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Comprehensive Cohort-Based Programs
Membership includes participation in all of our cohorts offered throughout the year during the spring, summer, and fall. We offer 4 or 6 week programs, each built and led by a leading tech executive to help you solve today’s greatest business challenges and apply what you learn immediately.
This fall we're offering 19 live programs to help you level up in your career. See below for more info on the live programs available this fall. To participate, apply to become a member today.
What to Expect From a Cohort
Formatted to Help You Grow
Programs are 4 or 6 weeks in length, part-time, virtual, and intense. Each is designed to help you tackle a key business problem
Built & Led by Executives
We distill frontier knowledge from executives at companies like HubSpot, Meta, Tinder, Uber, and more.
Apply What You Learn
Instead of memorizing concepts or gathering certificates, our actionable content is designed to help ensure you apply the material immediately.
Live Case Studies with Peers
You don’t have to go it alone. You’ll explore live case studies from thought leaders at the fastest-growing companies alongside a vetted community of peers.
Select the program that best matches your experience and your company's growth challenges.
No program is a prerequisite for any other, so choose what’s most relevant to your circumstances.
“Reforge was one of the most productive, practical, and useful learning experiences of my life. I feel like I got year one of an MBA for the price of books and materials.”
Katie Clark, Sr. Director, Growth and Operations @ IDEO
Marketing Programs
Marketing Strategy
While the marketing domains of brand, product, and growth are effective on their own, they’re even more powerful when used together. Learn how to drive compounding growth by building and executing an integrated marketing strategy across these three domains. In this program, you’ll discover how to inform your brand strategy and distribution, bring your products to market, and explore the key functions of growth marketing that can improve acquisition, retention, and monetization.
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Growth Marketing
Many growth marketers begin their careers in roles with a narrower scope, encompassing just a few of the components that make up growth marketing. Yet, driving the most impact out of your growth model requires the ability to leverage a diverse portfolio of channels, campaigns, strategies, and tactics. Learn how to stand up and develop a growth marketing strategy to achieve next-level outcomes for your business.
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New! Brand Marketing
When it comes to brand marketing, the tide is turning. The most successful tech companies recognize that brand marketing is not optional; it’s a lever capable shaping business strategy. Yet, for most early career brand marketers, developing the necessary skills to succeed in this discipline remains an uphill battle. Learn the systems, tools, and frameworks to deliver impact through brand marketing in the world of product and growth.
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NEW! Marketing Leadership
Many marketing leaders focus on developing a cohesive strategy, but neglect to focus on how to scale their team, processes, and themselves to execute on it. In this program, we’ll share helpful tools, frameworks, and processes, focusing on four key components of delivery: managing marketing work, building your org, developing your team, and positioning yourself for success.
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Engineering Programs
Technical Strategy
Gain a practical toolkit to shape your company strategy so you can drive more impact. Learn how to balance a portfolio of engineering work, optimize it based on company strategy, generate innovative ideas and assess tradeoffs more effectively, and ultimately execute strategically to ensure technology best supports the company strategy.
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Engineering Management
Become an effective engineering leader who delivers reliable and impactful output. To succeed as managers, engineering leaders must build upon the skills that made them excel as individual contributors. From knowing which trade-offs to make to reducing fire drills, you’ll learn how to effectively manage engineering work, stakeholders, your team, and yourself.
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Product Programs
Product Strategy
Building, communicating, and executing a product strategy. Understand and sequence different types of product work while increasing your influence and gaining confidence as a product leader.
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Scaling Product Delivery
The art and science of shipping products at scale. Beautifully orchestrate teams as you validate ideas, scope projects, and hit deadlines while building exceptional products.
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Product Leadership
Develop high-performing teams and your own leadership style. Avoid micromanagement and create a winning culture that improves individual and group performance.
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User Insights for Product Decisions
You will spend the rest of your career making decisions based on customer feedback. "Talking to users" isn't enough. Learn to carefully scope your decision and use qualitative and quantitative research to build better products.
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Product Management Foundations
Build a foundational understanding of the product manager role, and learn the tools and strategies to succeed as a product manager.
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Mastering Product Management
Level up your product management abilities by mastering critical product management tools. Learn to identify and execute on high leverage work that generates disproportionate product returns.
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DATA FOR PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Unlock your full potential as a Product Manager by learning to drive impact for the metrics that matter most for your product. To deliver compounding wins, Product Managers need to be able to leverage data to make product decisions. Building a repeatable, data-informed system relies on having the right tools and strategies at your disposal. From conducting analysis to communicating your insights effectively, you’ll learn how to drive the most value out of your resources, without sacrificing efficiency.
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NEW! Finding Product/Market Fit
The most important journey any product goes through is finding product/market fit. Unfortunately, prevailing methodologies struggle to consistently produce successful startups, and gloss over critical elements of the process. Learn to improve your odds of finding product/market fit using the Deliberate Startup methodology, a comprehensive approach that focuses on the steps needed to build a successful product.
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Cross-Functional Growth Programs
Growth Series
The most comprehensive overview available anywhere on how tech companies grow. You will learn the systems and frameworks that form the foundation of any successful career in growth. If you are newer to growth as an individual or as an organization, Growth Series will get you up to speed quickly and confidently.
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Experimentation + Testing
This program goes far beyond A/B tests. This program breaks down the system of how to identify strategic opportunities, create step function ideas, and test them in a high-velocity, high-precision way.
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Monetization + Pricing
Those who drive revenue tend to lead companies. The Monetization + Pricing will introduce a system to evaluate and improve monetization and pricing at your organization.
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Advanced Growth Strategy
Advanced Growth Strategy teaches step-by-step how to create a system of compounding growth loops. You'll break down your company’s current growth loops, identify their constraints, and select methods to unlock new growth. This program is recommended for emerging leaders on a Lead, Director, or VP career track.
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Membership includes participation in a live program each cohort and ongoing access to content from all programs, weekly releases, deep-dive sessions, and a community of vetted peers to help you execute what you learn.