AI/ML-focused Product Manager
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An AI/ML-focused Product Manager is a software product manager who can deliver an AI/ML-based product.
- Context:
- It can range from being an AI-focused Product Manager to being an ML-focused Product Manager.
- It can range from being an AI/ML Platform Product Manager to being an AI/ML Solution Product Manager.
- They can be responsible for AI/ML-Product Design.
- They can be responsible for AI/ML-Product Market Fit.
- They can be responsible for AI/ML-Product Delivery.
- They can interact with an AI/ML Software Team.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Personalization Project, AI/ML-based Development Team, Platform Software Product Manager.
References
2017
- https://www.oreilly.com/radar/what-you-need-to-know-about-product-management-for-ai/
- QUOTE: ... If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). You already know the game and how it is played: you’re the coordinator who ties everything together, from the developers and designers to the executives. You’re responsible for the design, the product-market fit, and ultimately for getting the product out the door. But there’s a host of new challenges when it comes to managing AI projects: more unknowns, non-deterministic outcomes, new infrastructures, new processes and new tools. A lot to learn, but worthwhile to access the unique and special value AI can create in the product space.
Whether you manage customer-facing AI products, or internal AI tools, you will need to ensure your projects are in sync with your business. This means that the AI products you build align with your existing business plans and strategies (or that your products are driving change in those plans and strategies), that they are delivering value to the business, and that they are delivered on time. A PM for AI needs to do everything a traditional PM does, but they also need an operational understanding of machine learning software development along with a realistic view of its capabilities and limitations. …
- QUOTE: ... If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). You already know the game and how it is played: you’re the coordinator who ties everything together, from the developers and designers to the executives. You’re responsible for the design, the product-market fit, and ultimately for getting the product out the door. But there’s a host of new challenges when it comes to managing AI projects: more unknowns, non-deterministic outcomes, new infrastructures, new processes and new tools. A lot to learn, but worthwhile to access the unique and special value AI can create in the product space.