Ashka Vakil

AMA: strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management, Ashka Vakil on AI Product Management

March 24 @ 10:00AM PT
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Ashka Vakil
strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management1mo
Most customers I speak with are excited about adopting autonomous AI agents, and many have already started experimenting. The interest is not theoretical anymore. Custome...
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How do you see AI changing the way product teams collect and interpret user feedback in real time?
Do you think there’s potential for AI to actively engage users with clarifying questions during feedback collection, instead of just analyzing responses after the fact?
Ashka Vakil
strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management1mo
The biggest shift AI brings to user feedback is moving product teams from human-constrained, periodic research to continuous, autonomous discovery at scale. We are transi...
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Ashka Vakil
strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management1mo
I evaluate agentic AI opportunities by focusing on high-value workflows where an agent can meaningfully reduce manual effort or improve consistency at scale. It is not ab...
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Ashka Vakil
strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management1mo
At StrongDM, we approach safety, security, and compliance for autonomous agents by treating them like any other privileged actor in the system. The core principle is simp...
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Ashka Vakil
strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management1mo
The core skill for PMs in AI is not learning how to build models. It is having enough depth to make strong product and tradeoff decisions. If PMs rely entirely on technic...
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