Christine Itwaru: AI in Product Management

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This is a podcast episode titled, Christine Itwaru: AI in Product Management. The summary for this episode is: Our guest is <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/christineitwaru/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Christine Itwaru</a>, she is the head of Product at <a href="http://vitality.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vitality.io</a>. Christine recently gave a talk at <a href="https://www.industryconference.com/global" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Industry: A Product Conference</a> on utilizing AI in the Product Management Lifecycle and we dove into this subject a little deeper. Our conversation took a few turns into:<ul><li>Considerations of AI in products</li><li>The importance of leaning into data-driven decision making as a Product Leader</li><li>Cognitive bias</li><li>Getting comfortable not being right and the importance of making bets</li></ul> Christine has a wealth of experience and her road to Product and organizational strategy was really interesting to me. Anyone heading in either of those directions would benefit from hearing her thoughts.  We'd love to hear from you! Reach out to <a href="https://app.casted.us/account/62/shows/81b7557b-52e8-4ea3-87b9-a8f2cdaa00e4/episodes/9b8e5049-3269-4d01-a208-ec35aa12083d/podcast@sep.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">podcast@sep.com</a> to share your feedback on this show.You can find more information about this podcast at <a href="https://app.casted.us/account/62/shows/81b7557b-52e8-4ea3-87b9-a8f2cdaa00e4/episodes/93ecce9c-0530-4661-a507-b77e2748f4ee/sep.com/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sep.com/podcast</a> and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening!

Key Takeaways

Get comfy not being right as a Product Leader

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Considerations for AI solutions in a product

01:12 MIN

Importance of balancing your gut with data

00:53 MIN

DESCRIPTION

Our guest is Christine Itwaru, she is the head of Product at Vitality.io. Christine recently gave a talk at Industry: A Product Conference on utilizing AI in the Product Management Lifecycle and we dove into this subject a little deeper. Our conversation took a few turns into:

Considerations of AI in products
The importance of leaning into data-driven decision making as a Product Leader
Cognitive bias
Getting comfortable not being right and the importance of making bets

Christine has a wealth of experience and her road to Product and organizational strategy was really interesting to me. Anyone heading in either of those directions would benefit from hearing her thoughts.

We'd love to hear from you! Reach out to podcast@sep.com to share your feedback on this show.

You can find more information about this podcast at sep.com/podcast and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening!

Today's Host

Zac Darnell

|Host of Behind The Product & Principal at SEP

Today's Guests

Christine Itwaru

|Head of Product, Vitality.io

Product Management and Product Ops professional with over 13 years of experience from the ground up as an IC Product Manager. She is passionate about the Product space and continue to drive engagement within our community to help product people become better at what they do. She's done the work, built the products, led the teams, created new roles, and have kept a focus on cross-functional collaboration, communication, and customer centricity through it all. She believes the power (and the weakness) of a team can be felt through the product by customers, and she's passionate about strengthening both the individual and the unit as a big step towards driving business outcomes and excellence in product teams.