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AI PRODUCT MANAGER ADVANCED ACCELERATOR

16 Weeks

Learn to lead AI-powered products that deliver real business impact and build the skills that make you indispensable in a world where technology and strategy meet.

About This Programme

Over 16 weeks, this programme develops your product management foundation and teaches you how to use AI to make smarter decisions, accelerate development, and design products customers love. Learn online, your way with coaching and collaboration.

Great product managers don’t just manage products — they shape what happens next. This postgraduate level programme helps you master the professional, technical, and leadership skills needed to build, launch, and grow AI-enabled products that create measurable business results.

You’ll learn to collaborate across disciplines, use AI as a decision-making partner, and connect business strategy with customer insight. If you continue to the AI Product Manager Advanced Industry Accelerator, you’ll apply your learning through a mentored, real-world project that proves your ability to drive outcomes, not just ideas.

This is where smart product managers become product leaders.

Who This Programme Is For

Perfect for:

  • Mission Ready graduates ready to take their career to the next level.
  • Product managers and upskillers aiming to lead AI initiatives or move into strategy roles.
  • Career changers ready to step into AI-driven product management or digital leadership.

Whether you come from tech, design, or business, you’ll gain the mindset, confidence, and capability to deliver results in an AI-powered world.

What You'll Learn

Phase 1 – AI-Enabled Collaboration and Productivity (6 weeks)

Learn how to work productively and collaboratively in the age of AI.

  • Professional Productivity with AI
  • Leading Collaboration in the Age of AI
  • Teaming with AIAutomating Workflows with AI
  • Ethics, Safety and Privacy of AI

Phase 2 – AI Product Management (10 weeks)

Learn to identify AI market opportunities, and then design, test, and manage the delivery of a software product that is powered by AI

  • Core Product Management Foundations
  • AI and Data Fundamentals for Product Managers
  • AI Product Strategy and Business Models
  • AI Product Discovery, Design and Delivery
  • AI Product Evaluation and Governance

TOOLS YOU'LL LEARN

Find Your Schedule

Duration

16
 weeks

Schedule

Full-time (30 - 35 hours weekly)

Part-time Programme (15 - 17.5 hours weekly)

You get the best of two worlds - A flexible, video-based learning experience, supported by weekly live Q&A sessions with your trainer and ongoing feedback from the Mission Ready team bringing you the best of flexibility and access to experts and coaches.

Full-Time

04
May
2026
Live sessions
06
Jul
2026
Live sessions
02
Nov
2026
Live sessions

Part-Time

No intakes planned

INVEST IN YOUR FUTURE

NZD 

4,980

ZERO FEES Upfront available
Flexible Payment plans
FUNDING SUPPORT AVAILABLE

Mission Ready Support

Flexible Payment Plans for approved candidates.

Bring a friend referral
Refer a friend who enrols and you’ll both get $250 off your fees.

* Fees subject to change

Entry criteria
  • Admission and Selection  
    • All applications for admission to this programme are reviewed by Mission Ready to ensure that every applicant meets the admission and selection requirements stated below.
    • All applicants must have completed a relevant Bachelor’s degree or Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma or provide evidence of equivalent relevant skills and knowledge gained through appropriate work or professional experience.
    • All applicants for admission to this programme must be able to demonstrate a level of English language fluency that is equivalent to the requirements of NCEA Level 3 or higher. Where no acceptable evidence of language fluency exists, applicants may be required to take an appropriate language assessment test.
    • International applicants must provide evidence of meeting NZQA’s published English language entry requirements.

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The tech industry is faced with a growing skills shortage and the traditional education pathways would not solve this ... which is why we created New Zealand's first tech career accelerator
DIANA SHARMA
Co-founder & Mission Director

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ALAN KAN

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SEBIN BENJAMIN

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ARASH MOGHADAM

Software Development Trainer
CHANDNI ADESHARA

CHANDNI ADESHARA

Facilitator & Coach
CHARLES ANGELES

CHARLES ANGELES

Partnerships & Placements Manager
CORINNE DAVIES

CORINNE DAVIES

UX Design Trainer
BARUK JACOB

BARUK JACOB

UX Design Trainer

STUDENT SUCCESS

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Industry leaders value our graduates. Our alumni have gone on to work at companies like Datacom, Cin7, One NZ and PWC.

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