Madhu Guru (@realmadhuguru) led product for Gemini. He thinks fewer than 75 PMs are qualified to do the work. That's a pretty wild stat. Madhu is now a senior director of AI at Meta, and he identified 5 skills that every PM working on things like Gemini needs to be able to do: 1) Vision and opinionated UX design 2) Model intuition to extract max value 3) Going from pixels to evals to hill climbing 4) Agentic flows: tools, context and safety guardrails 5) Deep user understanding He says it's scar tissue from hiring, so I'm inclined to believe him. He means AI-native PMs, but I really think it's fewer than 75 for model PMs. I found 46 open model PM roles, oddly close to 75. I read all the postings, and they ask for similar things. Here's what they look for, by percentage of postings: 1) Vision and opinionated UX design: 61% 2) Model intuition to extract max value: 61% 3) Going from pixels to evals to hill climbing: 76% 4) Agentic flows: tools, context, safety guardrails: 59% 5) Deep user understanding: 50% Now the last line of his tweet: "It is a rare, but learnable skillset. Only way is to build, build, build." I think that's the most important point, and the postings agree with him. Only 7 of the 46 require production experience. What they're really looking for is that you are building, and you can go build these things on the side. What I recommend: pick a task your favorite model struggles with. Write down the failure modes. That's the start of your eval set, and that's the product you should build, something that solves them. Start with a behavior spec for it: "the model should..." Those lines become additional evals. Then ask Claude Code to build a product that passes those evals, and iterate. You'll learn how to build on top of models. Model PMs are paid extremely well. The median posted base is $345K, and the range runs from $144.6K to $490K. As he said, it's learnable. Because there's so little supply, why don't you become one? Why don't you get that pay bump? I think you can, and I'm here to help. Let me know any challenges you face in the comments.