Embracing Challenges in AI Product Management

Essential skills for product managers

Believing in and dreaming of success are vital skills for a product manager. So many of the roles surround concepts such as building a product vision, mission, and strategy and ultimately using these tools to create a roadmap that will manifest these more nebulous concepts. As product managers, we have to train ourselves to visualize. We can’t visualize if we don’t maintain clarity and focus on our goal. It’s all about alignment. We might find ourselves saying, “Do we have alignment?” over and over again as product managers to the point where we’ll find TikTok videos joking about product managers saying this way too much. Perhaps what makes it so funny is that alignment is so crucial to the role that the job function itself can be distilled into this one word. We’re creating alignment in all ways. We’re aligning leadership, marketing, sales, customer success, operations, finance, engineering, and countless other impacted business functions around the product and helping build something successful that all these teams can be proud of.