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What does your cross-functional team structure look like for AI products? How is it different from traditional product teams?

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Product Development Process
  1. Puja Hait
    Puja Hait

    Google Group Product Manager • 6mo

    I see a few changes Evals is a new area. This is led by PM or Program Manager in conjunction with Data Science, User Research and often involves vendors for scaling. Trust & Safety evals in addition to Quality checks become an important part of cross functional team set up. Between engineering, product, design there is a harmony of understanding where the model and product are lacking and what areas need to be solved by model vs product or design. e.g File picker in Docs Gemini Sidepanel sol ...Read More

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  2. Derek Ferguson
    Derek Ferguson

    GitLab Group Product Manager • 6mo

    In my experience, the shape of the team is more or less the same as a traditional product team. All of the same functions need to be accounted for. There are a few additional functions within the engineering team that should be accounted for, like an ML/AI engineer or data scientist, but you still need product, design, quality, engineering, tech writing, and product marketing. The differences come in the speed of decision making, who has the final say in those decisions, and how the dynamics wit ...Read More

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