VK Product Bootcamp
From theory to an offer in a VK product team this summer.
What awaits you
Lectures, practice, and real-life business tasks from VKontakte. You will go through the entire product development cycle and add cases to your portfolio.
- Full product immersion: Your mentors are the CPO and product department heads from VKontakte. They will share the knowledge and frameworks they apply in their daily work.
- Experience from leading experts: The best graduates will receive offers for Junior Product Manager positions at VK in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
- Opportunity to become part of the team: You will see the inner workings of a product team and can make useful connections.
- Product environment and networking.
How the program is structured
- Intensive (04.06–05.31) — Online. Over two months, you will learn how to manage an IT product — from idea to launch. Webinars, guest lectures, team work on a VK case study, and project defense.
- Bootcamp (07.06–07.19) — On-site in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Two weeks of team work on a product case study with mentor support. One week in the city and one week at an out-of-town camp (networking, workshops, final defense before top management).
Skills and topics
Strategy, experiments, roadmap, backlog, CJM, hypotheses, metrics, research, analytics.
We are waiting for you, if you are:
- A 3rd–5th year Bachelor's or Specialist's degree student, a Master's student, or a 2024–2025 graduate.
- Can think logically, analyze data, and are not afraid of working with numbers.
- Ready to participate in the on-site bootcamp stage in Moscow or St. Petersburg.
- Want to become part of the VKontakte product team in Moscow or St. Petersburg after completing the program.
Selection stages
- Registration (03.10–03.26): Fill out the application and questionnaire.
- Testing (03.27–03.29): Logic and math test.
- Results announcement (by 04.03).
- Intensive (04.06–05.31).
- Interviews (06.08–06.19).
- Bootcamp (07.06–07.19).
FAQ
- The company covers the expenses for the out-of-town camp (the second part of the bootcamp). Participants cover the costs for the first week themselves.
- The best participants will receive an offer for a Junior Product Manager position with official employment and benefits.
