Product, business & communication

Discover and scope AI product opportunities

Identify where models add value, assess feasibility/data readiness, write an AI PRD with success metrics.

~15 focused hours·intermediate

Tools: Notion/Confluence (PRD docs), Figma (clickable flows), Google/Claude AI Studio (feasibility spikes), Amplitude/Mixpanel (usage signal)

Market relevance — share of job ads asking for this
What employers mean

You should be able to…

  1. Run customer discovery sessions and translate business problems into scoped AI product capabilities
  2. Assess feasibility and data readiness before committing a roadmap slot to an AI feature
  3. Write a PRD with explicit success metrics, not just a feature description
  4. Prioritize which AI capability to build first given engineering cost and business impact
  5. Evaluate build-vs-buy: off-the-shelf LLM API vs fine-tuned model vs vendor product
  6. Define the launch bar — what 'good enough to ship' means for a probabilistic feature
  7. Say no to an AI feature request and explain the reasoning to stakeholders

Needs first: Explain how LLMs work and where they fail

Learn — free, link-checked

The few resources that matter

Read · beginner · 25 min · atlassian.com

Product requirements: how to write a great PRD

A concrete, widely-used PRD template and structure you can adapt for an AI feature's success metrics. — Atlassian
Read · beginner · 25 min · tryexponent.com

What is an AI Product Manager?

Maps the AI PM role to concrete responsibilities (feasibility, data readiness, eval) recruiters actually screen for. — Exponent
Course · beginner · 60 min · cloudskillsboost.google

Introduction to Generative AI

Vendor-neutral, structured primer on what GenAI is and how it differs from traditional ML — good for a first pass. — Google Cloud Skills Boost
Course · beginner · 240 min · deeplearning.ai

Generative AI for Everyone

Andrew Ng's free, non-technical framing of where GenAI creates business value — exactly the PM lens you need. — DeepLearning.AI (Andrew Ng)
Practice

AI feature PRD: automated GST-invoice data extraction for an Indian SMB accounting tool

Interview (or role-play interviewing) 3 target users — small-business owners who manually re-key GST invoices into accounting software — and write a full PRD proposing an AI feature that extracts structured fields (GSTIN, amount, tax breakup) from photographed invoices. Include a feasibility assessment (data availability, expected accuracy, failure modes), success metrics (extraction accuracy, time saved per invoice), and a phased rollout plan with a clear launch bar.

Done when
  • PRD includes problem statement, at least 3 real or role-played user quotes, and explicit success metrics
  • Feasibility section names specific data sources and a realistic accuracy target with justification
  • A launch bar is defined (e.g. '95% field-level accuracy on a held-out set of 200 invoices before GA')
  • Rollout plan includes a fallback for low-confidence extractions (human review queue)
Prove it

Evidence a recruiter can check

  • Public PRD document (Notion/Google Doc, view access) linked from a portfolio site
  • Notes or recording from the 3 user interviews (anonymized if needed)
  • A one-slide feasibility summary a recruiter can skim in 60 seconds
Interview

Questions you'll get asked

  1. Walk me through how you'd scope an AI feature from a vague 'use AI for X' request.
  2. How do you assess whether we have the data to make an AI feature work before writing a single line of code?
  3. What goes into your AI feature PRD that wouldn't be in a normal PRD?
  4. Tell me about a time you said no to an AI feature — what was the reasoning?
  5. How would you prioritize between an AI feature that saves internal ops time vs one that's customer-facing?
  6. What's your process for deciding RAG vs fine-tuning vs a third-party API for a new capability?
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