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.
Over 16 - 32 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, collaboration, and real-world mentored projects. Bring your own project or deploy with one of our 300+ industry partners.
Great product managers don’t just manage products — they shape what happens next. This postgraduate 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 Postgraduate Diploma, 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:
Whether you come from tech, design, or business, you’ll gain the mindset, confidence, and capability to deliver results in an AI-powered world.
Learn how to work productively and collaboratively in the age of AI.
Learn to identify AI market opportunities, and then design, test, and manage the delivery of a software product that is powered by AI
Mentored AI Project Experience
Gain real life project experience with mentoring from an industry expert. Work on an industry project or bring your own.
Learn how to stay relevant and facilitate employment and career advancement in the age of AI when skills become obsolete quickly
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.
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
In Australia, we accept the following as the minimum entry requirement: Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) Level 3 and Year 10 Literacy and numeracy outcomes.
If English is not your first language, you must provide:
Reframe them as prototypes of your thinking. That means:
A well-presented student project that reveals how you think is often more valuable than a generic internship. Employers are looking for potential — and potential reveals itself in reflection.
If your academic project was theoretical, add one layer: talk to someone in the field, or redesign the solution based on a real-world dataset or user need. Suddenly, it’s not academic anymore. It’s applied.
Not necessarily. But there’s often a short-term trade-off. You may step sideways or slightly down in salary — but the long-term trajectory is steeper. The key is to reduce the “valley of transition”:
According to the 2024 MBIE labour market update, digital roles in NZ have some of the fastest year-on-year salary growth. So while the pivot may feel like a step back, the runway ahead is long and promising.
Our Mission Advisors have helped a number of candidates work through how to make the accelerator work financially. It is best to book a one on one conversation to understand your options.
Mentored work experiences are structured programmes where you engage in practical work activities under the guidance and supervision of experienced mentors. These experiences are designed to provide real-world exposure, skills development, and professional growth within a specific field or industry.
Mission Ready works with 300+ industry partners to provide mentored work experiences.
Participants work on actual projects or tasks that contribute to their understanding of the industry, allowing them to apply theoretical knowledge in practical settings. In addition to technical skills, mentored work experiences develop communication and teamwork skills that are so important in the modern work place.
Our facilitators match participants to mentors to provide you with valuable feedback, insights, and referrals.
The mentors, are experienced professionals who have agreed to provide guidance, feedback, and support. They help mentees navigate challenges, understand industry norms, and develop professionally.
These experiences often enable participants to connect with professionals in their field, expanding their professional network and opening doors to future job opportunities.
For many, these experiences can lead to employment opportunities within the host organisation or with others in the industry, based on the skills and relationships developed during the program.
Mentored work experiences are part of our Level 6 programmes.
You may need to incur the following costs:
Note: Fees and details are subject to change based on government policies and other factors.