Product Manager → Product Builder: Is the PM Role Disappearing?
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What does the future of Product Management look like in the AI era?
AI is changing how products are built.
A new 2026 CPO Insights Report, based on a global survey of 1,500+ product leaders, makes a provocative prediction: the traditional Product Manager role could become obsolete by 2030.
📉 Traditional Product Manager roles
- Down 30% across industries
- Down as much as 70% in SaaS
📈 Product Builder roles
- Increased 10x in just one year
The emerging Product Builder combines product thinking with hands-on execution, increasingly using AI to prototype, build, test, and iterate at unprecedented speed.
And this raises some uncomfortable questions:
- Are Product Managers becoming obsolete — or are they simply evolving?
- What does a Product Builder actually do?
- Will AI eliminate product roles or make great product people dramatically more powerful?
- What skills will Product Managers need by 2030?
- Will the boundary between Product, Engineering, Design and Growth disappear?
Join us for an interactive discussion on the transition:
Product Managers to Product Builders
We'll explore:
🔹 The 2030 Prediction
What the latest CPO research actually says about the future of Product Management.
🔹 PM vs Product Builder
How responsibilities, skills and ways of working are changing.
🔹 AI as a Product-Building Partner
How AI is changing prototyping, experimentation, development and iteration.
🔹 The New Product Skill Stack
What Product Managers should start learning today.
🔹 From Roadmaps to Outcomes
Why product leaders may need to spend less time managing backlogs and more time creating value.
🔹 The Future of Product Teams
What happens when Product, Design and Engineering boundaries start collapsing.
🔹 The 2030 Career Question
If you are a PM today, what should you become next?
Who should attend?
This session is particularly relevant for:
• Product Managers
• Senior Product Managers
• Product Leaders & CPOs
• Product Owners
• Startup Founders
• Engineering Leaders
• Designers working in product teams
• AI/Product enthusiasts
• Anyone building digital products
📅September 12, 2026
🕙10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
📍iLabs Centre, Durgam Cheruvu Rd, Software Units Layout, Kavuri Hills, Madhapur, Hyderabad, Telangana 500081