Sidebar Speaker Series: Building AI Product Sense with Marily Nika

​“Assess their AI product sense” has become a common interview goal but what does strong AI product thinking actually look like in practice?

Description: 
In this session, Marily Nika will walk through how she approaches AI product sense questions in interviews, focusing less on rehearsed frameworks and more on how to reason under uncertainty. She’ll break down how to structure your thinking when asked to evaluate AI opportunities, trade-offs, risks, and user value especially when the problem is ambiguous or incomplete by design.

The session will cover:

• ​What interviewers are really testing when they ask AI product sense questions

• ​How to reason about users, data, models, and constraints without over-indexing on buzzwords

• ​How to communicate judgment, not just technical familiarity

• ​Common pitfalls candidates fall into when answering AI product questions

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This is a practical, behind-the-scenes look at how strong AI product leaders think out loud—and how to demonstrate that thinking clearly in high-stakes interviews.

Speaker Bio: 
Dr. Marily Nika, Gen AI Product Lead at Google (ex-Meta), most followed AI educator, Harvard Business School fellow, best selling author, fortune 40 under 40. Marily has created the best AI Product Certification on Maven and the #1 AI Product Bootcamp and writes at Marily.substack.com.