The AI Product Playbook

Introduction

This playbook is the culmination of our combined experience working at the forefront of AI innovation at companies like Google and Microsoft, and from teaching and mentoring thousands of Product Managers. Over the years, we've seen brilliant technical teams build powerful AI models, only to see the resulting products fail to connect with users. We've also seen product leaders struggle to navigate the hype, intimidated by the jargon and uncertain how to bridge the gap between a business problem and a technical AI solution.

This new landscape demands a new kind of product manager. This playbook was born from our passion to define and support that evolution. It is built on the belief that the most successful PMs will be those who can blend timeless product craft with a modern understanding of AI, enabling them to guide their teams and products through the most significant technological shift of our generation.

This book is your hands-on guide to developing that blend of skills. It's designed for the non-technical professional, cutting through the hype to focus on actionable frameworks and real-world application. To help you navigate this journey, we have structured the book into three parts:

• Part I: Foundational AI/ML Concepts will build your core literacy. We will demystify the essential concepts of AI and Machine Learning, from how models are trained and evaluated to the different types of ML and the end-to-end data science lifecycle.
• Part II: AI PM Specializations ...