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Two related skills in one course: master tech to speak the same language with your team. Use it to AI-prototype features or a side project.

Lead PM @ Booking.com, PhD

Vladimir Kalmykov 

PhD Computer Science, first Tech PM in Booking.com, author at ProductDo.io 

Jan'25

Cohort April'26

✅ Why invest in learning with me?I’m a Lead PM at Booking.com, and one of the first tech PMs there, with over 10 years in the field.Before moving into product, I was a Software Developer and earned a PhD in Computer Science. I’ve worked on both sides and know exactly what technical understanding PMs need - and don't.I'll teach you exactly what matters (and why) for driving products forward. You'll get the technical and AI-building fluency needed to drive your team, no coding, no database internals, no load balancers.✅ What can better technical understanding do for your career?From a survey of 650 PMs, 56% want to speak the same language as their engineers to communicate effectively, and build trust. 61% want to estimate features on their own, so they can plan better and deliver on time. 36% want to land a Big Tech PM role, where tech skills are critical.And today, with the rise of AI tools, tech acumen is more important than ever, because it allows you to feel in control while working with AI agents (Replit, Claude, etc).✅ What makes this course different?The course is 20% theory and 80% hands-on: you’ll do over 200 exercises / 8 projects, because that’s how real skills stick.

The technical understanding a successful PM needs - nothing more.

Gain tech fluency to lead your team effectively

Gauge feature complexity without devs and write solid PRDs

Prepare to handle technical interviews

Turn ideas into clickable full-stack prototypes or even start a side-project

The course is designed to explain the tech foundations and AI-building from the first (intuitive) principles.

No prior tech or AI experience needed

Senior Product Managers who want to level up their technical acumen

Jr/Middle Product Managers who want to lead with confidence and accelerate their growth

Program/Project Managers, Producers, Designers, Data Analysts, because tech foundations are the same for everyone

Become an expert API Product Manager and learn how to scale and manage an API portfolio.

Founder, Level 250 | 3x VP, API Products

Verisk

Moodys

Oracle

SmartBear

Precisely

Emmanuel Paraskakis

15+ years in APIs | Product Consultant for SaaS and API Companies | 3x VP PM

Cohort 7

Cohort 8

If you’ve shipped an API product already and want to level up your expertise, this course is for you. You’ll learn how to design and deliver API products that meet technical standards but also drive measurable business impact. We’ll go beyond the basics, building APIs that empower both developers and business stakeholders, while solidifying your role as an API thought leader within your organization.You’ll walk away with a practical toolkit for everything from rapid prototyping to scaling API products for high-volume use:Understand APIs at a deeper level, enough to earn the respect of peers, leadership, and technical teams• Drive business impact by setting measurable goals and KPIs for your API products• Build a clear path to product growth through monetization, internal advocacy, and advanced GTM strategies• Deliver a stellar Developer Experience with better documentation, security, and onboarding flows• Become the API champion who can confidently guide decision-making and position APIs strategically in your organizationWhen you complete this course, you’ll have the skills and perspective to deliver real value and confidently guide and scale the next generation of API portfolios.

Accelerate Your Career and Become the Go-To API Expert in Your Organization

Define a Winning API Strategy for the Future

The API Lifecycle: Understand How Great APIs Are Made

Drive API Adoption with an Effective Go-to-Market Strategy

Design and Build a Working API Using Best Practices

Future-Proof and Protect your API Portfolio

Network and Collaborate with your peers

Product Managers with some API PM Experience who want to take on more responsibility and become experts at shipping public and internal API

Product Managers who have shipped API Products but want to gain a deeper understanding and scale to an API Portfolio

Product Leaders who want to hire and manage a team of API Product Managers.

Become an API Product Manager. Go from generalist to specialist and ship winning API products.

This course will help you bridge the gap between your current expertise and the technical knowledge needed to build products that power experiences for millions of users.Here’s why an API PM role might be your next big career move:• You’ll develop deep technical skills without needing to be a full-time coder.• You can position yourself as a niche specialist, potentially earning a premium salary.• You’ll have greater autonomy once you understand the ins and outs of APIs.• You’ll build and launch products that are core to modern digital ecosystems. API Fundamentals for Product Managers focuses on the essentials, getting you up to speed quickly so you can confidently talk to developers, gather requirements, and launch your first API product.Here’s a preview of what we’ll cover in this live, cohort-based course:• What makes an API Product successful• Gathering API requirements from customers• Examples of strong API design and usability• Building a great Developer Experience as a PM• Monetizing APIs• Key metrics and KPIs for API ProductsBy the end of this course, you’ll have the skills and perspective to deliver real value and confidently guide the next generation of API-driven products.

Are you a PM looking to accelerate your journey into the world of APIs?

Build a Strong API Foundation

Gain Hands-On API Skills

Master the Business of APIs

Deliver Exceptional Developer Experiences

While you don't need API experience, it's a good idea to know PM fundamentals. 

Some Product Management Experience Required

Product Managers with no API experience who want to launch and manage winning API Products.

New API Product Managers who are transitioning into the role.

Leaders who want to hire and manage API Product Managers.

Everything you need to make your product work for agents. Designed, built, evaluated, and shipped in 3 days.

15+ years in APIs | Product Consultant for AI-Forward Companies | 3x VP PM

Cohort 9

Cohort 10

You've spent years perfecting your UI. Flowing experiences, beautiful screens, users glued to your product. Now your users are sending agents instead. The agent doesn't see your UI. It wants the most essential, irreducible form of your product's value - and if it can't get it, it moves on. To a competitor. To scraping. To telling the user it couldn't help.Your only choice is to give agents what they want: APIs, MCP servers, and the interfaces that deliver outcomes without a screen. You may have APIs, but they were built for developers who read docs and ask questions. Agents don't do that.This 3-day intensive course gets you building what agents actually need. Hands-on, not theory. You'll design agent-ready APIs, build and evaluate MCP servers, and ship an MCP App. Taught by a practitioner with the deepest background in APIs and developer products.You'll walk out as the person who's done this, not read about it. The architect who builds for humans and machines. The PM who shipped a working MCP server. The leader others come to when they need to know what's real and what's hype.

Forget how you build products. You're not building for humans anymore.

The 4 things agents want - and one they don't

Design APIs that are agent-ready

What drives MCP usability

Build two MCP Servers and test them

MCP Apps as the next product paradigm

Create an AI-Ready Roadmap for Your Organization

This is a fast-paced, hands-on course, and while you don't need to be a coder, it helps to understand HTTP basics or to have shipped an API.

Some API knowledge is required

Consider taking API Fundamentals for Product Managers first: https://maven.com/emmanuel/api-pm-fundamentals

If you need to brush up on your API skills:

We'll walk you through building with LLMs and AI Codegen tools, even if you've never used them before.

Little or no AI experience is expected

Software Architects &amp; Engineers who want high-quality, scalable tools that Agents will use long into the future.

Product Managers who want to stay ahead of the curve and quickly deliver API and MCP products that win in AI-dominated markets.

Founders &amp; Executives who want to transform their companies and fully leverage AI opportunities and a market of +1.3B users.

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