AMA: Airbnb Group Product Manager, Suhas Manangi on AI Product Management
June 7 @ 10:00AM PST
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Airbnb Group Product Manager, Suhas Manangi on AI Product Management
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Suhas Manangi
Airbnb Group Product Manager • June 6
First PM in a company! I have not done it, nor have anyone in close network to have a good understanding. My guess is that they have to establish right roles/responsibilities on what to carve out from the CEO. Perhaps focused on scaling up product for next million users (or take on next set of en......Read More
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Suhas Manangi
Airbnb Group Product Manager • June 6
Product School, Try Exponent, and Product Allinace are good resources for PM interviews prep. Later is a good question. Interesting idea. I don't know of any, but it so interesting that someone should be offering it. Perhaps they might have rolled into certification or cohort courses with liv......Read More
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What are the different types of AI Product Managers. Are we going to see a role that's similar to a Technical Product Manager focused towards the data science team?
My question is more to understand if a PM needs to understand the AI concepts to be a successful AI PM?
Suhas Manangi
Airbnb Group Product Manager • June 6
PMs are generally categorised into B2C (Consumer), B2B (Enterprise), Platform, and Product. PMs role is generally 2 of these 4 things. Within this one can also be generalist PM vs domain PM vs growth PM vs scale PM etc. AI PM is the same. One additional categorey can be about building ML Ops plat......Read More
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Suhas Manangi
Airbnb Group Product Manager • June 7
Top 3 traits that makes a Good PM a Good AI PM: 1. Understand foundational ML tech concepts and having used them to make product decisions. For eg: Statistical Regression, Causation vs Corelation, AUC, P/R, Features vs Labels, Feature distribution, Model Training, Model drift and au......Read More
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Suhas Manangi
Airbnb Group Product Manager • June 6
In addition to core business metrics that are improtant for a product success, below are the additional ones AI PMs obsess over to ensure the success upon launch doesn't regress over time. 1. Precision and Recall 2. False Positive 3. Model quality monitoring metrics based on where is the risk......Read More
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Suhas Manangi
Airbnb Group Product Manager • June 7
5 years from now, likely there is going to be no difference between a Traditional PM and AI PM. AI is going to be used/present in all products. I see "Traditional PM role" as a foundational one to have, upon which one can grow to become a good AI PM. Good Traditional PM with aptitude for tech and......Read More
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Suhas Manangi
Airbnb Group Product Manager • June 6
Trust & Risk is a specific domain, so generalist PM would need to pivot to become a domain PM. This will require launching solutions across multiple years. Fraud evolves every year, but over 90% still remains the same decade long type. Payment Risk is a good stepping stone. Balacing security with......Read More
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Suhas Manangi
Airbnb Group Product Manager • June 6
Being a good PM helps becoming a good manager of PMs, but is not a sufficient condition. I have seen below 3 as top challenges/opportunities unique to GPMs: 1. Deligating, and trusting your direct report PMs to care about Customers as much as you do, if not more. 2. Providing saftey net fo......Read More
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