Product Ops Podcast

Kam Dadfar (Director of Product Ops), Virginia Chiarentin (Product Ops Manager) and Charlotte Hayward (Product Ops Manager) from Onfido join me for the third episode of Season 2 of POP.  We find out how harnessing the power of data can unlock both process and product improvements in a fast growing scale-up and deep dive on the following challenges: 1. Using customer insights to improve a tria...

Tina Stewart (Head of Product Ops - Data&Growth Platform) and Shradha Kothari (Former Head of Product Ops - R&D) from Twilio join me for the second episode of Season 2 of POP. We discuss what it's like coming together to work as one Product Ops team under the Twilio umbrella post the Segment acquisition and deep dive on the following practical examples: 1. Scaling communication into and ou...

Vincent Poulain (Senior Product Ops Lead) and Jessica Orellana (Senior Ops Lead) from Shopify join me for the first episode of Season 2 of POP. We deep dive on practical examples of how the Product Ops team is tackling alignment at scale , including: 1. With hypergrowth, how do we know what’s happening across the org and have the right decisions at the right time?  2. How do we get hundreds o...

Michael Akkerman , the Chief Product and Strategy Officer @ Cardlytics, joins me for the final episode of Season 1 of POP to share his views on Product Ops and why he thinks it's a key role in a scaling product organisation. Prior to his current role, Michael served as the Global Head of Partnerships at Pinterest.  We talk about how important internal stakeholder management and collaboration...

Anabela Cesário , the Director of Product Ops @ OutSystems, joins me on POP this week to talk about how she focused on tackling impactful work with her product ops team which allowed her to scale the function from 3 to 9 people over a year. She has worked at OutSystems for over 5 years in various positions including the Director of Product Management. Her ability to understand and empathise with p...

Yash Singri , a Product Ops Manager @ Talkspace , joins me on POP this week to talk about how he's using product analytics in ProdOps to help drive data driven decision making. He previously worked as a consultant at Bain & Company before landing a strategy "externship" and moving into the digital health space. Listen in to find out how Yash works with the data science team in order to bring a...

Mayara Barros , the Product Ops Manager @ QuintoAndar , joins me on POP this week to talk about her passion for community building and how she's using it to improve the efficiency and alignment of 60+ product teams! May previously worked as a corporate lawyer and used to organise tech events such as TechStars Startup Weekend and SiliconDrinkAbout. Listen in to find out how she is helping teams wor...

Wole Atunbi , Product Ops @ Mono (YC W21), joins me on POP this week to talk about what it's like working in Product Ops at a seed stage startup (with less than 20 people!). Wole previously worked as a product manager at various startups in Nigeria and has now found a role that combines his experience in product with his background in business and interest in strategy. Listen in to find out more a...

Sloan Saunders, the Product Ops Manager @ Evidation Health , joins me on POP this week to talk about lessons she's learnt from over 5 years of working in Product Ops! Listen in to find out more about Sloan's journey with Product Ops from starting off as a product ops analyst to being a product programme manager and now hiring for her own team that she manages. Many feel that this function is quite...

Hugo Froes , the Product Ops Lead @ Farfetch , joins me on POP this week to talk about how he transitioned from a background in UX Design to Product Ops! Listen in to find out what design principles Hugo finds valuable in his current role and how this has shaped his focus in Product Ops. From conducting user research to pattern matching and using Wardley Maps - Hugo has a wealth of knowledge, expe...

Kaitlyn Melo , the Product Ops Lead @ Faire , joins me on POP this week to talk about how she leveraged her background in customer experience to bring customer centricity directly to product teams! Listen in to find out how Kaitlyn developed a Voice of Customer (VOC) programme for Faire against the backdrop of rapid scaling and the need for instant knowledge transfer. A good episode with lots of p...

Sharmin Abdo is the Head of Product Ops @ Dext (formerly Receipt Bank) and is currently hiring for her team. She has been at Dext for over 5 years in previous roles such as Marketing Ops and Customer Success. She also spoke at the PLA Product Ops Summit on Defining Product Ops . On this episode we chat about some of the key traits in hiring for Product Ops and her decision to create a competency f...

Marielle Velander is the Product Ops Lead @ Dashlane. She leveraged her background in user research and anthropology to develop a product operations function and has written about this for Mind the Product here . On this episode we explore how she is going about improving the quarterly product planning and OKR setting process at Dashlane. We talk about some of the tools and resources she has found...

Kevin Sakamoto is currently the Director of Digital Product Ops @ Dollar Shave Club. Prior to this role, Kevin spent over a decade working in product management leadership roles at companies such as Zappos, Target and lululemon. On this episode, we explore a question that is often asked in this space: "How does Product Ops compare to Product Management?". From common skills to key differences as w...

Gwera Kiwana , a Senior Ops Analyst @ 11:FS is currently setting up a Product Ops function. On this episode, we chat about how she identified the need for Product Ops, the relevance of her ops background from Monzo, the importance of manager support and how she's navigating the challenges of getting Product Ops off the ground as a one-woman team!