Product Innovation Series with Aram Melkoumov

Being the first product person in a company is similar to being a detective. You have to expose, articulate, prioritize and map out the founder’s vision. Sometimes you’re met with skepticism and other times you’re misunderstood. Tune in for this PM’s story of being the first product person in his company. About Usama Khan Downloading the founder’s vision onto a product roadmap was Usama Khan’s job...

About Aram Aram Melkoumov is the CEO of Crowdlinker. Crowdlinker is an end-to-end digital product studio based in Toronto and Barcelona. Crowdlinker turns 10 in the fall of 2022. He works with startups like Freshbooks and enterprises like Unilever.  Follow Aram Melkoumov  https://www.linkedin.com/in/melkoumov/?originalSubdomain=ca Work with Crowdlinker:  https://www.crowdlinker.com/contact 

Creating products that help people achieve their life goals requires a sober view of growth. Focus needs to always be purposeful, and distractions minimal. About Abhishek Abhishek Bhasin is Head of Product at Uplinq. He is a subject matter expert when it comes to credit. He is a product manager that has dedicated his career to financial inclusion. His other roles include being a Product Leader at...

About Mahdi Farra Mahdi Farra began his fascination with products when he was just 14. Today, he is a Director of Product Design at Ronday. He held many various roles including Lead Product Designer at Airtime and Senior UX Designer at Rakuten Ready. Mahdi has many interesting ideas about common practices that, in his view, are nothing but expensive distractions. Summary Mahdi Farra joins Sergey t...

About Filippo Di Trapani Filippo Di Trapani is a Director of Product Design at a Web 3 company called remx.xyz. Previously, he was a design lead at Automattic and Partner Operations Manager at Shopify. Creative work makes his heart happy. He wishes others would push him the way he pushes himself. Summary Filippo and Aram have a conversation about web 3 and product management. Filippo compares his...

Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips and DMs. About Pavan Singh Pavan Singh is the Vice President Of Product Management at Lynx Software Technologies where he works on enterprise infrastructure. He earned his MBA from the Kellog School of Business at Northwestern. Amongst other previous roles, he had a 6-year career at Cisco performing various leadership roles. If he wasn’t a prod...

Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips and DMs. About Manuel Breschi Manuel Breschi is the director of product at Typeform. Typeform is a no-code SaaS platform with tools that help companies grow their businesses by engaging with their audience. He studied at the University of Illinois, where he did his MBA, and has expertise in product engineering, business management, and marketin...

Fear and anxiety can derail excellent products. This episode is all about how not to fall into the anxiety trap or become a prisoner of your fear as a product manager. Our guest, Stephen Grillos, shares how he stays strong even in contentious moments with CEOs. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Who is Stephen Grillos? 01:57 | How martial arts and product management are connected 03:40 | Fail fast, NOT ship fast...

Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips and DMs. About Aram Aram Melkoumov is the CEO of Crowdlinker. Crowdlinker is an end-to-end digital product studio based in Toronto and Barcelona. Crowdlinker turns 10 in the fall of 2022. He works with startups like Freshbooks and enterprises like Unilever. SHOW NOTES: 0:08 | What is staff augmentation and why do we need it? 01:28 | How to exec...

Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips and DMs. About Aram Aram Melkoumov is the CEO of Crowdlinker. Crowdlinker is an end-to-end digital product studio based in Toronto and Barcelona. Crowdlinker turns 10 in the fall of 2022. He works with startups like Freshbooks and enterprises like Unilever. SHOW NOTES: 00:17 | What is product discovery? 01:25 | Who is normally involved in the p...

Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips and DMs. As product managers, how much should we rely on data? How much does data tell us about our nuanced realities? Can user interviews be manipulated to confirm bias? Tune in as we explore these questions. About Blagoja Blagoja Golubovski is Vice President of Product Management at Visit.org. Among other roles, he previously was the Vice Pre...

Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips and DMs. When you think of design, you probably think of beauty and delight. But, that’s not really what design is about. That’s just the most overrated aspect of design. What’s the most underrated? About Sean Dekkers Sean Dekkers is the Head of Product Design at Digits. Throughout his career, he held many important roles including Senior Inter...

Do you think of your product as part of a larger ecosystem or are you tunnel-visioned? Tune in to this episode to find out why your product’s ecosystem shouldn’t be an afterthought. In fact, by relying on strategic partnerships you can save money and strengthen your community. About Kabir Kabir Mathur is the Head of Product Partnerships at Typeform. He believes that positions focused on partnershi...

Product-led growth is not for every company. Yet, lots of people have jumped on the product-led growth bandwagon inexplicably and have ended up disappointed or frustrated. Tune in to discover why most people get product led-growth wrong and what to do to get it right. About Meraj Meraj Imani is the Director of Product Management at Fiix by Rockwell Automation. Previously, he was Group Product Mana...

Embracing product bias. Navigating conflicts with design teams. Directing clients that don’t have clear goals. Everything is on the table as behind-the-scenes anecdotes of client meetings and discussions are revealed. Idoh’s main frustration with B2B SaaS companies is that they don’t talk to end-users enough. In fact, he tells the story of his time consulting for a company that has never before sp...

Tune in to learn how to differentiate your product even if you offer something similar to your competitors, why you should integrate user feedback at the very beginning of the development process, and learn about specific situations where seeking customer feedback would do more harm than good. About Avadhoot Avadhoot Bhambare is a product executive. In 2020, he left his role as Lead Product Manage...

Conversation highlights:   - Removing biases in AI decision making and product management (data privacy, AI ethics) - Product Council at EdCast: teams, processes, and the CEO veto - Business epics vs. architectural epics: importance of planning processes - Bhaskar’s top 10 go-to metrics About Bhaskar Bhaskar is the Global Head of Product Management & AI at EdCast, a global e-commerce platform....

Highlights: - Six Seals of product development: from defining product vision to launch and optimization (key responsibilities of a PM) - Product-Market Fit survey: measuring value to customers - How Ale manages product teams at Payfit - Most reliable frameworks in the product development process at Payfit About Ale Ale is focused on enabling cross-functional teams to deliver user-centric experienc...

Highlights: - Why onboarding is a critical part of your customer experience - The significance of establishing a cross-functional onboarding team - What is the EUREKA framework - How to transition from free to paid and offering more ‘free’ in your product. About Ramli: Ramli John is well known in the Toronto ecosystem as a demand gen marketer. A product growth marketer with over 10 years of experi...

Highlights: - How the AI Product Management at Veriff builds identity verification system - Concept behind Probabilistic Vs. Deterministic world: from an AI Product Managers’ viewpoint - How to make a machine do what humans can do using Artificial Intelligence - Liisi’s take on fully autonomous vehicles by 2025 About Liisi Liisi's career focus has been on automating processes using machine learnin...

Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips. Highlights: - Decision-making process for building features in a three-sided marketplace at Shipt - Battling confirmation bias and setting OKRs that match company’s goals - Secret sauce of managing people: PMs must be outcome-oriented, not output-oriented About Vishal Vishal is a Product Leader with a passion for building, launching, and scali...

Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips. Highlights: - CTO vs CPO: How Jean managed both roles at Brigad - Why it is important for PMs to build roadmaps around initiatives before introducing features - How and why a complicated product feature led to customer churn at Brigad - Importance of stakeholder of feedback and transparent processes About Jean Jean Lebrument is the Co-Founder,...

Feel free to DM our CEO Aram directly with product questions: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melkoumov/ Specifically, in this event you’ll discover: - The right way to plan, strategize, design, and develop your MVP - The secret hacks we use to improve efficiency and output - A step-by-step breakdown of a real-world MVP we built for one of our clients’ This is what our awesome panel looks like: Aram M...

Conversation highlights: - Future of AI in the next 10 years (multilingual voice recognition systems) - How deep learning works at companies like Amazon, Google, and Apple - How Miguel builds product roadmaps from talking to internal customers at Rev - Buying AI data to build products from companies like Appen and Define. AI About Miguel Miguel is the Head of AI R&D at Rev.com, an online marke...

Conversation highlights: - “The Golden Cage” of Google employment - Product Marketing VS. Product Management from customer’s perspective - Why Product Marketers NEED to be a part of the early-stage product development - What PMs often forget to do after product launch Connect with Vaishnavi https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaishnaviravi/ About Vaishnavi Vaishnavi is the director of product marketing at...