General Management today demands more than just operational oversight—it requires strategic vision, customer-centric innovation, and the ability to drive digital transformation. Our Executive MBA in Product Leadership equips you with cross-functional skills spanning business strategy, technology, and product innovation. Unlike traditional general management programs, IPL’s EMBA prepares you to lead growth initiatives, manage high-impact portfolios, and drive P&L outcomes, which are key to modern CXO roles.

The Executive MBA in Product management & leadership program at the Institute of Product Leadership is an accredited, government-approved formal degree program. It’s a UGC-approved, formal MBA degree program jointly offered by a partner university in India. Sixteen cohorts have graduated from the Executive MBA program and three more cohorts are going through the program currently. More details about each cohort can be found on this link – IPL Alumni – 4000+ Global Network

The Executive MBA in Product Management & Leadership offered is an 18-month program with an additional 2 months for industry internship, allowing the learners to become eligible for doing a PhD in future.
It has face-to-face sessions on the campus on alternate weekends from 9 AM to 4 PM. One can complete the courses and project work as early as 18 months.

Product Leadership goes beyond product management. It’s about leading digital innovation, customer experience strategy, and business outcomes. Whether you’re in marketing, technology, operations, or consulting, understanding how to lead digital products and platforms is a critical capability for future CXOs. Today, product leaders are driving business strategy and leading company-wide transformation initiatives.

Our program stands out due to its blend of practical experiential learning, industry expert faculty, and strong focus on current and emerging trends in product management.

Yes. The Executive MBA in Product Management & Leadership is designed for high-potential senior and mid-career professionals who are looking to accelerate their career paths to C-suite and senior leadership roles. It gives you a practical and hands-on engagement with business management, processes, techniques, and frameworks that you can immediately apply at your workplace. Through the course, you will learn the new-age skills required to accelerate your career and contribute positively to your organization. The leadership assessments and personalized executive coaching that form a part of the curriculum will help refine the leader in you. At the end of the program, you will acquire strategic decision-making skills and leading cross-functional skills that help you become a senior decision-maker in your organization.

You can watch this video to learn more about the Executive MBA Impact.

A specialized program is designed for orbit shift, but it may not be for everyone.

The Executive MBA program at IPL is ideal for senior working professionals who want to take on broader management responsibilities to advance their careers in roles that are growing in demand – Product, Data, and Leadership roles.

We recommend that you take the time to determine your career path, access all the parameters that make a B-School the right fit as per your career aspirations, and then find the fastest vehicle to get there.

Talk to your career counselor to know more.

The Executive MBA is a UGC-accredited degree program that is specially designed for working professionals, business leaders, and managers who want to fast-track their careers into executive roles and sharpen their business and leadership skills. According to the UGC guidelines, you need at least a postgraduate degree to pursue a PhD program. The IPL’s Executive MBA in product management & leadership program, which is a postgraduate degree along with an Industry Internship, gives you the eligibility for doing a PhD.

You don’t need to have product management experience before you join the Executive MBA in Product Leadership, and if you do, it certainly will help you accelerate and develop that skill further.
The intent of the program is to build foundational skills in finance, user experience, agile, product management, product marketing, and growth hacking, and to create a really well-rounded personality so you can become a true product leader.

Product management is also not just in a title, but it also has to be understood in the role. At the end of the day, it’s a customer-facing, innovation-driven role where you’re involved in developing all the way from an idea to validation to productizing it to launching it.

Modern-day executives are expected to rally & motivate teams towards a common purpose, influence people from cross-functional teams, convince key stakeholders like internal teams, customers, partners, and investors of their point of view, make informed and contextual decisions, negotiate relentlessly and manage conflicts. These require some specific leadership skills like:

• Executive Presence
• Art of Storytelling
• Facilitation Skills for decision-making 
• Influence without authority
• Negotiation & Conflict Management skills

Yes! We do have Executive MBA students who make the alternate weekend commute from cities within easy flying distance from Bangalore. We can put you in touch with some of them to explore the reality of making this commute. Talk to us.

IPL offers an excellent Executive MBA in Product Management and Leadership that draws cohorts from the top MNCs and technology companies. On-campus classes take place on alternate weekends at one of the Bangalore campuses. We can put you in touch with some of our senior Executive MBA Alumni who chose IPL over other top B-Schools.

Talk to us to learn more about the key decision-making parameters. You can also Download the Executive MBA Brochure for more information.

Program Fee is pre-approved for up to 100% through education loans with major banks. Upon receiving the admission letter, you can apply at the pre-defined contacts with the banks, or you can also avail of the trimester-wise instalment options, the details of which will be described in the admission letter.

The Executive MBA program at IPL offers on-campus classes every alternate weekend, allowing for a minimal weekly commitment of 10-15 hours for projects, assignments, and online readings. Designed for busy executives, IPL recognizes the value of your time. The curriculum prioritizes speed and momentum, understanding the need for flexibility due to work and family commitments. HD video recordings of live classes are available within 48 hours on the Learning Management System, providing convenient access anytime, anywhere. Which is  particularly beneficial for reviewing past classes. For more information on program benefits Download the Executive MBA Brochure here, or Talk to us.

Executive MBAs are part-time only in the sense of the way the classes are scheduled. Typically, Executive MBAs and part-time MBAs have classes scheduled over the weekend. The fundamental difference between a part-time MBA course and an Executive MBA course lies in the basis of its curriculum design and target audience.

A part-time MBA typically targets freshers or professionals who are relatively new to the industry, their experience of the industry being nil or negligible. The duration of the course may vary anywhere between two and three years.

IPL’s Executive MBA in Product Leadership is designed for mid-career and senior professionals who are looking for career acceleration into leadership roles or to transition into product management roles. It has a laser-focused curriculum and a fixed duration of 18 months + 2 months for industry projects wherein the participants are molded into industry leaders.

No. We DON’T expect professionals to quit or break from their current work. In fact, if you are a working professional you have a higher chance of getting accepted!

The program does expect an additional commitment of 10-15 hours a week for project work, assignments, and online supplemental pre-readings (for example, Harvard Business Cases, simulations, etc.) It is flexible by design but still has enough rigour to ensure applied learning. Please visit the Executive MBA in Product Leadership page to get more details.

Here are some of the significant outcomes of the Executive MBA program

– You develop strategic decision-making skills and leading cross-functional skills
– You gain a global business perspective with an end-to-end understanding of the business process
– At the end of the program, you will have the ability to participate as well as lead and manage new ventures.
– Increase in salary is dependent on various factors apart from the completion of the Executive MBA program itself. It largely depends on the kind of industry that you are transitioning to, the prior experience you have in the domain you are moving into, and the leadership qualities you possess.

Alumni research indicates an increase in excess of 30% of their financial plan within six months of graduating.

Executive MBA in Product Leadership is laser-focused on building the actionable skills necessary for accelerated careers in the product industry. Here are three fundamental ways the Executive MBA is different from other programs:

1. Pedagogy –“Learning by Doing”
2. Global Practitioners as Faculty – “Learning from People who DO (not just know)”
3. Curriculum – Relevant, New Age and Industry Career Path focused.

To access our comprehensive blog detailing the distinctions between our Executive MBA in Product Leadership and other programs such as PGP, PGX, and PGDs, please click here

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Product Leadership goes beyond product management. It’s about leading digital innovation, customer experience strategy, and business outcomes. Whether you’re in marketing, technology, operations, or consulting, understanding how to lead digital products and platforms is a critical capability for future CXOs. Today, product leaders are driving business strategy and leading company-wide transformation initiatives.