What are the key traits you look for in hiring AI Product Managers?

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Suhas Manangi

Snap Head of Product - Trust & Safety • 4y

Top 3 traits that makes a Good PM a Good AI PM: 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 auto training, etc Aware of potential bias and fiarness need in ML solutions they have launched in the past. Having used model observability and interpretability to explain the model output for their product corner cases. ...Read More

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Savita Kini

Cisco Director of Product Management, Speech and Video AI • 4y

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 experience or understanding of AI/ML modeling challenges, and how they can be use in the context the industry / domain where it is applied is ofcourse a big plus.

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Rapha Danilo

Gong GM / Sr Director of Product • 2y

The #1 trait I see the best companies look for now when hiring ANY senior product manager in an area where AI matters is a strong intuition and taste for how AI can be applied in a product. Which comes down to having 1. knowledge of the fundamental AI concepts and 2. strong product sense in order to properly gauge opportunity/risks. Develop a strong intuition around how AI should and should not be applied in your product e.g. Once your understand your user's JBTDs, Gen AI can be great to help yo ...Read More

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Deepak Mukunthu

Salesforce Senior Director of Product, Agentforce AI Platform • 4y

AI PMs are expected to have a broad understanding of ML lifecycle and knowledge of key ML trends in the industry. Ensure your product management basics are strong: Deep focus on customers, business priority, foster an experimentation culture. In this session, I also covered key traits of successful AI product managers: https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:6929801568753971200/. Hope this helps!

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Mike Flouton

Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 2y

First and foremost, there are certain traits I value in any PM and I'd say these are the basic non-negotiables. Intelligence. You can't coach height in basketball and you can't coach raw smarts in PM Curiosity. Great PMs ask a lot of questions. Strong customer focus. You love talking to customers and learning. No jerks. I want humble, low ego people who enjoy finding out they're wrong because it means they learned something new. For an AI hire, I touched on this in a few other questions but I wa ...Read More

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