Build Your Technical Depth as a Product Manager

Position for more senior and rewarding technical product manager roles globally by filling your technical skill gaps.

Learners Persona

  • Non-technical product managers looking to build their technical fluency
  • Product managers with fundamental technical skills moving into technical PM  roles
  • PMs moving into highly technical companies (APIs, Cloud Computing, AI, ML companies)
  • Transitioning as an engineer into Product management

Prerequisites

  • Already worked as a product manager in at least one company

What you'll learn

Understand Key Components of Software Applications
Software Architecture
DevOps fundamentals
System Design
AI fundamentals
Collaboration with engineering teams

How you will learn

100% Virtual Session

Learn through virtual live sessions with industry experts  and catch up anytime with recorded sessions.

Expert-led sessions

Every session is a perfect blend of learning and practical activities with your peers led by proven industry experts

Recognized Badges

Treford Alumni work in leading companies across Africa, Europe, and North America.

Project-Based

Work on weekly projects with your peers and an individual capstone project to build your portfolio.

Resource Kit

Access job-aid resources like templates, cheat sheets, and toolkits to support your learning beyond the sessions.

Post Program Support

Stay supported even after graduation with career guidance, mentorship, and access to our growing alumni community.

Curriculum

In this module, you will learn how to build essential technical literacy by understanding core components of modern software applications, from web and mobile interfaces to cloud infrastructure and security fundamentals.

Learning Objectives

  • Analyze the architecture of web applications, mobile apps, and cloud systems
  • Evaluate security protocols (HTTPS, encryption) and their impact on product decisions.
  • Understand components of software applications (frontend, backend, APIs, and databases).
  • Understand technical product development lifecycle.
  • Understand native vs hybrid for mobile development.
  • Understand templates vs full custom build.
  • Understand cloud server architecture and how it supports scalability and reliability.

In this module, you will deep dive into software architecture patterns, technology stacks, and infrastructure decisions that directly impact product performance, scalability, and development velocity.

Learning Objectives

  • Compare frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue), backend frameworks (Python, Node.Js, Java, Golang) and their product implications.
  • Design DevOps strategies that align with product roadmaps.
  • Understand performance optimization techniques for scalability and efficiency.
  • Understand API design principles (REST, gRPC).
  • Understand database strategies (SQL, NoSQL, caching).
  • Evaluate backend architecture decisions (microservices vs monolith trade-offs).
  • Understand ETL processes and data warehouses.
  • Understand the concept of CI/CD pipeline management.
  • Understand infrastructure decisions (cloud vs on-premise).

This module will help you develop a strategic mindset for API products, Master API product management including performance optimization, integration strategies and creating technical requirements that bridge product vision with engineering execution.

Learning Objectives

  • Analyze API types (Public, Private, Partner) and their business impact.
  • Navigate API architecture and understand endpoints, methods, authentication, and error handling through practical testing.
  • Identify API opportunities in your industry and develop user personas for developer audience.
  • Design API strategies that support product scalability and user experience
  • Optimize API performance through caching, payload management, and latency reduction.
  • Understand third-party API integration strategies.

Master the art of developer-centric design by creating compelling documentation, intuitive interfaces, seamless onboarding experiences, and implementing data-driven API product management through analytics, performance monitoring, and security frameworks.

Learning Objectives

  • Create developer-friendly documentation and portals that reduce time-to-first-success and encourage adoption.Design onboarding flows that quickly demonstrate API value and keep developers engaged.Define and track key API metrics (usage, performance, error rates) to guide product decisions.Apply core security and compliance practices (authentication, rate limiting, GDPR essentials) to build trust and protect users.

In this module, you will learn how to develop system design thinking to make informed architectural decisions, understand trade-offs between scalability and consistency, and design resilient systems that support product growth.

Learning Objectives

  • Apply core system design principles to solve real-world product scaling challenges
  • Evaluate trade-offs between availability, consistency, and scalability (CAP theorem) in practical product scenarios.
  • Design fault-tolerant systems using event-driven architecture patterns
  • Select appropriate architecture and data strategies (monolith vs microservices, SQL vs NoSQL, caching) for product growth.
  • Identify and optimize performance bottlenecks through monitoring, partitioning, and scaling approaches.

In this module, you will learn how to navigate the AI product landscape by understanding machine learning fundamentals, making build-vs-buy decisions, and managing operational challenges while ensuring ethical AI implementation.

Learning Objectives

  • Evaluate AI/ML opportunities using build-vs-buy frameworks, data readiness assessment, and cost-benefit analysis
  • Design end-to-end AI integration workflows from problem definition to deployment, including testing, monitoring, and maintenance
  • Leverage AI APIs and large models (e.g., GPT, Gemini, Hugging Face) to accelerate product development while balancing trade-offs in performance, scalability, and cost.
  • Apply ethical and compliance principles (bias mitigation, privacy, PII handling, GDPR) to ensure responsible and trustworthy AI adoption.

In this module, you will learn the art of collaborating with diverse technical teams, facilitate effective communication between stakeholders, and lead technical decision-making processes that align with product strategy.

Learning Objectives

  • Facilitate productive collaboration between frontend, backend, DevOps, data science, and AI/ML teams
  • Translate business requirements into technical specifications across different engineering disciplines
  • Lead technical decision-making processes that balance business needs with technical constraints

Where our Facilitators work

Learn live with industry experts

Bayo Opesanya
Engineering Manager
Sophia Abubakar
Technical Product Leader

Chiedozie Ike

Lifecycle Marketing Expert

Precious Dahunsi

Product Marketing Expert for SaaS Products

Princewill Akuma

Marketing Leader

Ebuka Chidube

Growth and Digital Marketing Expert

Bukayo Ewuoso

Performance Marketing Expert

Oluwole Adeosun

Performance Marketing Expert

Oluwapelumi Oyetimehin

Marketing Leader

Olumide Adaramoye

Lifecycle Marketing Expert

Everest Nwaigwe

Data Driven Marketing Expert

Seun Adeola

Growth Leader & Operator

Key Stats

Technical Product Managers have proven to earn way more than their non-technical counterparts globally
Treford insights
The AI Product wave has led to demand for highly technical and data-driven product managers-
Treford insights
Technical Product Managers earn more than non-technical product managers due to scarcity of highly technical PMs
Glassdoor
Technical product managers tend to have way more options and transition into companies in other regions more seamlessly than their non-technical peers
Treford insights
For companies building products with high technical depths, being highly technical as a product manager is a minimum requirement
Treford insights

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Alumni Reviews

Feyisayo Adekunle
Content Marketing Bootcamp
Big shout out to the Temsi x Treford scholarship opportunity and the amazing mentorship journey incorporated in the experience, they were part of what brought my journey alive in tech today.
Ope Soladoye
Content Marketing Bootcamp
My transformation began when I applied for the bootcamp. Before I even completed it, a recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn. My bootcamp case study, the knowledge and the skills I had acquired at the bootcamp helped me to land the job. Treford is truly for everyone.
Kayode Odesanya
Product Manager, Busha
I have been building products for a while but I figured I needed to fill a knowledge gap in strategy and scaling products in the market. The bootcamp curriculum piqued my interest and I enrolled for it. The live product case studies from the facilitators helped me internalise the learning and I could immediately apply them to the product we are building.

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Success Metrics

Program KPIs

  • 💼 Job promotion rate within 6 months:

    25%

  • 🎉Average skill assessment improvement:

    60+ points

  • 💸 Salary increase within 12 months:

    15% average

  • 😍 Alumni referral rate:

    40%

Participant Outcomes

  • 🔥 Completion rate

    90%

  • 🥳 Satisfaction score

    85%

  • 👏🏾 Implement learnings within 30 days

    75%

  • 🎯 50% achieve measurable ROI improvement

    within 90 days

FAQs

This program is ideal for non-technical product managers, founders, and PMs preparing for more senior roles who want to build real technical confidence. If you’re often in the room with engineers and feel like you’re not speaking the same language  or you’re leading complex products but relying too heavily on your tech team, this program is for you. It’s designed to help you lead with clarity, ask better questions, and make smarter technical decisions without needing a coding background.

While general PM courses focus on product strategy, user research, or stakeholder management, this program goes deep into the technical layer of building products where many PMs struggle. It’s a focused experience to help you bridge the gap between business and engineering.

Yes, it’s built for working professionals. Each week, you’ll join a live workshop, access on-demand video modules, and engage in peer discussions, case studies, and hands-on activities. Expect around 6–10 hours of commitment per week, with flexibility to learn on your own schedule

Software architecture patterns, DevOps basics, API design, system‑scaling principles, and AI integration fundamentals.

Yes, upon successful completion of the program

Absolutely. We focus on concept-driven, non‑coding approaches that let you grasp software architecture, DevOps, and APIs without writing code.

Definitely. You’ll learn to translate business needs into clear specifications, run effective design reviews, and lead cross‑functional engineering, data science, and DevOps teams.

You’ll learn to analyze architecture diagrams, draft technical requirement documents, design API strategies, and facilitate cross-functional decision making. These tools are immediately applicable, helping you drive clarity and alignment in your product teams.

Through hands-on exercises and real world case studies, you’ll practice breaking down business objectives into actionable technical tasks, ensuring alignment across product, engineering, and business teams, and reducing costly misunderstandings.

Thank you for your interest, we would be delighted to answer any questions. Please email [email protected] or drop a message via WhatsApp.

$300

First Session Starts

March 28, 2026
Duration: 6 weeks

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