Inside the AI Product Manager Role
In this post, you’ll hear from AI PMs at OpenAI, Google, Meta, Figma, Roblox, Adobe, and more on how to break into AI PM and craft great AI products. We asked each product leader just four questions: What are your top learnings from building AI products? How did you become an AI PM? What skills do AI PMs need? How technical do you have to be? How can someone become an AI PM? Let’s dive into the answers (and memes). David Kossnick (Senior Director of Product at Figma) A prototype is worth a thousand mocks. Plenty of exciting AI ideas die at the prototype stage because current AI models just can’t do the desired task well enough — it’s too slow, inconsistent, or hallucinate too much. Prototypes can identify these issues before you get too far into a project. Even if you can’t build a full prototype, at least prove in a model-prompting playground that the right inputs can get you the right output. Create a data loop. Whether through implicit signals like accept and reject rates or explici
This post was co-authored by Agnes Chu. Dear subscribers, Today, I want to share an inside look at the AI product manager role. In this post, you’ll hear from AI PMs at OpenAI, Google, Meta, Figma, Roblox, Adobe, and more on how to break into AI PM and craft great AI products. We asked each product leader just four questions: What are your top learnings from building AI products? How did you become an AI PM? What skills do AI PMs need? How technical do you have to be? How can someone become an AI PM? Let’s dive into the answers (and memes). David Kossnick (Senior Director of…
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