Beyond Autopilot: Intentional Product Leadership in the AI Age

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1. Beyond Autopilot Intentional Product Leadership in the AI Age
2. Context AI in Product Management
3. 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
4. Specific tools come and go – let‘s talk about the general impact on us and our product work.
5. AI tooling will change our ways of working in product Lenny‘s Newsletter, Jan 2025, n= > 6500
6. There are many exciting opportunities to improve our work as product people Exemplary areas of application for AI in PM work (Claude & me) Illustrative!
7. There‘s a strong temptation of over- reliance on AI tools
8. Overreliance on AI leads to trust issues in collaboration
9. Once lost, trust takes a long time to rebuild
10. We need to be intentional in how we use AI in our product work …individually
11. 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
12. Think about the different tasks and how to involve your „working student“ Adapted from Ethan Mollick: Co-Intelligence Just Me! Automate Delegate
13. We need to be intentional in how we use AI in our product work …individually …as a team
14. We need to move from individual tool usage to AI team members!
15. 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
16. 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 cultivate curiosity as a team.
17. 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
18. 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:
19. Thank you! Arne Kittler Product Leadership Consulting & Coaching mail@arnekittler.de