Product Innovation Series with Aram Melkoumov

In this episode of the Product Innovation Show, Maarten van Kroonenburg, founder @ BW Ventures, and Aram Melkoumov dive deep into the realm of enterprise ideation. They explore the ins and outs of validating a business idea, with Maarten unveiling his unique, tried-and-tested processes for determining product viability, customer validation, and effective stakeholder management. The duo emphasizes...

Mounika Sanikommu, Senior Product Manager at Zuora, is sharing her thrilling journey with ChatGPT, experiments she runs, plugins she discovered and how she uses AI for data analysis in her day job. Monica and Aram also spills the beans on the future of jobs in an AI-dominated landscape. 

In this episode, our host Aram Melkoumov is speaking with with Jorge, a product leader at Resilia, about the growing influence of AI, particularly GPT-4, in the tech industry. They dive into the ways AI can change our everyday experiences and discuss the potential for AI to replace certain roles. Key Takeaways: The Power of GPT-4: Jorge reflects on the advancements in AI with introduction of GPT-4...

In this episode of Product Sessions we delve into an insightful discussion with Anton Aleksandrov, associate Director at CleverTap, on how artificial intelligence is shaping product. We get into the impact of AI on development, workplace efficiency, and the potential consequences of its rapid adoption. Show Notes: 02:15 - Role of GPT-4 in product research 05:30 - AI adoption at CleverTap 08:45 - S...

In this episode of Product Sessions, we discuss how chatGPT can be applied to Customer Success and Product Strategy. Our guests, Laura Blackmore from Cascade and Danielle Latimore, Senior Customer Success manager, share their insights on using AI to increase efficiency, tailor customer experiences, and navigate the ethical challenges. Show Notes: 0:00 - Introduction 2:37 - Laura shares her experie...

About Marlon Hope Marlon Hope is the Head of Product at Netacea. He is PRINCE 2 and Agile qualified, with years spent in banking, operations management, procurement, and logistics. The golden thread in his career is strong project management skills and consistent, high-quality delivery. SHOW NOTES: 0:11 | Episode intro and what’s in for you 0:57 | How a computer game made Marlon a better product o...

About Jeroen Van Hautte Jeroen Van Hautte is the co-founder and CTO/CPO of TechWolf, a startup with a laser focus on AI-based strategic workforce planning. Jeroen graduated from the University of Cambridge with a specialised natural language processing degree, Jeroen built the groundwork for TechWolf's Skill Engine technology and now heads the development within the company. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Jer...

About Monika Ocieczek Monika Ocieczek is the head of product design at Primer. Monika has also served as a CPO and co-founder at Gimi AB, a youth-first neo-bank, and as a product manager and team lead at Tink.  Monika is widely recognized for her work in Fin-tech and has been named one of the "Top 250 most promising Fin-techs in the world 2018" by CBInsights and one of the "The hottest startups in...

About Tudor Munteanu Tudor is originally from Romania, but lives in Barcelona. Before becoming a VP of Operations and Strategic Initiatives at Aizon he was a subject matter expert on Google Cloud platform working for SELLBYTEL Group. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Tudor Munteanu 0:49 | How has the experience of relocating from Romania to Barcelona been for Tudor 2:08 | What is Aizon, and what...

About Shelly Bardai Shelly Bardai is an Associate Partner at IBM Consulting and the Customer Transformation lead for Western Canada within IBM iX. She is based in Vancouver, Canada, and works with Enterprise clients in Energy, Mining, Retail, and Public Sectors. Prior to joining IBM, she spent five years at KPMG, leading their Innovation practice and Innovation Centre in Vancouver. Shelly is passi...

About Tadas Labudis: Tadas leads the Customer AI team at Playvox. He joined Playvox in 2022 following the acquisition of Prodsight, a text analytics startup he founded to help support teams get deeper insights from their customer interactions. In his free time, he likes to spend time with his wife and baby daughter, play drums and try his hand at perfecting espresso and latte art. SHOW NOTES: 0:00...

We all want to maintain high application quality, but without automation and customer involvement, it would be impossible to reach these goals. Automation plus customer data make your apps scalable, usable, and more efficient for your customers. Create a product and a solution that your customers will love and engage with, not just use. -  Ayal Cohen, Senior Director of Product @ MicroFocus. About...

About Burak Burak Kantarci is a Product Manager at Thundra where his main goals are to simplify developers’ daily life and make their workflows more errorless and enjoyable. He lives in Turkey and has a degree in Computer Science. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Burak Kantarci 1:17 | Original product at Thundra and the different pivots it has undergone 6:24 | Metrics to track as a product leade...

Manos Kyriakakis is a Head of Product & Growth at Simpler. They’re aiming to allow shoppers all over the world seamlessly checkout from anywhere. In the past, Manos has worked with other VC-backed startups in industries such as insuretech, ad-tech, and travel-tech, including Pricefox.gr, Avocarrot, Market Group, and Welcome Pickups. He has also collaborated with companies as a consultant and c...

Tom and Aram discuss how and why to build an advisory council. They discuss how to ask questions people want to answer, how getting close to your users makes work more meaningful for your team, and why you should never build a product alone. They also explore why you shouldn’t only think about who your customer is and what they need - but who their customers are and what their objectives are. Abou...

What happens when you accept that many people can do a better job than you? Why should you treat your company as a product? This founder took what he learned working at Amazon and Siemens and started his own company. About Pierre Brunelle Pierre Brunelle is the co-founder and CEO of Noteable. Previously, he was a technical product manager at Amazon Europe. He also held a role at Siemens earlier in...

What do you get when you rely on your intuition instead of just what customers tell you? The iPod. Today we discuss the creative leaps of faith you should and shouldn’t take when developing your product. About Ravi Swaminathan Ravi Swaminathan is the CEO of TaskHuman. He believes in egoless leadership. Egoless leadership is about being at peace with not having all the answers today and believing t...

You can be a product manager and have 0 technical skills. Sound controversial to you? Today’s product director has never written a single line of code - he has played professional soccer though. Find out how not having technical skills makes him a sharper PM. About Mor AviHanan Mor AviHanan is the Director of Product Management at ZoomInfo. He doesn’t consider himself a technical guy, in fact, he...

The way a design team is managed can fuel creativity or stifle it. What happens when you direct ideas too early? How do you challenge your designers without overwhelming them? Today’s guest built his design team in 4 months, this is what he learned. About Mike Townson Mike Townson is the Director of Product Design at Order. When he started at Order, there wasn’t much of a design or product team. I...

When Wrike was a start-up, winning was easy. Its biggest competitor was Excel. Today, it competes with Asana, Monday, Trello, and more. What do you do when your market becomes more competitive? How do you make it impossible for your clients to leave you? About Alex Zhezerov Alex Zhezerov is the Director of Product Management at Wrike. He is also a blogger and newsletter writer who runs a B2B SaaS...

What’s it like to run a team from Seattle that’s largely based all the way in India? And how can you develop your product using an evolutionary perspective? Get answers on today’s show - because today’s guest does both of those things. About Carmen Williams Carmen Williams is the Head of Product Marketing at Zuper; but, she’s also a Chief Evolution Officer. Her zone of genius is in leveraging evol...

How do you make sure you’re building product processes that scale? Can a new product manager easily pick up where you left off? Find out why hiring her first associate PM shook our guest today.   About Rachel Folz Rachel Folz is the Director of Product at Cerkl. In fact, she was team member #3 there - right after the two co-founders. They started working together after Rachel took great interest i...

About Ahmad Ahmad Kadhim is a software product leader who’s been in tech for close to 10 years now, mostly in hybrid roles at early-stage startups. He has also been a veteran of three other marketplace startups like AquaMobile, #paid and 500px. Being cross-disciplinary played to his strengths as a zoom-in-zoom-out thinker. SHOW NOTES [01:10] Intro [01:30] Being A Product Leader Working Closely Wit...

About Jeffrey Greene Jeffrey Greene is the Director of Product and Design at NinePatch. He has been working in the design space since 2006 and held roles such as Senior User Experience Designer at Quantros and Director Of Product Design at Stella Technology. He holds a Master’s degree in architecture from Harvard but didn’t work in architecture. Outside the office, Jeffrey enjoys reading books tha...

There’s too much focus on trendy concepts like being agile. There’s too much distortion because of ego and pride. How do you stay authentic, skip the trends, and have better judgment in your work as a product manager?  About Edoardo Ferrara-Bardile Edoardo Ferrara-Bardile is a Senior Product Manager at N26. He started his career as an HR professional and transitioned into the product space as a se...