Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise)

What if the product manager came to the meeting with prototypes? What if you come to the design team and instead of a PRD, you actually already have your mocks. With AI, it's super feasible for a product manager to come to a meeting and say, hey, I already have some ideas here. I wanted to mock them up this way. They're probably wrong, but at least the starting point now looks a little bit higher. resolution for people that want to say pivot their career to be an AIPM, what Help you move in that direction? It's almost counterintuitive, but I actually think it's probably easier now to break into AI product management than it was before. There are these incredible videos that are being put out right now on YouTube on how to build an app in like an hour. That would not have been possible even a year ago. Before you actually probably needed to have more of a foundation and background in machine learning to get a shot at one of these companies building AI products. What have you seen separates the typical AI product manager from, say, the top five percent? Really the question you have to ask yourself is.

Today, my guest is Aman Khan. Aman is director of product at Arise AI. And over the course of his PM career, he's focused on building products in the AI space. Including at Spotify on the ML platform team. And rolls a cruise, zipline, and apple. He's also very intentionally stayed an individual contributor, which feels like a trend, especially with the rise of AI tooling making PMs much more productive.

And companies cutting back on management layers. And so in our conversation, we go deep on these two topics. how to get into AI and how to become an AI product manager. what the different types of AI product managers are, how to thrive as an AI PM. And what Amon has learned about how to be successful and continue his career as an individual contributor long term.

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