PLP
Product Launchpad: Exposure to Product Management
Product Launchpad: Exposure to Product Management
About
Formerly known as PME/PM1101E, students will be offered the opportunity to pick up fundamental skills in product management in six weeks - including user interviews, prototyping, product metrics and crafting Product Requirements Documents (PRDs). This will culminate in an Internal Product Competition at the end of the programme, where students will work in groups to ideate new solutions to address the challenges faced by existing products today in our ever-changing business landscape.
Our Programme Iterations
With the success of our flagship programme, we were fortunate to be able to successfully carry out multiple iterations of PLP. Check out the respective pages below for more!
With our inaugural run held at ShopBack Campus, our students were given the opportunity to explore both existing products as well as ideating new ones to solve real-world problems in our ever-changing business landscape.
Continuing the momentum from our first run, our second iteration features an exclusive collaboration with SMU Product Club, as well as the long-awaited Internal Product Competition held at Carousell Campus, as our students focus on improving existing products.
Kicking off our second academic year, our flagship programme is further enhanced with a new instructor from StarHub, as well as an improved Teaching Assistant system to support our student participants.
Now formally known as Product Launchpad (PLP), our latest iteration features a dynamic, student-led approach, all while being hosted and supported by senior product managers from PayPal Singapore, guaranteeing a high-impact learning and development experience.
Our Testimonials
Hear from some of our former participants on how PLP has benefitted their prospective careers in product management!
"Overall, this experience working on such an abstract case study in a domain I was not very familiar with (FinTech) reminded me how important it is to ask the right questions. I definitely expanded my perspective when it comes to building products for a global market, and learnt so much about how to make and justify your decisions, something difficult, but an essential part of a PM’s day-to-day! Learning from the PayPal PM mentors only reinforced my interest in and admiration for PM, teaching me lessons I’ll carry forward into every product challenge ahead."
Business Artificial Intelligence Systems
"Product Launchpad sharpened my ability to think like a product manager under real-world constraints. I gained hands-on exposure to problem discovery, prototyping, testing, prioritisation, roadmapping, and stakeholder management. I especially valued learning directly from PayPal product manager mentors and NUS Product Club curriculum executives, as well as collaborating with like-minded peers."
Business Analytics
"My experience with PLP has been nothing but enriching. It taught me the fundamentals of product management and made me rethink how products are actually developed, especially how critical it is to define the right problem statement through user research before ideating solutions. PLP is challenging but incredibly eye-opening, and it has motivated me to explore this field even further. If you are interested in product management or building meaningful things, you should definitely join!"
Computer Science & Mathematics
"After hearing about PLP, I was really excited to interact with industry professionals and gain insights into how they perform as Product Managers. I was keen on learning more about the day to day experience and the challenges they faced when learning the trade. The overall experience really helped to me to reinforce my interest in Product Management and motivate me to pursue a career in it."
Mechanical Engineering
"The PLP experience has propelled my interest as a complete beginner in the product space. The opportunity to collaborate with students with various backgrounds and seasoned product managers in the industry, the course has given me a solid grasp of product fundamentals in a short period."
Business Administration
"PLP has provided a beginner friendly way to learn about product management, and has also been able to give access to a community of like-minded people who are interested in product, providing networking opportunities. Through the sharings by actual product managers in various industries, it has provided us a realistic glimpse into how product managers think, and how to break into product management as a student."
Computer Science