Product Thinking in the Age of AI: What Hiring and HR Can Learn from Product Managers
AI is becoming an execution engine. The real differentiator is how humans define success, make trade-offs, and own outcomes.
As AI takes over more “doing” - from building products to conducting interviews - the hardest part doesn’t disappear. It shifts: judgment, decision-making, and accountability.
In this session, we’ll unpack why product thinking is quickly becoming a critical skill not just for product teams, but for Hiring and HR leaders who design hiring experiences, define quality-of-hire, and make high-stakes people decisions.
Using AI-assisted interviews and hiring workflows as a concrete example, we’ll show how core product principles apply beyond software - and how HR teams can adopt them to build better outcomes with AI.
What you’ll learn
Why AI changes the “work” - but not the responsibility for outcomes
The key product principles that translate directly to hiring and HR decisions
How to define “success” in AI-enabled hiring (beyond speed and automation)
Making smart trade-offs: fairness vs. velocity, consistency vs. flexibility, automation vs. oversight
What it means to operate AI: feedback loops, measurement, and continuous improvement
Who should attend
TA Leaders, Recruiters, Hiring Managers
HR People Ops Workforce Strategy leaders
HR Tech owners, Transformation leaders
Anyone exploring AI in hiring and wants a practical way to think about it
Speaker
Jaidev is a seasoned product leader and technology enabler who specializes in translating AI and emerging technologies into impact at scale. Over his career, he has held roles at organizations including GovTech Singapore and Oracle, with experience spanning conversational and generative AI to large-scale cloud platforms, including program-managing the launch of three major cloud data centres in Tokyo, Seoul, and Mumbai. He has also mentored AI talent through DeepLearning.AI, product managers at General Assembly, and spoken at numerous technology forums across APAC and EMEA.
In his talk, Product Thinking in the Age of AI, he shares what HR and hiring leaders can learn from product managers about outcomes, experimentation, and building capability in an AI-driven world.