Eight weeks leading a real product team.
After the live classes, you join a MustardHQ studio pod with a designer and two engineers. Together you take one product from brief to production, with real users and real numbers.
- Length
- 8 weeks
- Your pod
- 1 PM, 1 designer, 2 engineers
- You leave with
- A live product
- Included in tuition
- Yes
8 weeks building with our studio
Hiring managers have seen plenty of made-up case studies. In the residency you work with our engineering team to design, build, and launch a working app that real people use.
Join a pod and get your brief
You join a 4-person studio pod: you as the PM fellow, a MustardHQ lead UI/UX designer, and 2 full-stack engineers.
Write the PRD and plan sprints
You write the requirements, groom the backlog with your developers, and agree on a Definition of Done.
Build
Four weeks of sprints: daily Slack standups, reviewing pull requests, triaging bugs, and keeping scope in check.
Launch
Deploy to a live URL, onboard real users, and confirm your analytics work in Amplitude or PostHog.
Who you’ll work with
You, the PM fellow
Set the product direction, talk to users, write the PRD, prioritise the backlog, and run the sprints.
Product designer
A MustardHQ designer who turns your requirements into flows, a component library, and Figma prototypes.
Frontend engineer
Builds the interface from the designs using Next.js, React, and Tailwind.
Backend engineer
Builds the APIs, database, and authentication, and deploys the product to production.