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Beyond Autopilot: Intentional Product Leadershi...

Beyond Autopilot: Intentional Product Leadership in the AI Age

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Arne Kittler

July 06, 2025
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  1. Let‘s be clear which aspect of AI in Product Management

    we talk about Building AI Products Enhancing Products with AI Using AI in our product work Building AI Products Enhancing Products with AI
  2. AI tooling will change our ways of working in product

    Lenny‘s Newsletter, Jan 2025, n= > 6500
  3. We need to be intentional in how we use AI

    in our product work …individually
  4. Let‘s be conscious in our individual relationship to our AI

    tools Meet your new working student • Super smart and quick • Eager to impress with results you expect • Overconfident to the max
  5. Think about the different tasks and how to involve your

    „working student“ Adapted from Ethan Mollick: Co-Intelligence Just Me! Automate Delegate
  6. We need to be intentional in how we use AI

    in our product work …individually …as a team
  7. 1. Navigating Context and Building Trust • Active Alignment becomes

    more important: We need to be in the room where it happens • We need to be transparent about our use of AI
  8. 2. Maintaining Humility and Curiosity • To emphasize curiosity, let's

    focus on the questions, not the answers • To practice humility, let's encourage challenging - and being challenged • Let‘s think beyond individual enhancement and make
  9. 3. Developing Real Understanding and Product Sense • We need

    to establish new team routines to practice understanding and learn from each other • We need to find new ways of developoing future generations of product people
  10. How do we maintain the human accountability that builds trust

    in our teams while leveraging AI's capabilities? As AI becomes part of our toolkit, how do we intentionally preserve the human qualities—curiosity, humility, and deep understanding—that make collaboration effective? How do we move beyond individual AI enhancement to truly collaborative human-AI teams? If AI handles the legwork that traditionally built product sense, how will future product leaders develop theirs? Closing Questions: