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Postgraduate Diploma and MSc In Product Management

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Product Management in the AI Era

 

This postgraduate diploma delivered in partnership with TU Dublin, blends the fundamentals of product management with advanced, AI-enabled strategies to prepare mid-career professionals for strategic leadership. Participants will build core competencies in discovery, roadmap planning, metrics, and cross-functional collaboration, while learning how to leverage AI to inform decision-making, accelerate delivery, and drive measurable business impact. The program emphasizes ethical AI governance, data-driven prioritization, and the transition from practitioner to senior leadership, helping graduates navigate complex markets and lead cross-disciplinary teams with confidence.

Who should apply?

 

This program is designed for experienced product managers aiming to move into leadership roles, and senior executives looking to establish a structured product management function. It also welcomes engineers or designers transitioning into product management, business architects translating long-term roadmaps into deliverables, and founders or entrepreneurs applying product management practices to scale their business.



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PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

 

 
Join our next information session to meet Programme Director, Dr. Claire Mc Bride and hear from programme alumni:
Monday, June 22
th from 1-2pm 

  
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Key facts

 

The Postgraduate Diploma and MSc in Product Management are an on-campus programme combining  an immersive classroom learning experience with an opportunity to solve real-world challenges for your company, with live case studies, dynamic group exercises, and peer collaboration across diverse industries.

Through the programme, you will develop strategic thinking skills, build networks, and complete hands-on projects that will reshape your skills and approach to product management delivering tangible benefits for your career and your employer.

 

This Programme is for:

  1. Experienced product managers aiming to advance to leadership roles.
  2. Aspiring product managers from business analysis, solutions, or delivery roles.
  3. Senior executives establishing a structured product management function
  4. Engineers or designers transitioning into product management.
  5. Business architects translating long-term roadmaps into deliverables.
  6. Founders and entrepreneurs applying product management practices to scale their business.

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PROGRAMME MODULES

 
Strategy and Business Models
  • Develop product strategies to meet your growth challenges.
  • Identify opportunities to create differentiatiable value, and drive business model innovation.
 
Strategic Communication and Collaboration
  • Strengthen your leadership, negotiation and communication style
  • Enhance your capacity to influence stakeholders and unlock buy-in from cross-functional teams.
 
Innovation and NPD
  • Learn frameworks and workflows for innovation and new product development.
  • Develop practical, market-facing skills and go-to-market strategies.
 
Analytics for Strategic Decision Making
  • Learn to apply data analytics techniques to inform and shape high-level strategic decisions, linking insights to strategic objectives.
  • Develop the ability to design, critique, and communicate analytics solutions assessing the business impact and implementation challenges of analytics-driven strategies.
 
Product Portfolio Management
  • Learn to evaluate, prioritize, and select product initiatives using formal frameworks and financial/strategic metrics, aligning the portfolio with strategy and available resources.
  • Develop governance and optimization skills for managing a portfolio across its lifecycle.
Applied Design Thinking
  • Employ design thinking methods to match market needs with technological and business feasibility.
  • Accelerate problem-solving and discovery using structured, repeatable protocols.
 
Business Case and Strategic Pricing
  • Master the fundamentals of pricing.
  • Build evidence-based business cases.
 
Leadership and Personal Development
  • Understand personality traits and their impact.
  • Explore leadership strategies.
 
Product Management at Scale
  • Assimilate strategies and frameworks for scaling products and platforms to support multiple teams and products.
  • Data-driven, cross-functional execution at scale
 
Applied Project
  • Applied company project to address significant business challenges
  • Incorporates frameworks for analysis and implementation of recommendations
 
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ELIGIBILITY AND COSTS

Academic Eligibility
Participants must have a Level 8 Honours Degree in a cognate discipline with a minimum of a 2:2.
 
For candidates who do not meet this minimum entry requirement, the college operates a Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) scheme whereby applicants may be considered based on relevant work or other experiences.

For applicants whose first language is not English, please note the English language entry requirements English language entry requirements.
 
Funding Eligibility

Participants must be resident in the Republic of Ireland.

Participants must be employed by a private company registered in the Republic of Ireland.

Participants must be working in a Product Management or adjacent role, for example: Product Marketing, Product Owner, Engineering Manager, UX/Design, Data Analytics, or Technical Programme Management. 

Applicants who do not meet our funding criteria, please contact us to discuss alternative options.  
 
Fees
Full course fee: €7,600 
You pay: €3,950 With Technology Ireland Digital Skillnet Subsidy

Subsidised fees are only available to eligible applicants.



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HEAR FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS

"I have used the roadmap learning - the product management discipline in my part of the organisation is biased towards day-to-day business and client management rather than innovation and research so the Masters has been helpful." 


Leonard Sutton, Executive Director, JP Morgan 

“With the goal to create new and differentiated product offerings, each module has direct and practical applicability. The programme learning continues to deliver benefits to me, the product team, my employer and most importantly – our customers.” 


Sean Finlay, Head of Product Management, AMCS Group 

 
 
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Register your interest for 2026.

Date

Start Date:

October 2026
 Duration  

Duration:

1 years part-time
 Delivery  

Delivery:

On campus (TU Dublin, Aungier Street)
 Fees  

Subsidised Fees:

€3,950 
 Progression


Progression:

1 year MSc

 
Join us at our information session on Monday, May 25th from 1-2pm to find out more.

  
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