Product Design

This program is designed with the absolute beginner in mind. Meaning, there are no prerequisites or prior experience in design or tech required.

Regardless of age or background, we’ve built a learning experience to ensure your success. From the catered curriculum and hands-on exercises to one-on-one mentorship and support throughout.

What’s required*:

• Motivation to transform your career
• Interest in product design
• Written and spoken English proficiency at a B2 level or higher
• A computer (macOS, Windows, or Linux) with a webcam, microphone, and an internet connection

*Note that you will be required to invest some independent study time into familiarizing yourself with the tools you’ll use throughout the program, and learning how to use them. It is estimated that you will need to spend an additional 1-2 hours per week of extracurricular study time becoming comfortable with them.

For the Intro to Product Design Course, you’ll mainly use Marvel, in addition to others. For the Product Design Immersion Course, you’ll mainly use Figma.

As a CareerFoundry student, you’ll qualify for free access to the Figma Professional Plan.

You will also be using other tools to help you refine your designs. These tools will be available with a free trial or with a discount, which can be found on CareerFoundry’s Perks page. For further tool requirements related to specialization courses, please view their respective pages:

• UI for Designers
• Voice User Interface Design
• Frontend Development for Designers

As this varies widely, we recommend checking individual system requirements on Figma's website.

For further system requirements related to specialization courses, please view their respective pages:

• UI for Designers
• Voice User Interface Design
• Frontend Development for Designers​​​​​​​

Yes, the program is entirely asynchronous and online—so you can study when and wherever you’d like so long as you can get online and stay on track for graduation.

But this doesn’t mean the learning experience is isolated or lonely! You’ll have regular contact with your mentor, tutor, student advisor, and career specialist—as well as full access to our active student community on Slack.

The program is flexibly-paced within a 10-month duration. There are two deadlines along the way that we’ve put in place to help keep you on track for graduation.

Expect to devote a minimum of 15-20 hours per week to graduate within that maximum time frame. This is considered part-time study, and matches the default pacing of the program. If you’d like to graduate in as little as four months, you can devote 30-40 hours per week to reach that goal.

The Product Design Program offers you a complete career change package—including expert-authored curriculum, hands-on projects, personalized mentorship, and career coaching. Find out more here:

• How it works: From curriculum details to your career change team, and beyond—here are the details.
• Meet our mentors: Get to know who the CareerFoundry mentors are and how the dual-mentorship model works.
• Career services: Everything you need to know about our personalized career coaching, Job Preparation course, Career Support Center, alumni community, and more.
• Graduate outcomes: Here’s some of the work our graduates did in the program—and where they’re at today.

In addition to all of this, you can request read access to our course library—so you can study other corners of the tech world independently, with all the course materials included in your program tuition! You can ask your student advisor about this once you start the program.

Yes, we offer two payment options. You can save 5% of your total tuition by paying it up front. Alternatively, you can pay a set amount up front to reserve your place in the program, and the remainder in 10 monthly payments (regardless of when you graduate from the program).

Still not feasible for you? Book a call with a program advisor to see if you’re eligible for a customized payment plan.

While we do offer an ongoing tuition reduction to active U.S. military personnel and veterans, as well as periodic, partial scholarships/tuition reductions, we do not offer any full scholarships or funds at this time.

If you’d like to learn more about any of these offers, please reach out to a program advisor.

If you’re not happy with the program in the first 14 days from the start date, you can simply cancel for a full refund.

If you are 60% or less of the way through the program duration (not including any extensions) and need to cancel for any reason, you may be eligible for a prorated refund. For more information, see our full terms and conditions.

You will receive a signed CareerFoundry certificate when you complete the program. This will make it easy for you to share your new qualification on LinkedIn and with potential employers or clients.

While the program is not university accredited, it does undergo a rigorous quality assurance and certification process with the ZFU (Staatliche Zentralstelle für Fernunterricht)—the state body for distance learning in Germany.

This process ensures that the program meets a high stand for an excellent and effective learning experience.

On successful completion of this certification process, the program is assigned a unique approval number (7462923) which can be checked against a public register.

There are conditions that graduates need to meet in order to be eligible for the job guarantee. We’re transparent about these requirements because we want them to be easy for you to follow and because we know they genuinely help graduates succeed in their job search.

You’re eligible for the job guarantee when:

• You’ve successfully completed 100% of your CareerFoundry program as well as our free Job Preparation course.
• You’re applying to at least five relevant jobs a week.
• You live in a metropolitan area with a population above 200K people in any of the following countries: USA, Canada, European Union or EFTA countries, UK, Australia, or New Zealand (or you’re willing to relocate).
• And when you meet other qualifying criteria. Please read the full terms and conditions.

If you have any questions about the job guarantee or the eligibility criteria, simply book a call with a program advisor—they’re happy to help!

Based on the program’s comprehensive curriculum, you’ll be ready to apply for and step into a junior product design role or mid-level product design position.

Keep in mind that many job ads for product designers ask for 2+ years of experience, but it is often part of their "wishlist" rather than a requirement.

If you have transferable skills from your previous career, it’s possible to land a more senior role. Your dedicated career specialist (during the Job Preparation Course) will help you understand your transferable skills and craft the right narrative to present in your job application materials.

If you have additional questions, we’re happy to help! Just email us or book a call with a program advisor and we’ll get you the answers you need.