Accelerate

PM Career Accelerator Program

Stop being stuck in execution. Start being seen as a strategic leader.

A 10-week cohort program for ambitious Product Managers who want to accelerate their career, get promoted faster, and land top-tier opportunities.

Program to help you with

Crafting Career Vision

Career Ladder Climb

Enhanced Visibility

Winning at interview

Bridge the gap between where You are and who You want to be

You put in the effort. You attend meetings, ship features, and follow the rules. Yet the career growth you want still feels out of reach.

Hard work alone does not create acceleration. Knowledge alone does not move the needle.

Clarity, action, and systems create progress.

The PM Career Accelerator is built for Product Managers who want to rise faster. This 10-week program closes the gap between where you are today and the leader you want to become.

This is a shift:

✔ From scattered tasks to clear career direction
✔ From endless learning to practice that builds skills
✔ From being execution-focused to being recognized as strategic
✔ From unnoticed work to influence with leadership
✔ From reactive hustle to systems that drive results
✔ From hesitation to consistent action
✔ From working alone to support from ambitious peers

If your goal is promotion, a transition to a new company, or recognition for your strategic impact, the PM Career Accelerator gives you the tools and support to get there.

Ten weeks. Focused modules. A stronger version of you.

You don’t grow your PM career by working harder. You grow it by working smarter — building visibility, influence, business acumen, and a deliberate career plan.

Why This Program Exists?

After working with hundreds of PMs across industries, one pattern is clear:
👉 Most PMs plateau because they do not know how to make their impact visible, influence stakeholders, and navigate career moves intentionally.

This program is designed to help you:

  • Build a career north star and work backward into a plan.
  • Align skills development with your promotion or job search goals.
  • Learn frameworks for strategic product thinking, leadership, and influence.
  • Prepare for your next role or promotion with clarity and confidence.

What you will learn, practice & build in this program?

Every week combines principles + frameworks with hands-on application in breakout groups.
You will learn and apply it to your own career.

Module 1

Career Mental Models, North Star & Planning

  • Set your north star and create a backward career plan.
  • Apply proven frameworks for long-term growth.

Module 2

Developing Product Thinking Skills

  • Move from execution to strategy.
  • Learn how to tell stories about product outcomes, not tasks.

Module 3

Developing Execution Skills

  • Build an operating system for prioritization, OKRs, and delivery excellence.
  • Learn how to avoid being stuck in execution hell.

Module 4

Developing Leadership Skills

  • Build influence without authority.
  • Learn how to manage stakeholders and craft compelling narratives.

Module 5

Developing High Agency

  • Take ownership of outcomes beyond your job description.
  • Become the PM everyone trusts to get things done.

Module 6

Finding Waves Inside Your Company

  • Learn how to identify the highest-leverage opportunities.
  • Position yourself for projects that matter to leadership.

Module 7

Getting Promoted Internally

  • Build a promotion plan with your manager.
  • Manage perception and visibility to accelerate advancement.

Module 8

Transition from IC to Manager

  • Learn the mindset and skill shifts from IC to Manager.
  • Create your PM Playbook to scale impact through others.

Module 9

Managing Up Authentically

  • Learn to influence executives while staying authentic.
  • Navigate difficult conversations with confidence.

Module 10

Upleveling PM Interview Skills

  • Master frameworks for product sense, execution, strategy, and leadership interviews.
  • Practice with worksheets and peer feedback.

Module 11

Upleveling Job Search Skills

  • Create a structured job search process.
  • Build a personal brand that attracts top-tier opportunities.

Module 12

Personal System & Processes

  • Master productivity and time management.
  • Build habits that drive real results.

10 Weeks. One new you. Built through weekly action.

Why this program works?

  • Actionable, not theoretical – You will walk away each week with career artifacts: your north star, career compass, promotion plan, roadmap story, PM playbook.
  • Built for busy PMs – Sessions are structured, exercises are targeted, and everything ties back to your career outcomes.
  • Peer learning & accountability – You will join a community of ambitious PMs who push each other forward.
  • Future-proof – Skills you will need not just today, but for your next 5–10 years in product leadership.

Skills you will master for workplace success

These skills are not taught in isolation. Rather they are integrated into real-world challenges, weekly practice, and reflection, so you do not just learn them, you live them.

How the Program Works?

This transformative program is completely hands on with interactive, applied learning experience.

This is how you will learn in the program

  • Live workshops mixing frameworks with real-world scenarios.
  • Breakout groups to apply lessons to your career challenges.
  • In-class & take-home exercises for deliberate practice.
  • Templates & worksheets for career planning, promotion planning, and performance management.
  • Interview prep resources to practice and refine your skills.

Why you should join?

Hands-On Learning

This isn’t your typical course — experience real transformation through practical, hands-on tasks and learning.

Life-Changing Skills

You’ll gain the skills that top employers and entrepreneurs value most.

Fast-Tracked Results

In just 10 weeks, you’ll emerge as a more confident, skilled, and marketable professional.

Experiential Learning

Learn by doing, with a balance of self-paced learning and teamwork.

Network with Peers

Connect, collaborate, and grow alongside a community of like-minded professionals.

Invest in Your Professional Growth

You are not behind. You are just running without a map.

Accelerate Program helps you slow down, reflect, and rebuild with intention.

Get 3 year access to Think Tank Membership (worth Rs. 28764) free when you sign up for this program.

Your Investment

Rs. 24,999 per participant

Next Batch 6th November 2025, 930-1130 PM IST

You have been stuck in the same role for years. You know you are capable of more but something's not clicking.


Accelerate Program helps you turn invisible effort into visible growth.

ProductHood helped me in building capabilities and upskilling myself. The program offered by them is very structured and grills you in bringing the structural change in mindset.

Dikshant Chawla

McKinsey & Company

Who should attend

This program is for ambitious Product Managers (at any level) who want to

Accelerate their career and get promoted faster.

Transition from execution-focused IC role to strategic leader.

Build influence and confidence with stakeholders & executives.

Prepare for top-tier job opportunities and interviews.

You see others getting noticed, promoted, and paid more and wonder, “What are they doing differently?”
Accelerate Program helps you become that person.

What more you will get?

Weekly Live Classes

2 hour of live class for discussions and Q/A.

Forum

Discuss and network within the community using Forums.

Assignments

Practice regularly on your own and with team.

Live Activities

Participate and learn with the cohort.

Learning Material

Read additional learning resources.

Key Program Take Aways

Career North Star

Create your career north star and design a long term career acceleration plan.

Upskilling Plan

Build a skills development plan that matches your career ambitions.

Deliberate Practice

Learn deliberate practice to uplevel product & leadership skills.

Digital Authority

Build a visible, authentic personal brand that attracts opportunities.

Promotion Plan

Develop a performance & promotion plan with your manager.

Interview Ready

Be interview-ready and run a structured job search to land at top-tier companies.

How long will you wait to become the version of yourself that leaders and peers actually see?

Another quarter passes. Same role. Same meetings. Same questions about career growth.

The plan to figure it out eventually keeps slipping further away.

Ambition is not the problem. The real gap is direction, tools, and support.

The PM Career Accelerator is built to stop the cycle and start the climb.

This 10-week program helps PMs shift from:

✔ Feeling stuck in the middle → to moving forward with purpose
✔ Consuming endless theory → to creating visible outcomes
✔ Feeling behind peers → to confidently navigating product leadership
✔ Getting overlooked for promotion → to becoming the obvious next choice
✔ Burning out in cycles → to creating balance with systems that last
✔ Sitting on ideas → to turning them into tangible wins
✔ Growing in isolation → to thriving with a peer community that gets it

This is not theory. This is applied practice with frameworks, exercises, and peer accountability.

Ten weeks will pass no matter what. The question is whether you stay in the same place or accelerate into the next version of your career.

Join now. Build the next version of you one module at a time.

The platform is fantastic, allowing users to share their learnings, interact, and grow together in this tremendous learning experience. This approach, in my opinion, allows for greater engagement and collaboration while also being incredibly user-friendly. ProductHood has definitely figured out how to design and implement online learning in a way that allows other participants to get the most out of the program in terms of learning, networking, and opportunities.

Saksham Jain

NMIMS, Mumbai

Learning is better with cohorts

Learn with like minded peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

Project based learning

Work in teams and solve real world problems to make you unstoppable.

Actionable insights

Forget theory. Apply what you learn to solve your most pressing problems.

Product Leader with 20 years of experience.

IIT Delhi Alumni. Ex Naukri.com, CarDekho, Awfis, iXiGO, Brevo.

Meet your mentor

Lokesh Gupta

Lokesh is the founder of ProductHood School. He has more than 20 years of experience across product and technology management. He has held senior leadership positions at multiple well funded startups across wide domains.

He has been teaching professionals and students for over a decade now and helped people upskill themselves on various new age skills required to work in product companies.

He has taught more than 5000+ professionals and regularly conducts training sessions, workshops and cohort programs on ProductHood School.

He is an alumni of IIT Delhi and graduated with double degree in Chemical Engineering. He has also done his MBA from Sunstone Business School.

He also consults with high growth startups on all things related to product strategy and growth.

FAQ

Most frequent questions and answers

PM Career Accelerator Program is a 10 week, action-driven transformation program for product professionals who want to accelerate their career and are looking to transition to next role fast.

Most courses focus on passive content consumption. PM Career Accelerator Program is built around weekly action sprints with practical challenges, reflections, and real-world outputs. You will apply what you learn and not just watch videos.
PM Career Accelerator Program is ideal for product professionals who feel stuck, undervalued, or directionless and want to build clarity, confidence, and career momentum through practice and action.

You’ll build skills in

  • Career Mental Models, North Star & Planning
  • Developing Product Thinking Skills
  • Developing Execution Skills
  • Developing Leadership Skills
  • Developing High Agency
  • Finding Waves Inside Your Company
  • Getting Promoted Internally
  • Transition from IC to Manager
  • Managing Up Authentically
  • Upleveling PM Interview Skills
  • Upleveling Job Search Skills
  • Personal System & Processes

In order to make the best use of this program, we expect that you will show up weekly.

However if for some reason, you are not able to participate then you don’t need to worry at all.

You can resume from where you left and continue to build the momentum again.

Everything is managed through cohort portal with recorded sessions and learning resources.

You’ll be part of a growth-focused community with opportunities for feedback, peer support, live sessions and check-ins. You’re not doing this alone.

You’ll walk away with upgraded skills, a visible personal brand, a reliable system for progress, and the confidence to move forward in your career with clarity, consistency, and momentum.

Program duration is of 10 weeks.

On an average, 4-8 focused hours per week. Each week is designed to fit into busy schedules without overwhelming you.

Due to the nature of the program, we don’t offer refund once the program starts. We are confident about the program outcomes and believes that you will be able to reap the benefits manifold. However you can request for refund before the program starts.

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