Shweta Shriva
Shweta Shrivastava is a Senior Product Leader at Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company backed by Alphabet. Prior to joining Waymo, she was the CPO of Nauto, where she also worked on AI-assisted driver tools. Shweta has worked in product for over 15 years in senior roles at several companies, including Amazon and Cisco.
Career (separate track) Skills
Effective product management requires the empathy to question your own biases and the humility to recognize that not listening to dissenting signals leads to poor decision-making.
"Are you proactively trying to challenge your own assumptions is extremely important, right? As a big enough product manager as well as a seasoned product leader, if you're not doing enough of that, th..."
When transitioning to safety-critical hardware, the definition of a Minimum Viable Product must shift from 'speed-to-market' to an uncompromising standard of safety and technical validation.
"The MVP bar itself for safety is extremely high for us. So, the core product management philosophy also, getting an MVP out there and then iterating with the real world deployment. It applies, but it'..."
Overlay: Building AI Products Skills
Building trust in high-stakes automated experiences requires a design philosophy that prioritizes human-like predictability and system transparency from the very beginning.
"We had to integrate this into our design philosophy from the very beginning that this has to feel credible, predictable and the writers have to be able to trust the system. So that has been sort of th..."
Strategy & Positioning Skills
To avoid the innovator’s dilemma, leaders must intentionally seek out internal conflict and proactively challenge the foundational assumptions of their own business models.
"Are you proactively trying to challenge your own assumptions is extremely important, right? As a big enough product manager as well as a seasoned product leader, if you're not doing enough of that, th..."