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From Product Manager to AI Product Manager - Making the Transition

Jun 6, 2024

Discussions on the impact of AI in various business sectors such as search, recommendations, and fraud detection. Emphasis on the growing importance of AI Product Managers and their role in tech companies and consulting firms. Key skills needed to transition from a Product Manager to an AI Product Manager.

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Specialization in product management is vital, despite its generalist nature.

Transition to AI product management requires honing data analysis and UI design skills.

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Importance of Specialization in Product Management

Specialization within the product management field is highlighted as essential despite the generalist nature of the role across different organizations. While product managers possess transferable skills valuable in varied sectors, specializations in areas like marketplaces, technology demands, and business domains emphasize the diversity within the product management space. The focus shifts to AI product management, indicating the potential for specialization in managing AI-driven products.

Transition from Product Manager to AI Product Manager

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From Product Manager to AI Product Manager - Making the Transition

Why focus on AI product management ?

AI or traditional(??) Machine Learning has been driving business impact for a while (decades now). Search, recommendations, Ads, fraud detection and many such areas are heavily driven by ML algorithms
AI is bound to have a large impact on business productivity going forward. There is some hype, but there is surely some real gains after the hype settles.

There will be a lot of effort by businesses to extract productivity gains out of AI and this will open door for more innovations.

An AI Product Manager could be working for:

a tech company building foundational models and serving API-s (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft)
a tech company building tools and applications that will be heavily influenced by AI eg. — Adobe, Google, Microsoft, Netflix; startups, etc.
businesses that want to extract benefits from this new technology
consulting companies that help business through the transformation (the role here might be ‘consultant’ instead of ‘PM’)

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