AI Product Management

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Mike Flouton
Mike Flouton
GitLab VP, ProductJanuary 10
This will be anti-climactic, but my advice is "don't forget you're a PM." Stay laser focused on the customer, their pain and problems and solve the problem. AI is an incredibly powerful tool to solve customer problems, but that's all it is. A tool to solve problems. And it's not always the best t......Read More
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Savita Kini
Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AIMarch 4
A strong software engineering and product development background is a good foundation to transition to a PM role. AI is a very broad field, and one can apply AI in many different applications and use-cases. Just as you would with any job search and transition -- take some foundational courses in......Read More
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Hiral Shah
Hiral Shah
DocuSign Director of Product ManagementMay 8
Getting user feedback is a very important element of building any AI feature. Without the user input, you cannot improve your AI, which means you cannot improve your product. Treat the AI feature similar to any product feature, you need to be nimble, agile and adaptable. There are a number of way......Read More
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Savita Kini
Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AIMarch 3
AI/ML by definition requires a decent foundational understanding for AI/ML/Deep Learning Concepts, trends in industry, tools and methodologies to be able to work with engineering in defining solutions to customer /user problems. For the forseeable future, I would say that most AI/ML product manag......Read More
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Savita Kini
Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AIMarch 4
This is not a simple question. There is no such thing as a "traditional PM" because PM roles and responsibilities differ by industry segment. There are substantial differences in PM roles from consumer app to enterprise app to hardware and enterprise infrastructure.  Fundamentally the role of th......Read More
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Tamar Hadar
Tamar Hadar
The Knot Worldwide Senior Director of ProductFebruary 3
As a first PM, you will need to be very judicious with how you allocate your time and resources. In fact, I think that’s true for larger companies as well. There are always going to be more ideas than resources available. As a product manager, you are responsible for translating the company’s vi......Read More
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Dalit Heldenberg
Balancing current customer needs with the ever-evolving landscape of AI and technology is a critical facet of effective product management. To achieve this delicate balance, consider the following key strategies: 1. Define Business Goals: * Begin by setting clear business goals for the upcomin......Read More
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Savita Kini
Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AIMarch 4
Key traits for AI PM is no different from other PM roles -- empathy for customer issues, ability craft / create / articulate problems and how we might approach the solution, industry and domain experience, and collaborative leadership to work with engineering. Willingness to learn or prior experi......Read More
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Savita Kini
Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AIMarch 4
Metrics are an interesting question. This really depends on the type of product we are building that leverages ML. Since ML can be use for example in electronic records, sales workflows, computer vision type use cases or speech / audio use cases some of which I am familiar with -- we can break it......Read More
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Mike Flouton
Mike Flouton
GitLab VP, ProductJanuary 10
For sure. There are certain things AI does really well, and others that humans or traditional deterministic algorithms do better. That sounds obvious, but there's some nuance here that users often miss. At Barracuda, we were the first major email security vendor to market with an AI based appr......Read More
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