Marily Nika, Ph.D

Google

Gen AI Product Lead - Voice Intelligence 

TEDAI San Francisco

Leadership Team: Robots

AI Product Academy

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Founder

Harvard Business School

Thrilled to announce I've accepted an Executive Fellowship by Harvard Business School.

Executive Fellow

AI Product Leader @ Meta's Reality Labs (Avatars)

TechCrunch

TechCrunch Disrupt - Speaker, MC, Judge

-Launched multiple AI features within Speech AI & Google Assistant

-Health AI experiences for Google's AR Glass

AI Product lead, Google

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Learning Instructor (Technical Product Management, Generative AI for Product Managers)

Facebook

PhD Internship leveraging AI/ML algorithms for experiments

Data Science PhD Intern

Speech/ASR @ Google

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Based in Silicon Valley, Dr. Marily Nika is an award-winning AI Product Management leader & one of the world's best AI educators, with 10+ years of experience in big tech (Google & Meta) & PhD in CS.  Marily has created the best AI Product Course on Maven and the #1 AI Product Bootcamp (https://maven.com/marily-nika/ai-pm-bootcamp). She writes at http://marily.substack.com.

Courses: https://maven.com/marily-nika/ai-pm-bootcamp
Twitter: www.twitter.com/marilynika 
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/marilynikapm
Coaching: https://bio.link/marilynika
Enquiries / Private Trainings: hello@aiproduct.com

I launched the first cohort-based AI Product Bootcamp (including Maven's best AI Product Course), with over 800+ students to date. Check out my courses here: https://maven.com/marily-nika.

✨ I’m hiring for my community!

I’m quietly assembling a group of people looking for a meaningful side gig—people who love empowering learners, shaping communities, and bringing clarity to a rapidly shifting AI world.

I can’t reveal everything just yet… but if this sparks something for you, let’s chat.

Comment “interested”, tag someone awesome or reshare. Open to all levels and walks of life.

This is paid, remote (PT-friendly please), and fun.
Big things ahead 💫

What a day. I just signed the paperwork and will officially be offering my very own courses for Stanford continuing studies.

If you're interested in joining us (in person only), here's the first course as an instructor: https://lnkd.in/ghg_Term

AI Product Lead 
🏆 Woman of the year in tech'18, WISE Influence Award 2015 
🎤 3 x TEDx
👩💻 Advocate for Women in Tech 



Okay, I’m blown away. NotebookLM created this perfect 'About Me' slide straight from my resume—literally just by uploading the file.

Funny enough, I used to get paid to design infographics 15+ years ago… and at the time they took way too long.

If you want to try it yourself, here’s how:
✨ Export your resume or LinkedIn profile as a PDF
✨ Go to notebooklm.google.com
✨ Upload the PDF
✨ Click Generate Infographic and prompt it with: “Generate my career journey in a fun, playful theme.”

voilà! Google Labs

Couldn't be more proud to announce that my Harvard University course is now live 🏛️  

I’ve teamed up with the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) to launch a brand-new self-paced online learning module: AI-Enhanced Product Management. It’s designed to help PMs harness the power of AI — from connecting toolchains to building custom GPTs and making faster, more confident product decisions.

💡 It’s coming today to Future Proof with AI, D^3 at Harvard’s learning platform for those who want to lead the next wave of AI innovation.

✨ Use code MARILYAIPM at checkout to get your all-in-one access for the exclusive discounted price of $215 — available for a limited time.

https://lnkd.in/gDVMDr6s

Great to meet so many people at another book signing for my O'Reilly book, Building AI-powered Products.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by and shared what they’re building. I truly appreciated the enthusiasm — especially the person who told me they keep my book under their keyboard for quick access.

And a special shout out to the software engineer from the LEGO Group who brought us LEGO swag. Absolute highlight =)

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AI Prototyping Isn’t the Problem - your excuses are.
(Yes, I said it.)

We talk a lot about “unlocking creativity with AI,” but let’s be honest: most people never even get to the prototype stage. Not because they lack ideas… but because they let the wrong things stop them.

Here are the 3 most common blockers I hear — and how to break through them today:

✨ “I don’t have enough data.”
 Great news: early prototypes don’t need perfect data.
 You need representative data, synthetic data, or honestly… even fake data.
 The goal is momentum, not mastery.

✨ “What I want to build is too complex.”
 Everything feels complex before you sketch the first version.
 A prototype is not a production system — it’s a sandbox.
 Shrink the problem until it fits in a weekend. Or a night.
 (Your future self will thank you.)

✨ “What if it doesn’t work?”
 Then you learned something faster than everyone who didn’t try.
 AI innovation is iterative: test, learn, refine, repeat. Failure is a feature, not a bug.

AI prototyping is where creativity becomes momentum. It’s messy and imperfect. But it’s also where the breakthroughs start.
Stop waiting for the perfect dataset, the perfect architecture, the perfect clarity.
 Start with the scrappy version. The “just to see” version.

The one that turns into the thing you didn’t expect — but needed.
Let your creativity lead. Let AI accelerate. And let the excuses go.

🚀 Build the prototype.
 Everything else comes after.

Build with us on December, last day for 25% off today, 150 people already a part of it!

The power of community 🤯🤯🤯 I announced that we’re hiring contributors and expanding our community management team — and an entire community sprung up in the comments (1.4 people interested!). I’m *constantly* amazed by what AI is enabling for all of us.

To make things easier (since the link got buried!), here’s the application form:
 👉 https://lnkd.in/gFeKMe6R

I promise to reach out to every single person who applied. When we build community, there’s room — and work — for all of us. 💫

Improvisation at its best: printed 300 business cards with an extra “r” in my email for a huge conference—so I bought the typo domain on the spot. Chaos contained.

Retreating back to the safety of LinkedIn QR codes.

Best,
Marrily

Listen to my podcast with Claire Vo where I break down how I use AI on my day-to-day as a PM. Bonus: Sora cameo with me and Mark Cuban!

Building ChatPRD.ai | 3x CPTO | Startups, Leadership, Product x Engineering, and AI | clairevo on X | chiefproductofficer on TikTok

Dueling AI is one of my favorite little tricks, and Marily Nika, Ph.D (AI product lead at Google) shows us how this hack can make you a better product thinker.

In this episode of How I AI, Marily walks us through her AI-native PM workflow:

- use Perplexity to search reddit for product ideas + user pain point
- create pro/con agents to debate features
- set the vision for stakeholders using v0 by Vercel prototypes and (hillarious) Gemini veo3 + Sora videos
- judge different product ideas on NotebookLM

This ep is great inspiration for any PM heading into planning season, whether you're looking for ideas or just a way to get your boss on board.
 
As always, a big thanks to this week's great sponsors:
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the Thanksgiving dinner conversation is the most underrated AI-adoption moment of the year. 🦃
Some of the actual comments I got:

“Wait, how are you using AI again?”
“Show me something cool real quick.”
“….no, like right now.”
“Wait, it did that? That fast?”
“What tool can do x for me?”
“Nano what?”
“Why is it called that?”
“Oh, I want it.”

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