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Daniel Wentsch

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Key attitudes and skills for product managers to thrive amid AI-driven change: blurred roles, curiosity, humility, growth mindset.

12 Jul 2026

So what I'm hearing there is roles will become blurrier, that PMs need to do more design, engineers need to do more PMing. People need more data skills. So to me, those are the two takeaways is just learn to be more comfortable with chaotic world. Just AI every week. There's like, oh, this is changing everything. Rethink the roadmap. And then also the roles will be less divided. People will need to learn to do many roles and chip in. Awesome. So building on that, Ezine, when you hire PMs these days, when you're looking for product leaders, is there something you looking for more and more because you believe this will be more important to be successful in a world where AI is just changing everything I think Ajit started he laid the foundation when he said it day one And when you working and thinking about building product in this type of era or space it's important that you remember that. So I'm going to talk about what it is that I typically will look for from an attitudes, values, and behaviors point of view, as well as a skills point of view. I'm currently working with a firm in LA and we're building curriculum for their PMs as well as helping them recruit. And the things that we've honed in on are curiosity. And I know it's been said over and over again, but it matters more now. It is, is this person humble and curious enough to admit they don't know and are willing to start as a learner? Do they truly have a growth mindset where they are okay being taught by someone else, no matter how senior they have become? That is very important, that humility and curiosity mixed together. The second part is what I'd call agency.