Product Management Course in Reading

A 8 weeks online program built for Reading career switchers. No prior tech background required. CPD-recognised career switch programme, with live sessions, recordings, and a capstone project.

Why study product management from Reading

Reading sits in Thames Valley, with a job market shaped by the Thames Valley enterprise-tech corridor with Microsoft, Oracle, and Cisco offices. That gives local learners a steady pipeline of employers who hire for data and cloud roles, whether you stay in Reading or work remotely for teams elsewhere. The Product Management program teaches the tools that recruiters at these employers ask for: Jira, Notion, Figma, Amplitude or Mixpanel. We do not pretend the path is glamorous. It is steady, classroom-paced, with weekly assignments you can show a hiring manager.

Most Reading students join from sectors like care work, retail, banking, hospitality, and administration. The cohort runs live online so you can attend from your kitchen table after work, or watch the recording the next morning. There is no commute, no relocation, and no requirement to leave your current job until you are ready.

Reading employers active in enterprise tech and telecoms

These are examples of employers known to hire for the kinds of roles this program prepares you for. The list is illustrative, drawn from public hiring activity. CPD Base has no formal partnership with them.

• Microsoft
• Oracle
• Cisco
• PepsiCo
• Three
• the University of Reading

What you will learn

• Write a PRD a strong engineering team can build from
• Prioritise with a defensible framework
• Run customer research that produces decisions
• Communicate with executives and engineers in their language

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