Titles & Certificates
Proof you did the reps
Every stage awards a title when you clear it, and every title comes with a certificate you can download or hand to LinkedIn. This page is the index of all 29 of them, plus the 4 world titles and the rank ladder they feed.
Clear your first stage to enter the ladder.
Earning a Certificate
Clear the stage
A stage counts as cleared once you have attempted every boss scenario in it. The stage-clear cutscene hands you the title and the certificate on the spot.
Take it away
Put your name on it and download a PNG. The certificate carries the title, what it certifies, your rank, the issue date and a credential ID derived from your name and the stage.
Add it to LinkedIn
One button opens LinkedIn's "add a certification" form with the fields filled in; the other opens a draft post. Nothing is published until you confirm it on LinkedIn.
What it is
A professional certificate issued by Product Dojo, an independent learning platform for product managers. It records the stage you completed, the scenarios you worked, and the skill it certifies, and it carries a credential ID anyone can verify.
Ranks
Your rank is set by how many stages you have cleared, and it is printed on every certificate you issue after reaching it.
White Belt
First stage cleared. The vocabulary is landing and the basic forms are in place.
Yellow Belt
Four frameworks deep, with enough range to recognise which one a problem is asking for.
Green Belt
Eight stages across more than one world. Reaches for evidence before opinion, by habit.
Blue Belt
Thirteen frameworks, covering discovery as well as delivery. Can lead a problem space, not just work in one.
Brown Belt
Nineteen stages. Moves between strategy, discovery and measurement without dropping any of them.
Black Belt
Twenty-five stages cleared. Fluent enough in the forms to know when to break them.
Sensei of the Dojo
Every stage in every world cleared. Nothing left on the mat, so it is time to teach it.
World Titles
Clearing every stage in a world awards a second, heavier credential on top of the individual stage titles.
Outcome Architect
Outcomes
Can trace a company goal down to the product outcomes a team can actually move, and defend the metric tree that connects them.
Discovery Lead
Discovery
Can run the path from raw user research to a prioritized, defensible set of opportunities without skipping the evidence.
Growth Operator
Build & Grow
Can frame a problem, validate an idea, measure whether it worked, and position and grow what survives.
Product Detective
Analyze & Diagnose
Can diagnose a moving metric (cohort, funnel, root cause) and size an unknown from first principles.
Stage Titles
All 29 titles, in stage order, with the statement each certificate makes.
Systems Thinker
Reads a product as connected parts and feedback loops, works below the event line to structure and mental models, and picks leverage points instead of chasing symptoms.
Strategy Setter
Separates destination from route, writes a strategy kernel of diagnosis, guiding policy and coherent action, and states what the team will deliberately not do.
Outcome Owner
Distinguishes outputs from product outcomes from business outcomes, and sets targets a team can own and actually influence.
Metric Cartographer
Decomposes a top-line metric into the drivers that feed it, and tells a real lever apart from a vanity number.
Risk Reducer
Separates discovery from delivery, names the value, usability, feasibility and viability risks in a bet, and tests the riskiest assumption cheaply first.
Human-Centered Designer
Runs empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test as a loop, and knows which stage a stalled problem actually needs.
Job Interpreter
Writes job statements in terms of progress rather than features, and reads the four forces acting on a switch decision.
Impact Mapper
Connects a business goal through actors and behavioural impacts to specific deliverables, and cuts the deliverables that connect to nothing.
Opportunity Scout
Sizes a problem, spots underserved needs, and scores opportunities on evidence a reviewer can challenge line by line.
Segment Strategist
Splits an audience into groups that behave differently, and picks a beachhead instead of building for everyone.
Persona Builder
Turns research into a persona grounded in observed behaviour, and rejects the invented demographic sketch.
Journey Cartographer
Maps a product stage by stage as customers experience it, and locates the moments of truth where trust is won or lost.
Insight Synthesizer
Tells data from insight, synthesizes patterns through affinity mapping, and writes insight statements sharp enough to change a roadmap.
Research Lead
Plans a study from objective to method to recruitment, runs it without leading the participant, and shares findings the team can act on.
Problem Framer
Writes a problem statement that names who, what and the evidence, and digs past the first plausible answer to the root cause.
Hypothesis Hunter
Turns a belief into a falsifiable hypothesis, identifies the leap-of-faith assumption, and sets success criteria before running the test.
Divergent Thinker
Generates widely under real brainstorming ground rules, then converges deliberately without killing the ideas worth keeping.
Idea Shortlister
Moves from insight to How Might We questions to a shortlist judged on desirability, feasibility and viability.
Branch Thinker
Builds a radial map from a central node, and knows when a KPI tree or an affinity map is the better tool.
Metric Picker
Chooses metrics that are actionable, accessible and auditable, tells leading from lagging indicators, and defends a North Star.
Experiment Designer
Designs a single-variable test with a pre-registered sample size, and reads the result past peeking, novelty and sample ratio mismatch.
Data Interpreter
Starts from a question rather than a dashboard, pairs quantitative with qualitative, and holds correlation apart from causation.
Retention Realist
Reads growth through the leaky bucket and the AARRR funnel, and treats retention as the engine rather than acquisition.
Positioning Architect
Sets competitive alternatives, unique attributes and frame of reference so the value lands, and avoids the traps that make good products read as confusing.
Loop Builder
Models growth as output feeding back into input, distinguishes viral, content and paid loops, and explains why a loop compounds or stalls.
Cohort Cartographer
Reads a cohort table by row, column and diagonal, tells a flattening retention curve from a leaky bucket, and catches immature cohorts and survivorship bias.
Leak Hunter
Defines instrumented steps and a conversion window, ranks drop-off by volume as well as rate, and tells a tracking gap apart from real abandonment.
Cause Detective
Runs an ordered sweep on a moving metric, picks between 5 Whys, fishbone and issue trees, and proves a cause by prediction and recurrence rather than consensus.
Envelope Estimator
Scopes an estimation question, builds the assumption tree before the numbers, and sanity-checks a result against per-capita and a second method.