Asha Sharma
AI Product Strategy Leader at Microsoft
Asha Sharma is a leading figure in AI product strategy at Microsoft, where she collaborates with numerous companies to develop cutting-edge AI products. Previously, she held key roles like COO at Instacart and VP of Product & Engineering at Meta, leading initiatives in product innovation and development.
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Planning in Seasons for AI Development
strategic thinkingAsha plans around industry "seasons", aligning on secular changes, customer problems, winning definition and a north-star, then sets loose quarterly OKRs and 4-6-week squad goals while leaving slack.
Maximizing Option Value Over Minimizing Regret
leadership perspectivesAsha shifted from a minimise-regret lens to maximising option value, investing in skills, health, and relationships that compound into more future adventures.
Focus on Loops Not Lanes
leadership perspectivesTeams must obsess over the continuous feedback loop—cost, rewards, UI, system design—rather than rigid functional lanes.
Platform Success Requires Invisible Infrastructure
strategic thinkingAsha stresses that reliability, privacy, availability and data residency, not myriad features, are what make a platform win.
Full Stack Builders Thrive in AI Era
leadership perspectivesPolymath builders who own multiple disciplines cut 500 touchpoints to speed product loops in AI-era organisations.
Products Evolve From Artifacts to Organisms
strategic thinkingShe argues products must ingest data, update reward models, and improve continuously, shifting KPIs to a team’s metabolism rather than feature shipping.
AI Auto-Summaries Speed Incident Resolution
case studies lessonsOn live-site bridges AI auto-summaries help teams of ~15 trace incident origins and next steps, speeding resolution and enabling targeted questions.
Agents Transform Org Charts Into Work Charts
leadership perspectivesCapable agents shrink hierarchies as organisations move from reporting lines to task-based collaboration and automatic routing.