Main takeaways:
-What is AI-first product management?
-How is it different (and similar) to other kinds of PM roles?
-Who are the key stakeholders in AI-first organizations?
-What does the AI Product development lifecycle look like? How is it different from the software development lifecycle?
-What are some example AI use cases and key success metrics?
-What skills does an AI first PM need to master?
9. What is AI ?
5
AI - training
Rules a.k.a models
Data Output
Models are trained
to learn from sample
data and outputs
10. 6
AI - inference
Model New Data
New
Output
Model predicts the
output when fed
new data
How is AI different ?
11. OK, so why do we care about AI?
$13 trillion in economic activity across the world by 2030 *
1.2 percent of additional GDP growth per year through to
2030 Steam engine's boost to human productivity - 0.3
percent per
year between 1850 and 1910
* Mckinsey report
13. Product
Manager
Problem
definition
Specify
success
metiics
e.g False
positives
should be
minimized
Piecision >
99%
Data
scientist
Model
training
Piepaie data
Peifoim
expeiiments
Validate
model
Keep the model
healthy and
ietiain on an
ongoing basis
ML & data
engineer
Model
production
Deploy models
and data
pipeline
Cieate model
seivice &
API endpoint
Do pioduction
testing ,
optimization
and
monitoiing
Application
developer
AI
Integration
Build
downstieam
application,
call ML APIs
Explain ML
output to end
useis
Piovide hooks
to collect usei
signal
End
users
AI
consumption
Piovide signals
and feedback
thiough theii
actions - e.g.
fiequently
maiking the
emails as “not
spam”
Data
analyst
Data
acquisition
Supply laige
dataset
categoiized
as “spam” oi
“No spam”
Monitoi model
peifoimance
and business
metiics
Spam filter - AI product development lifecycle
22. Product
Manager
Problem
definition
Specify
success
metiics
e.g False
positives
should be
minimized
Piecision >
99%
Data
scientist
Model
training
Piepaie data
Peifoim
expeiiments
Validate
model
Keep the model
healthy and
ietiain on an
ongoing basis
ML & data
engineer
Model
production
Deploy models
and data
pipeline
Cieate model
seivice &
API endpoint
Do pioduction
testing ,
optimization
and
monitoiing
Application
developer
AI
Integration
Build
downstieam
application,
call ML APIs
Explain ML
output to end
useis
Piovide hooks
to collect usei
signal
End
users
AI
consumption
Piovide signals
and feedback
thiough theii
actions - e.g.
fiequently
maiking the
emails as “not
spam”
Data
analyst
Data
acquisition
Supply laige
dataset
categoiized
as “spam” oi
“No spam”
Monitoi model
peifoimance
and business
metiics
Spam filter - AI product development lifecycle
23. AI generated original content
AutoML - Build AI without
specialized skills
AI trends
24. Knowledge
of AI
● Follows the industry trends
● Understands the state of art capabilities
● Learns from the experts in the team
Business
● Clearly defines business outcome and metrics
● Translates the problem into “AI speak”
● Measures the business impact
Prioritization
● Pick the right, impactful problems
● Breaks down problem in small chunks
● Right balance of short-term and research
Data
● Understands the kind of datasets are needed
● Builds sound strategy for data acquisition
● Sets off a flywheel to improve products over time
Communication
● Manages business stakeholder expectations,
especially the iterative nature of AI products
● Explain complex ethical and legal implications
AI Product Management Skills
25. Becoming PM in AI-first companies
AI first company
● Company’s core products extensively use AI to provide great user experience
● Data is treated a first class citizen and used for competitive differentiation
● Company’s infrastructure, people, processes, and culture is aligned to maximize the use of data in
AI apps
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