participatory and
interactive, and recommend that you attend all to make the most of them.

Who can enrol for these fellowships?

The fellowships are open to anyone trying to break into a new role and there is
no requirement for minimum experience. However, if you’re currently studying,
please note that career services will not be available to you unless you’re a
final year student.

I'm a pre-final year student. Am I eligible to apply?

Yes, you can apply for the program. However, you won’t be eligible to access
our career services.

What is the graduation project?

At the end of the fellowship we will release a problem statement for you to
work. Your submission to this problem statement is called the graduation
project.

Can I re-submit my graduation project?

We will release a new problem statement at the start of every month. Once you
have completed the fellowship, you will get 3 attempts in the next 3 consecutive
months (after the fellowship) to submit your graduation project.

What's the problem statement that I'll be required to work on for the
graduation project?

A problem statement will be released at the start of the first month after you
have completed the fellowship. Thereafter, you'll have a time period of ~1
month to submit your graduation project.

Who all will be eligible to get access to career services?

You need to submit your graduation project and score more than 70% in your
project to get access to our career services.

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Frequently Asked Questions
What’s included in the career services?

As part of our career services, we’ll make your profile available to our partner
hiring companies. Depending on their requirement and selection criteria they
will reach out to you for interviews. Learners from our previous cohorts have
gotten hired at companies such as OLA, PhonePe, Slice, Cars24, Media.net,
Swiggy and many more.

If I don’t score more than 70%, will I still get a completion certificate?

Completion certificate will be given to every learner who completes all the
weekly milestones and submits the graduation project.

Will I receive a completion certificate?

Completion certificate will be given to every learner who submits the

graduation project at the end of the fellowship.

Are the programs open to postgraduate students? Are they open to people
with non-tech backgrounds? Is there a criterion for CGPA?

You don't need to know any programming language and CGPA/Degrees/GPA

does not matter.

Will the interviews be for internships or full time roles?

The interviews will be conducted for full time roles.

Which companies are hiring?

There have been 100+ hiring partners so far. A lot of companies have already
signed up for the new cohorts in each domain and the final list of the hiring
partners will be shared upon commencement of the respective Fellowships.

If I am unable to attend the program or need to withdraw at the last

minute, will I get a refund?

Refund requests can be raised only before the 28th of the month preceding

the Fellowship start date. If the reason is found genuine, we'll refund 100%

of the paid amount. Any requests raised after the aforementioned timeline will

not be processed. The decision on refund requests will be at the discretion of

the NextLeap team

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