Product Manager Trainee (m/w/d)

Digitale Leute is the platform for product management, UX-design, and engineering. We connect professionals and leaders in the digital industry through conferences, boot camps, and our community. Together with partners like Airbnb, Porsche Digital, Atlassian, or Rewe Digital, we shape the software development of tomorrow.

We offer practical training programs for the tech industry at our Digitale Leute School. A highlight is our Product Management Bootcamp – the ideal chance for a career start in product management.

Our trainers come from leading tech companies and pass on top-notch product management know-how. After the boot camp, we actively support you in your job search through our strong hiring network. For job seekers with an education voucher, participation is even completely free.

The next course starts soon – and there are still open spots! These contents await you:

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Product Strategy & Discovery

A clear product strategy helps you as a Product Manager define the overall goal of the software product. It sets out which problems your product solves, which needs it meets, and which goals it achieves. Additionally, it provides your entire team with a common guideline and enables all participants to work towards the same goal.

1. Product Vision & Strategy
2. User Centricity
3. User Research & Interviews
4. Ideation & Problem-Solution Fit
5. Business Models & Product-Market Fit
6. Lean Product Management
7. Product Goals with OKRs

Product & UX Design

In product management, user-centered design and a good user experience are crucial for success. You will learn the basics of usability, user experience, and user-interface design for Product Managers. Additionally, you will learn the necessary tools for effective communication with designers.

1. Introduction to UX/UI Design & Tools
2. Information Architecture & Wireframes
3. High-Fidelity Prototyping
4. User Tests & Validation Methods

Product Delivery & Stakeholder Management

As a Product Manager, you steer your team through agile processes like Scrum or Kanban to ensure successful product development. You will learn how central meetings – Daily, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective – work and what expectations are placed on you regarding delivery. Additionally, you will gain valuable insights into stakeholder management to optimize collaboration with all participants.

1. Agile Methods
2. Elements of Backlogs
3. Rituals & Rule-Termine (I)
4. User Stories Create
5. Technical Background
6. Rituals & Rule-Termine II
7. Roadmapping & Planning
8. Workflows & Releases

Product Analytics & Testing

As a Product Manager, you measure impact rather than gut feeling: You define clear KPIs, set up clean event tracking, and read data along funnels, cohorts, and retention. This way, you make informed decisions, recognize risks early, and test experiments thoroughly.

1. Application Monitoring: Tool-Deep-Dive
2. Manual (hands-on) Software Testing
3. KPIs & Tracking Events
4. Bug Reporting
5. Web Analytics with Google Analytics and Looker Studio

Career-Coaching

Our career coaching is aimed at aspiring Product Managers. We sharpen your profile, make projects and results visible, and develop a practical search and application strategy. This way, you can seamlessly integrate CVs and your LinkedIn presence – and you'll confidently navigate interviews and cases.

1. Job Search with Keywords & Roles
2. Analyze Your Own Strengths & Weaknesses
3. Preliminary Preparation of Curriculum Vitae and Application Materials
4. Tips on the Application Process

Qualification

• You are a fan of technology and can get excited about digital products
• You are ambitious and celebrate with your team the common success
• You enjoy agile working methods (Scrum, Kanban, Pairing etc.)
• You can convince customers and stakeholders of your plans with your visions
• You work well in a team, show initiative, and are pragmatic
• You have fun thinking entrepreneurially
• You are brave – uncertain situations you take as a challenge

Benefits

• We train you within 3 months remotely/online to become a Product Manager (German-speaking, at least B2)
• We support you in finding an employer during or after the boot camp that offers you a job start during or after the training
• The training is possible on a part-time basis
• You will receive a mentor who guides you through the program and simulate work in product teams
• After three months, you can start as a Product Manager with certification in digital product teams and know what the tasks of a strategically responsible product manager are

You will receive a certificate, all course materials, and a broad network. We recommend a language level of B2 in German for the course.

We look forward to your CV and application.

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