After helping over 1200 Insight Fellows become data scientists, data engineers and AI engineers across the US, we’re excited to announce that we’re expanding our efforts to enable top product managers to transition to data product management roles. The Insight Data Product Management Fellows Program will start this summer in Silicon Valley and provide experienced PMs with a passion for data an avenue to join top company building AI-enabled products as a Data PM.

This tuition-free, full-time, 7-week fellowship is ideally suited for existing product managers, as well as product-focused data scientists, engineers, founders and MBAs with a strong technology background and desire to work as a Data PM. Insight Data PM Fellows will spend the fellowship building products with a team of data scientists, data engineers and AI engineers, while meeting leaders in data and product functions from across Silicon Valley, including teams from LinkedIn, Lyft, Yelp, eBay, Facebook, Salesforce, GitHub, Uber, Google, Cloudera, Box, and Twitter. At the end of the fellowship they will interview with top teams hiring for data product management roles.

Top technology companies are hiring data product managers who can guide teams of data scientists, software engineers and designers as they build mission-critical AI products, data infrastructure and analytics platforms. Due to the accelerated pace of machine learning research and the ever-expanding ecosystem of data infrastructure technologies, there is a critical shortage of technical, product-minded talent who can orchestrate these efforts to deliver value to users. The Insight Data PM Fellows Program will bridge the gap between being a traditional PM and building cutting edge AI and data-focused products.

For example, Data PMs build revolutionary new products by organizing teams of ML researchers and engineers who build, optimize, scale, and integrate new research results. Data PMs partner with analytics-focused data scientists to mine user behavior to target the right gaps in the product and market, and work with machine learning (ML) focused data scientists to quickly test data-driven modeling solutions. And finally, to handle these processes at scale, Data PMs enable data engineers to build the right infrastructure and deliver robust data pipelines.

If you’re a PM excited to tackle problems like these on top product teams, we encourage you to apply to be an Insight Fellow. Applications are now open for the in-person, full-time, 7-week Data PM fellowship in Silicon Valley starting in late May 2018 — the program is free and need-based scholarships will be provided to assist with living and moving expenses.

— Jeremy Karnowski & Jake Klamka