# The CTO and chief product officer in the Age of Generative AI: A New Playbook for Technology Leadership – rajiv.com

<https://rajiv.com/blog/2025/05/26/the-cto-and-chief-product-officer-in-the-age-of-generative-ai-a-new-playbook-for-technology-leadership/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Rajiv Pant, friend and Weekly Thing reader thinking deeply about how AI is changing the role of chief technology and product roles. Rajiv's thinking on these topics has been leading the way for years. His 2014 article on [Three Roles of a CTO](https://rajiv.com/blog/2014/05/29/cto-culture-technology-operations/) still resonates with me. 

He highlights five leadership imperatives to drive in this AI transition. 

1. Build AI Literacy Throughout Your Organization
2. Redesign Your Hiring and Development Programs
3. Experiment with Radical Organizational Models
4. Develop Your AI Ethics Framework
5. Cultivate Strategic Patience with Tactical Urgency

This summary says it well. 

> The CTO role evolves from chief builder to chief orchestrator, conducting symphonies of human creativity and machine capability. The CPO role transforms from feature definer to experience philosopher, crafting meaning in an age of infinite possibility. Both must become bridge builders--between human and artificial intelligence, between present reality and future potential, between what we can build and what we should build.

Great stuff and I think he's on the right track here.

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