Industry-Relevant Courses Designed To Accelerate Your Career

Our on-demand course offerings provide you with access to high-quality educational content from top experts in their fields. They are designed to help you learn at your own pace, on your own schedule, and from the comfort of your own home.

Learn In-Demand Skills

Equip yourself to succeed in a career in tech with our courses in product management, cloud computing, and engineering leadership.

Earn Resume-Worthy Credentials

Prove your skills and earn globally-recognized credentials that demonstrate your expertise to current and future employers.

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Upskill with Advancing Women in Tech.

Learn skills desired by hiring managers at the world's top cloud and engineering providers with on-demand offerings in product management, cloud product management, and engineering management, created by Advancing Women in Tech, sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and available to learners everywhere via Coursera.

Real World
Product Management

Discover if a career in product management is for you as you develop the skills to succeed as a PM at tech companies or a startup!

This program is ACE® approved— when you complete it, you can earn up to 6 college credits.

The Business of Product Management I

Learn to excel in product management roles while learning directly from industry-leading product managers and real-world case studies.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Insist on the Highest Standards. Understand the PM discipline, famous product managers and their accomplishments, and how you can make your mark.

  • Ownership. PMs own their products and think long-term. Learn how to keep your sights set on the long-term using tools like the PRD and PRFAQ.

  • Customer Obsession. Learn why successful PMs start from the customer and work backwards to the product. Cultivate your intuition for this process.

  • Think Big. PMs communicate a bold direction that inspires results. Think and act big by selling MVPs and communicating opportunity to investors.

The Art and Science of Product Management

Learn how Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitch PMs and lead and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of UX designers, software engineers, AI/ML engineers. Plus, practice real PM interview questions asked by Microsoft, Google, and Amazon!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Leading Designers.Learn basic design concepts. Understand differences between designers and PMs, and how those differences promote synergy.

  • The AI-ML-Powered PM. Learn the difference between AI, ML, and deep learning. Spot examples of how AI might supercharge your products or PM work.

  • Leading Engineers.Learn basic software engineering concepts. Understand differences between engineers and PMs, and how to promote synergy.

  • Ace PM Technical Interview Questions. Use basic engineering concepts to answer real PM interview questions from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.

The Business of Product Management II

Learn to excel in product management roles while learning directly from industry-leading product managers and real-world case studies.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Invent and Simplify. PMs require innovation. Explain how startups unseat powerful incumbents and how those incumbents stay relevant.

  • Deliver Results. Increase customer retention, loyalty, and advocacy; monetize across the customer journey; show success with financial statements.

  • Learn and Be Curious. Learn about KPIs, Google-style OKRs, and Facebook-style North Stars. Master the statistical underpinnings of A/B/n testing. 

Acing the Product Management Interview

Prepare to impress in your product management interviews by taking this course. You'll learn tips to showcase your skills and PM knowledge directly from the experts who hire and promote top PMs, and practice for your interview using real PM interview questions

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Earn Trust. Learn where most job opportunities are found, how to network effectively, and how to continue networking throughout your career.

  • Hire and Develop the Best. Leaders raise the bar with every hire. Learn how to meet that bar by practicing real PM interview questions.

  • Interviewer Sense. Nancy, having interviewed many PM candidates, explains her thoughts and strategies during mock Google and Amazon interviews.

  • It’s Always Day One. Learn about your next opportunities for learning, how AWIP can help advance your career, and how to build your brand.

“The material in this course was eye-opening for me. I have recently been named Product Manager in my company, but have never worn that title before. I needed to come up to speed very quickly and this material was helpful.”

“This course provides a wonderful exposure to the fundamentals of product management, and goes through detailed examples of skills that you will require to understand your customers (how do define target personas, map customer journeys), do competitive analysis (TAM/SAM/SOM market sizing, competitive benchmark) and invites speakers from reputable organizations. It was very useful!”

“This course provided me with the focus that I was looking for. I have been in the tech industry for 20 yrs and been wanting to switch from a Channel Development/Strategic Alliances role into a Product Management role for a few years so this course has been perfect for my needs.”

Real World
Cloud Product Management

Understand the technology and business of the cloud and prepare for the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification exam with this specialization, sponsored Amazon Web Services (AWS) and available to learners everywhere via Coursera. 

This program is ACE® approved—when you complete the specialization, you can earn up to 6 college credits. 

Cloud Business and Technology

Learn real-world technical and business skills for product managers or any other job family involved in the rapidly expanding cloud computing industry. Ace the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Explain why cloud is the greatest "gold rush" since the invention of the client server model, and how it can accelerate your career.

  • Explain "cloud velocity" by comparing cloud vs. non-cloud businesses, technical architecture diagrams, and financial and operational impact.

  • Understand the purpose of the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam, determine if it is right for you, and let AWIT help you prepare.

  • Understand the most popular technologies today, including containerization, serverless, AI/ML, and blockchain, and how to manage those business.

Security, AWS Well-Architected Framework

Learn real-world technical and business skills for product managers or any job family involved in the rapidly expanding cloud computing industry. Ace the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Understand cloud security, the Shared Responsibility Model, and the Well-Architected Framework.

  • Explain how networking practices deliver information and content to customers around the world at scale.

  • Finalize your preparation for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.

Managing, Innovating, Pricing

Learn real-world technical and business skills for product managers or any job family involved in the rapidly expanding cloud computing industry. Ace the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Explain common approaches to compute, containers, serverless, distributed, and application integration.

  • Differentiate among different databases and analytics tools.

  • Understand the concepts of cloud management, governance, machine learning, and quantum computing.

  • Explain how to manage cloud costs (as a customer) and set pricing (as a product manager).

“The best course to learn Cloud Computing”

“So far this is the most informational and encouraging Cloud computing class I have encountered! I only took two days to finish the whole class and registered for the exam in 12 days. Thank you so much for the great work!!”

”Excellent technical explanations and wonderful motivational messages from the leaders”

Real World
Engineering Management

Learn software engineering management using the same practices as Amazon Web Services (AWS), with comparisons to the practices at Google and Microsoft!  

Leadership Principles for Software Engineers

Develop the skills and mental models that the world's best engineering managers apply to attract and retain world-class engineering talent.

Building Products at Global Scale

earn the skills that transcend the boundaries of your team and enable top tech companies to deliver the most popular and viral products and applications used by billions of people billions of times per day.

Upon course completion, you will understand what world-class software engineering organizations expect of their cross-functional managers and leaders.

Inspiring Peak Performance
on Technical Teams

Learn how to lead each individual team member, increasing their personal best performance, and your team's overall performance, day after day.

Develop the skills and mental models that the world's best engineering managers apply to turn their new hires into world-class engineers.

Meet our instructors

  • Nancy Wang

    General Manager, Amazon Web Services | Founder, AWIT

  • Gordon Yu

    Technical Program Manager @ AWS Data Protection; General Counsel @ Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT)

  • Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec

    Vice President, AWS Object and Block Storage

  • Boyd Bischoff

    Director, AWS Software Development

  • Erin Yang

    Chief Technologist, Workday Ventures

  • Dan Scheinman

    Angel Investor in Enterprise Tech

“I definitely feel more confident. And, what is precious, I feel "infected", inspired to learn more about the field.”

Daria Rolina

“Thank you Nancy Wang for this amazing course […] where I have learned an important rule "Successful PMs start from the customer and work backward to the product"”

Husam Wahbeh

“I would like to thank Nancy Wang for this amazing specialization and her contributions to the establishment of Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT). It’s very exciting to come across a foundation whose vision is to create equality for women by giving them the right skill sets and executive mentorship they need to succeed.”

Emel Serengil