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AI Product Management in 3 Weeks

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Accelerate your path to AI product leadership

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Develop a deep understanding of AI and ML and apply strategic thinking to leverage these technologies
  • Design and build comprehensive AI-driven user experiences from start to finish
  • Achieve product-market fit and create effective go-to-market strategies
  • Establish a shared AI product language across the organization for more effective communication

Course description

The future of product management is AI product management. Those who master this technology will lead the next wave of product innovation where products are intelligently crafted to anticipate user needs, adapt in real time, and solve complex problems with unprecedented precision.

Join expert Marily Nika to take the first step toward becoming a transformative AI product leader, bridging the gap between cutting-edge technology and meaningful user experiences. You’ll understand core AI/ML concepts, explore the complete AI product development lifecycle, and learn how to collaborate effectively with data scientists and engineers. Through expert presentations, hands-on exercises, and practical case studies, you’ll learn the shared language of AI product strategy and gain the confidence to drive meaningful innovation.

NOTE: With today’s registration, you’ll be signed up for all three sessions. Although you can attend any of the sessions individually, we recommend participating in all three weeks.

A new way to interact

This event will be presented in a new format that brings the audience into the action. The first 50 people to join get optional camera and mic access for the opportunity to ask questions and interact directly with your trainer and peers. You can turn your camera off at any time, and you can always interact through chat. Before joining the course, please take a moment to read the O'Reilly learning platform code of conduct.

This live event is for you because...

  • You’re a product manager who’s transitioning to AI or refining your skills to manage AI-powered products.
  • You’re an entrepreneur or innovator who’s exploring AI’s potential to transform your business.
  • You’re an engineer or data scientist who wants to learn the product management craft as it relates to AI.

Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with general product management practices (recommended but not required)

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Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Day 1: Foundations of AI Product Management

Introduction to AI product management (45 minutes)

  • Presentation: Differences between traditional PM and AI PM; adopting a product mindset and user-first perspective
  • Group discussion: Paving your path to AI PM
  • Break

AI product development lifecycle (AIPDL) (60 minutes)

  • Presentation: Stages of the AI lifecycle; introduction to AI tools and their applications in AIPDL; understanding AI-specific capabilities
  • Break

Technical primer for AI PMs (75 minutes)

  • Presentation: Core AI/ML concepts; common algorithms and applications
  • Demos: Training an image classifier (Google Colab); AI prototyping tools
  • Break

Ideation and problem-solving (60 minutes)

  • Hands-on exercise: Brainstorm a viable AI solution to a real-world problem
  • Q&A

Day 2: AI Strategy, Metrics, and Stakeholder Leadership

AI metrics and alignment (60 minutes)

  • Presentation: Key AI metrics; aligning AI strategy with business goals

Strategic decision-making (60 minutes)

  • Presentation: Pitfalls in AI product decisions; AI product goal setting; creating strategic roadmaps
  • Break

Leading technical teams (60 minutes)

  • Presentation: Establishing AI awareness and technical influence; working with scientists/engineers; making trade-offs
  • Break

Product reviews (30 minutes)

  • Presentation: Leading product reviews
  • Q&A

OKR workshop (30 minutes)

  • Hands-on exercise: Participate in forums on goal setting and measuring success of AI products

Day 3: Execution, Artifacts, and Emerging Trends

AI PM artifacts deep dive (120 minutes)

  • Presentation and exercises: PRDs; PRFAQs; pitch decks
  • Break

AI agents, current landscape, and trends (55 minutes)

  • Presentation and demonstration: Introduction to Zapier, ChatGPT, etc.
  • Break

End-to-end product simulation (45 minutes)

  • Hands-on exercise: End-to-end simulation (ideate, PRD, pitch)

Wrap-up and Q&A (20 minutes)

Your Instructor

  • Marily Nika

    Marily Nika is an award-winning GenAI product leader with over 13 years of experience building AI products at Google and Meta. She’s also one of the world’s foremost AI educators, as well as an author, TED AI speaker, Harvard Business School fellow, and founder of the AI Product Academy, which offers AI product management certifications. Dr. Nika holds a PhD in machine learning and writes about AI at https://marily.substack.com.

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Skill covered

Product Management