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From Manager to Product Leader : Skills & the Hiring Lens in the GenAI Era

18 April 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | CMRIT Campus , Marathahalli, Bengaluru

The path from Manager to Product Leader is being redefined in today’s AI-first world. As GenAI becomes a core competitive advantage, product professionals are expected to go beyond execution and step into roles that demand strategic thinking, business ownership, and the ability to lead AI-driven innovation at scale. Building the right skills and mindset is critical to staying relevant and accelerating into leadership roles.

Join us for an engaging Industry Connect session with Abhilash Jhadav, Ex-Head of Product & GenAI Product Leader at Amazon, as we explore “From Manager to Product Leader: Skills & the Hiring Lens in the Gen AI era.” Drawing from his experience leading AI-driven platforms and GenAI initiatives, Abhilash will share his journey, key inflection points, and the real shifts required to move from managing execution to driving product strategy and impact.

In this candid conversation, he will also offer an insider hiring perspective - what truly stands out in today’s PM talent, the signals that indicate leadership readiness, and how to position yourself in a GenAI-driven product landscape.

Key Takeaways:

  • Build clarity on the mindset and skills needed to transition from Manager to Product Leader in a GenAI-driven world
  • Understand what hiring leaders look for and the signals that differentiate high-potential PMs
  • Learn how to move beyond execution to owning strategy, outcomes, and large-scale impact
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**Please Note: If attending in person is not feasible, please register to join the session live via Zoom

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Abhillash Jadhav

 Ex - Head of Product & Gen AI Product Leader
Amazon

 
Abhillash Jhadav  is a Strategic GenAI Product Leader with 11+ years of building and scaling products across global marketplace, platform, Developer and supplier ecosystems.

He has led organization-wide GenAI transformation initiatives - from defining the product vision and API architecture for GenAI-powered platforms, to driving the adoption of agentic workflows and LLM-integrated systems at enterprise scale. His work spans the full spectrum of AI product leadership: shaping strategy, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and translating complex GenAI capabilities into measurable business outcomes.

Abhillash has been at the forefront of the shift from traditional ML-driven products to next-generation agentic AI systems — designing multi-model orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and GenAI-native product thinking that goes well beyond prompt engineering. He is recognized as a practitioner who bridges the gap between what AI can do and what a business actually needs it to do.

A sought-after voice on GenAI product strategy and the future of product leadership, Abhillash brings both the strategic clarity of a business leader and the technical fluency of someone who has built in the trenches.

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