Suhas Manangi
Group Product Manager, Airbnb
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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...more
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...more
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...more
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...more
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...more
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...more
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...more
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...more
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Group Product Manager at Airbnb
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