It's Time to Lead Your Team of AI Agents

Product managers lead without formal authority. From the start of their careers, they make decisions, influence teams, create clarity and shape what gets done. Especially in the age of AI, leadership should be treated as a core PM skill, not something that only starts when you become a manager.

As agents take on more research, analysis, planning and execution, PMs need the leadership skills to direct, challenge and review their work and the judgement to know when to trust it.

This talk focuses on the leadership fundamentals PMs need in an AI-first environment: critical thinking, setting context and clear outcomes, delegation, challenging assumptions, giving feedback, managing AI costs, deciding when to keep a human in the loop, and knowing when to automate.

At BestSecret, we are building this as a team capability, not an individual one. This talk takes you through our approach: how we shifted the mindset, how we train product managers to lead their agents, and what we got wrong along the way. Working with AI agents turns out to be a way to develop leadership skills far earlier in a product career.