Strategic Product Management Brief
Learning partnerships
Program
Product ManagerFormat
Stockholm, HybridPeriod
March 2 - May 1, 2026Cost
20 000 SEKOverview
In today’s fast-moving and unpredictable business environment, the ability to lead projects with clarity, adaptability, and strategic thinking is a vital asset. The Product Manager program is designed to prepare emerging professionals to work effectively in cross-functional teams, manage change, and deliver results, while always aligning with business goals.
By working with our students, businesses gain support on real projects, from early-stage scoping and idea development to implementation planning and stakeholder communication. Students bring fresh perspectives, structured workflows, and modern tools to help organisations move forward, whether that means validating a concept, improving a process, or accelerating a strategic initiative.
Course Goals Students
- Explain how business and revenue models inform product strategy, market positioning, and return on investment.
- Apply product discovery methods to identify user needs and support data-informed product decision-making.
- Assess how Agile and Scrum methodologies can be adopted to support product development in different organisational contexts.
- Pitch strategic product concepts and recommendations to relevant stakeholders to gain alignment, engagement, and buy-in.
Project Description
This course offers a unique opportunity for students to collaborate directly with real businesses on live challenges that reflect the complexities of today’s market. Each such a project is co-designed with the client, who brings a current need, idea, or opportunity into the process, such as improving internal workflows, exploring a new service concept, or aligning cross-functional teams around a shared goal. From there, student teams take ownership of shaping and driving the project forward, applying agile methods, user insights, and strategic thinking - all in communication with the clients.
For businesses, this collaboration offers structured support in moving an initiative forward with fresh energy and a new perspective. Students are guided throughout by Hyper Island learning designers and active industry professionals who ensure quality, focus, and alignment. The process includes regular check-ins, transparent communication, and room for iteration based on ongoing feedback. While outcomes will vary depending on the scope, the emphasis is on creating tangible value: helping businesses test ideas, clarify direction, or identify new opportunities in a fast, collaborative, and insight-driven way.
In summary this partnership gives businesses access to fresh thinking and new talent while offering students a meaningful, real-world challenge. Clients benefit from structured, collaborative work that brings momentum to existing initiatives, or sparks new ones, without a heavy investment of time or resources. Meanwhile, students develop essential capabilities in leadership, communication, and solution design within a professional context.
Project outcomes vary based on the brief and scope, but typically may fall into one of these levels (or all of them if time permits):
Strategic Insights & Recommendations - students analyse your current situation (an audit) and deliver clear insights, opportunity areas, and actionable recommendations, presented in a final report or presentation.
Product or Process Improvement - students explore ways to enhance an existing product, service, or workflow around a product, offering new features, optimised processes, and tested concepts aligned with user and business needs.
New Concept Development - students design a new product, service, or digital solution from the ground up, including user journeys, prototypes, and go-to-market ideas tailored to your context.
While specific deliverables are defined by the student team in collaboration with the client, it is the students who lead the work, take ownership of the process, and shape the results. Hyper Island staff, industry leaders, and mentors provide the tools, mindset, and guidance needed to navigate complexity, but it is up to the students to drive progress, stay aligned with the brief, and deliver outcomes that create value.
Client information

How will you collaborate?
Experience based Peer-Learning
In this collaborative experience the students will apply a Design Thinking approach following the process of empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test alongside the Hyper Island Experience Based Learning process of doing, reflecting, generalising and applying. In connection with this, the client will take an active role in providing feedback-loops and anchoring the process and progress of the work to their business needs.
Meetings: The client and the student team are expected to meet at least once a week.
The Hyper Island Way
The Hyper Island Way™ is about doing. By working with clients the students will grow and find the confidence to be what’s next in the industry. This also emphasises peer-learning and exchange of experience, perspectives and knowledge between students and industry professionals.
Community Innovation
Peer-learning is the bedrock of innovative growth, sparking the kind of creativity and problem-solving that no single mind can generate on its own. By enabling the exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives, it fosters a collective wisdom that drives groundbreaking solutions. By investing in peer-learning, we're not just facilitating knowledge sharing – we're pioneering a culture of collaborative innovation.
FAQ
In a Learning Partnership companies and students meet to exchange value; the students get an opportunity to learn new skills by practical implementation of the learning goals of their coursework and the client gets project deliveries in the form of strategies, reports or production of creative material and assets. Important to remember for clients is that you will be working with students still in training, who will do their best to meet expectations within the brief, but who is still “learning by doing” and who will once the project ends, move on to their next course.
Projects are around 4-6 weeks, during this time you should be available for about 2-4 hours a week to support and touch base with students as they go and to feedback continuously. The students will alongside their project with you have a parallel learning track with workshops, seminars and similar to support and enable them to solve the challenges from the brief successfully.
You have ownership over the ideas and concepts presented by students, to further develop and implement them. An NDA will be applied to ensure sensitive business information remains tightly within the collaboration.
We ask participating companies to pay a sponsorship fee to work with our students. This allows us to fund a team of three people working with Learning Partnerships across all of our full time YH programs in Sweden; ensuring quality of project briefs for our students to get practical training in real client projects as well as supporting the clients in the collaboration. It also supports us to continuously develop our programs and ensure future talent to the industry.
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