Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders” | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)

When we look at the skills required to do your job, by twenty thirty, it will change by seventy percent. So whether or not You're looking to change your job, your job is changing. In order to stay competitive, you actually have to go back to some first principles, go back to the drawing board, and reimagine what it means to be building. You're experimenting with a very different way of building product at LinkedIn that fulbraces what AI unlocks. We call it the full stock builder model. Goal itself is to empower great builders to take their idea and to take it to market, regardless of their role in the stack and which team they're on. It's really a fluid interaction between human and the ship. This feels like this could be a model for how a lot of companies operate and how product ends up being built in the future. Change management here is gonna be a critical part. It's not enough to give them the tools. You have to build the incentives programs, the motivation, the examples to how you do it. I see a lot of companies roll out their agents and just expecting companies to adopt. There's always been this question, is AI gonna just make people that are not amazing more amazing, or is it gonna make amazing people even more amazing? Top talent has this tendency of continuously trying to get better at their craft. Chi traits that I'm emphasizing for builders is

Today, my guest is Tomer Cohen, long time chief product officer at LinkedIn. Who is piloting a new way of building that I think will become a model for how companies operate in the future. It's called the Full Stack Builder Program. And essentially the idea is to enable anyone, no matter their function, To take products.

From idea to launch. They've scrapped their APM program and replaced it with an associate full stack builder program. They've introduced a new career path with the title Full Stack Builder that anyone from any function can become. And as you'll hear in the conversation, they've built a bunch of internal tools and agents and processes to basically build a human plus AI product team that can move really fast, adjust to change quickly, and do a lot more with a lot less. If you're looking for inspiration for how to rethink how your team operates,

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