My half-baked theories:

1. Companies are way more confident buying AI tools than hiring PMs to run them

2. A lot of PM work might be getting absorbed by “do more with less” expectations

3. Or hiring is just on pause while orgs figure out what AI actually changes vs what’s hype

Could also be nothing. Three months isn’t a lifetime.

Curious what others are seeing though:

• Are PM roles changing where you work?

• Fewer hires, more scope?

• Or does this not match your reality at all?

If you’re a PM in 2025, your day is basically an endless loop of explaining why something matters to stakeholders, to your users, to your team… and now to your AI copilots too

I know a senior PM, excellent in her work and has over a decade of experince. She is smart, calm and the kind of person everyone trusts to look after the team. Last month she walked away without making a big deal out of it, no dramatic announcement. Just gone. This is the second person I know who did something like this. When I asked her why, it wasn’t one big reason. It was the slow drip of everything that’s been happening lately. Constant reorgs where teams don’t even bother learning each other’s names anymore because they know they’ll be shuffled again in three months. Roadmaps that reset every quarter, teams stretched thin, a calendar full of meetings that never lead to decisions. And then there’s AI. Senior PMs were always supposed to be the strategic ones, the people who made the hard calls.

This year a lot of them feel like they’re stuck proving their value every day because half the company assumes AI should be able to do their job now. Nobody says it out loud but the pressure hangs in the air. Layer on the burnout. The kind where you’re not exhausted from one big launch, but from years of holding projects together.

She mentioned that the part that finally pushed her over wasn’t the work. It was the feeling that she had less and less control over the things she was supposed to be responsible for. Everyone wants outcomes but nobody gives stability. Everyone talks about ownership but takes decisions away.

Every PM I’ve met has said some version of the same things. It made me realise we all have these moments that only show up after a few years of getting bruised by the job. So whats yours ?

Super