Alternate career paths for Product Managers in AI era
Wed, Jul 15, 2026
3:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)
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Become the PM Execs Fight to Keep: Solve Problems that Matter
Rocky Sharma
$1.3 Bn P&L at Home Depot. Iron Man's helmet for U.S. Army. CEO at 3 companies
Wed, Jul 15, 2026
3:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
874 students
Go deeper with a course
Become the PM Execs Fight to Keep: Solve Problems that Matter
Rocky Sharma
$1.3 Bn P&L at Home Depot. Iron Man's helmet for U.S. Army. CEO at 3 companies
What you'll learn
How to address fear of losing your Product job in AI era?
What is this uncertainty & how should PM's address this fear?
The one thing keeping senior PMs employed in the AI era
The obvious answers are being sold. Rocky delivers the answer from 20 years of Executive practice.
What are the alternate career paths available for PM's in AI
Something besides Product Manager role
Why this topic matters
In the age of AI, there is uncertainty with job security with abrupt layoffs that may have no relation to your performance.
As a Product Manager or Business Manager who understands business, rather than working for someone else, why not achieve financial independence by alternate career paths.
You'll learn from
Rocky Sharma
$1.3 Bn P&L at Home Depot. Iron Man's helmet for U.S. Army. CEO at 3 companies
- Acquired a 45 year old small business with no savings and scaled it
- Head of Product at Home Depot managing $1.3 Bn of eCommerce platform
- Head of Product at BuildDirect (run by the founding team of Amazon Business) leading a 50 member cross functional team
- Product led CEO at an education company and at a non profit (both have been in business even before Rocky was born)
- Led a team to build Ironman's helmet (from the Marvel Comics) for the U.S. Army to diffuse bombs remotely to save human lives
- Product Thought Leader at Forbes magazine (published 9 original articles)
- Taught Product Management to learners from ~40 countries with over 300 five star reviews on pubic platforms
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