Discover the potential of product leadership scalability with AI as your co-pilot in product management. Explore the impact of AI on managing diffusion of technology and product innovation cycles and how product leaders can adapt to AI driven strategies and execution. Join us for a plausible journey into hitherto uncharted territory of AI propelled People, Process, Products, Profits and Planet.

1. Scaling Product Leadership with AI
Ravi Padaki
Feb 16, 2024, Bangalore

2. Scale can only be achieved by developing capacity and
capability in your teams.
@ravipadaki
From the book Scaling Leadership
By Robert Anderson, William Adams

3. NEXT
8 Trends in Product Management

4. @ravipadaki
#1 Rise of AI Product Manager jobs worldwide

5. #2 Data acquisition strategy for AI Models
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6. #3 The need to define value of AI and managing
process
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7. #4 Marketing AI

8. #5 Collaborations with Remote teams

9. #6 Security,
Ethics, Privacy

10. #7 Focus on Path to Profitability

11. #8a Global Value Chain Awareness

12. #8b Global Environment Awareness

13. Marketing AI Solutions – The New Paradigm
Product (AI Inside)
Price
Promotion
Placement
Responsible AI
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14. Head of products at a startup Individual Contributor at a corporate
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15. Ideally, a Product Management Copilot!
Personalized…
For your industry and sector
For your company
For your role and seniority
For your product!
For you!
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16. Use cases and available AI Tools for Product Managers by Phase
Discovery
Customer interviews - note taking, suggesting, reviewing, summarizing, analysing
ChatGPT or Gemini or Otter.ai
Identification of personas with quirky names.
ChatGPT or Gemini
Creation of Customer Journey Map drafts from customer interviews of Day in the Life of…
ChatGPT or Gemini
Summarizing videos
ChatGPT or Gemini
Translating from user’s local language to English. ChatGPT or Gemini
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17. Use cases and available AI Tools for Product Managers by Phase
Definition
Backlog Management, tagging and classification – ChatGPT or Gemini or zeda.io
Product strategy recos.
Feature suggestion/prioritization
Creation of roadmap decks
Crafting customer stories – ChatGPT or Gemini
Competitive analysis
Best case studies and analysis
ChatGPT or Gemini
Drafting product strategy document – ChatGPT or Gemini
Drafting PRDs or User stories – ChatGPT or Gemini
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18. Use cases and available AI Tools for Product Managers by Phase
Design
Recommend visual designs, logos, graphics
- Canva.io, DALL*E, Stable Diffusion
Draft brand guidelines - ChatGPT
Recommend colour themes – ChatGPT and DALL*E
Analyse emotional appeal and possible brand recall of images, videos, text ads
Recommend user flows – ChatGPT or Gemini
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19. Use cases and available AI Tools for Product Managers by Phase
Develop
Translate requirements into code and application – Google Duet
Code - Google Duet
Unit tests – Google Duet
Create engineering architecture documents – ChatGPT + apps
Standards compliance – Google Duet
Generate Data dashboards for well known metrics - ?
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20. Categories and AI Tools for Product Managers
# Category Use cases AI Tools
1 Efficiency and Productivity Calendar
Drafting emails, summarizing long threads
Meeting note taker and summary writer
Roadmaps, Decks and Documents
Send your AI persona to meetings you can’t
attend or don’t want to attend.
Microsoft Copilot
Google Gemini
Notion.co
ChatGPT
Otter.ai
Zeda.io
2 Story telling and
communications
Graphics, logos, images
Video edits
Slide deck creator
Canva.io
DALL.E
Stable Diffusion
3 Brainstorming and strategy Review, analyse and recommend strategies ChatGPT or Gemini
4 Team dynamics and leadership Coach for better team building
Coach for skill building
ChatGPT or Gemini
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21. Applying Levels of AI to Product Management*
Example questions to illustrate current capabilities and limitations
Level Capability Strategy Execution
L1 Assist Can you help me with…? Can you help me with…?
L2 Augment What else do I need to consider? Can you get this done for me?
L3 Adapt Can you come up with a strategy for…? Can you run this for me?
L4 Assume Can you manage this product for me? Can you achieve these goals for me?
L5 Full Autonomy • Can you innovate given a purpose and a
set of constraints?
• Can you sell this idea to stakeholders and
get senior management support?
• Can you work with engineers and
designers and come up with shared
objectives?
• Can you execute and drive towards
customer success?
• Can you work with engineers and
designers and take decisions towards
meeting objectives?
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* Levels of AI inspired by Levels of AV

22. The biggest challenge (and reward) is working with
diverse teams and coming up with ideas!
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23. AI cannot substitute
Leadership!
How are you listening?
How are you enabling career growth of your team?
How are you encouraging risk taking?
How are you building D&I?
How are you holding yourself and your teams accountable?
How are you enabling collaborative environments?
How are you defining your Ikigai?

24. Scaling Product Leadership
Building organizational capacity and capability with AI
Growth stage by revenues People Process Products
< $1M ARR
Very early
$1M - $10M ARR
Early stage
$10M - $100M ARR
Mid stage
More than $100M ARR
Late stage
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AI Augmented
Organizations
Peak Collaboration Peak Innovation

25. THANK YOU
Ravi Padaki
www.linkedin.com/in/ravipadaki