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Oji Udezue discusses the evolving role of product management in an AI-driven world and the essential skills for today's product leaders.

The Product Momentum team first met Oji Udezue following his keynote at INDUSTRY 2025. And we just knew we had to have him on the pod. Oji is a highly skilled product leader whose CV includes companies like Calendly, Atlassian, and Microsoft. In addition, he co-authored (with wife, Ezinne Udezue) Building Rocket Ships, Product Management for High-Growth Companies a manual for product leaders, product managers, and executives who want to build faster, better, and more profitably (raise your hand if that describes you!). In this episode, we begin broadly by discussing the evolving role of product management in the era of AI. We then pivot quickly, drilling into some of the new challenges that require today’s product leaders to: Readjust to the accelerated pace of product development in today’s AI-empowered world (the three-speed problem), Re-emphasize product management’s core principles that remain constant, and Reconsider what counts as essential skills for today’s product manager. AI’s Impact and the Three-Speed Problem Companies do three things to build great technology products, Oji says: customer science, construction/development, and go-to-market. Each step on this…

People in this episode

Guest: Oji Udezue

Topics covered

• product management
• AI impact
• core skills
• product development
• high-growth companies

Keywords

• product management
• AI
• core skills
• product development
• high-growth companies
• customer science
• go-to-market

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Calendly, Atlassian, Microsoft

Books & works: Building Rocket Ships, Product Management for High-Growth Companies

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