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AMA: Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AI, Savita Kini on AI Product Management
March 3 @ 10:00AM PST
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Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AI, Savita Kini on AI Product Management
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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?
Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AI • March 3
AI/ML by definition requires a decent foundational understanding for AI/ML/Deep Learning Concepts, trends in industry, tools and methodologies to be able to work with engineering in defining solutions to customer /user problems. For the forseeable future, I would say that most AI/ML product manag......Read More
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Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AI • March 3
Key traits for AI PM is no different from other PM roles -- empathy for customer issues, ability craft / create / articulate problems and how we might approach the solution, industry and domain experience, and collaborative leadership to work with engineering. Willingness to learn or prior experi......Read More
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Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AI • May 10
There is no one "metric" that ML Product Teams will use to define success. It entirely depends on what is the "ML" used in the context of a feature or product. Typical metrics might include * Quality improvements achieved via ML implementation vs traditional algorithmic implementations * U......Read More
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Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AI • March 3
Metrics are an interesting question. This really depends on the type of product we are building that leverages ML. Since ML can be use for example in electronic records, sales workflows, computer vision type use cases or speech / audio use cases some of which I am familiar with -- we can break it......Read More
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Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AI • March 3
Seek to understand and clarify first before assuming you have learnt everything that is to know and propose solutions. I see there are lot of online courses, documentation, articles -- you can do a lot of reading online to educate yourself about the complexities of model development, data gathe......Read More
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Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AI • March 3
This is not a simple question. There is no such thing as a "traditional PM" because PM roles and responsibilities differ by industry segment. There are substantial differences in PM roles from consumer app to enterprise app to hardware and enterprise infrastructure. Fundamentally the role of th......Read More
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Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AI • March 3
Excellent question. Hard/technical skills are absolutely critical to be a successful AI product manager. As I mention in my other answers -- PMs bring domain knowledge, and customer perspectives to seek solutions. In AI/ML product development, we apply all the same foundational technical knowledg......Read More
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Savita Kini
Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AI • March 3
A strong software engineering and product development background is a good foundation to transition to a PM role. AI is a very broad field, and one can apply AI in many different applications and use-cases. Just as you would with any job search and transition -- take some foundational courses in......Read More
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