💡 Product Circle ⭕ Chat - Topic: Everyone Is Becoming an AI Product Manager with Polly Allen
Everyone Is Becoming an AI Product Manager (Whether They Know It or Not)
Welcome to 💡 Product Circle ⭕ Chat on
🕕Wednesday 7 May 2025 at 2pm (PT, US)
🕕Thursday 8 May 2025 at 9am (AEST)
Topic: Everyone Is Becoming an AI Product Manager
It’s not just product managers who need to understand AI.
In 2025, every professional — from coaches to founders to operators — is making decisions about AI-powered systems: what to build, what to automate, and what the risks are. Like it or not, they’re taking on the responsibilities of AI product management.
In this provocative and practical session, Polly Allen (former Amazon Alexa product leader and founder of AI Career Boost) challenges how we think about “AI PMs” and shares why traditional product mindsets are failing to keep up.
You’ll learn:
Why using AI tools is no longer enough — and what building with AI really demands
How to spot high-leverage, high-ROI opportunities in an AI-saturated world
Why most orgs are dangerously overconfident about their AI readiness (think prompt engineering or chatbots)
What the rise of intelligent agents means for your product surface, roadmap, and role
This isn’t about prompt engineering. It’s about reimagining your role as a product leader when AI is no longer just a tool — it’s the system.
Who is Polly Allen?
Polly Allen is a trailblazer in AI product innovation and one of the most respected voices at the intersection of artificial intelligence, product leadership, and ethical tech.
A former Amazon Alexa product leader, Polly was responsible for shaping the capabilities of the world’s most popular speech assistant—building teams, launching features used by millions, and making AI more helpful and human.
She’s the founder of AI Career Boost, host of the AI Product Leader Podcast, and part of the Futurist Think Tank, where she helps organisations and individuals prepare for what’s next in AI. Polly is passionate about inclusive innovation, ethical AI, and empowering more women to lead in the tech space.
Polly holds degrees in both Computer Science and Business, combining deep technical expertise with strategic thinking. She’s worked across startups, enterprise, and government, and taught AI product strategy at Reforge.
Today, she’s on a mission to make AI careers more accessible, human-centred, and impactful.
Links:
🔗 Polly Allen on LinkedIn
🌐 AI Career Boost
🎙️ AI Product Leader Podcast
Zoom Link: See invite
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Irene
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Irene Liakos
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