PM role changing with AI

A quick note, away from my usual life visuals - about how the product manager role is going to be impacted with AI

How is the PM role going to evolve with AI?

1. 🟠: Roles of Product, Design, and Engineering is growing bigger, given AI productivity gains, which will naturally mean each role is already and will be taking on more scope in addition to working on more leveraged decisions.

2. 🟣: The intersection between the roles is converging, as PMs are directly prototyping or designing code-ready designs, or a designer building animations directly in web/mobile and more. Which means

a. Handovers/coordination between these roles will need less communication/collaboration (read: fewer meetings on unimportant stuff), which means

b. Across product teams, there will be less overhead / turnarounds, reducing the need for a project manager role / PMO.

c. The engineer for ca ertain kind of products* who is interested or gifted in product thinking can now take on all of the 3 circles.

3. 🟢 : The intersection of all these roles in one role isn't defined or standard yet though there will be a need for it coming as AI becomes better. This will be a super IC role, not a GM type role or a managerial role we see today.

4. Not in the graph yet but clearly Product and Marketing are starting to intersect more for external users/consumers facing PMs that will start to define how these functions change (Marketing Ops already declining, PMM <-> PM morphing- new post coming)

Open to hearing your thoughts - hit reply.

I have a slide deck with examples / case studies that go deeper into these observations, and if you are interested in running this as a lunch time / brown bag session, DM me! 😊