Product Perspectives

My guest today is Justin Zalewski, who is a people-centered design leader with 10+ years of experience in product design, product strategy, and service design. As Director of Product Design and Strategy at Studio Science, Justin leads a team of talented product designers and works with clients to solve business problems through design. He and his team are experts in rapid prototyping and running e...

My guest today is Mirela Mus who has 12+ years of product management experience, a background in Computer Science, and an MBA. She is the Founder of Product People, a Product Management Consultancy with 40 in-house full-time PMs who help as Interims in Europe’s top Product companies. As an Interim PM, she has personally contributed to Tier, Zalando, Omio, WHO (World Health Organization), and conti...

My guest today is Charlie Sharzer who is product operations lead at Palantir Technologies, where he created the operations function for the Gotham product organization. Previously, he worked in business development as a deployment strategist in Palantir's U.S. Government business, where he partnered with users, built product, and led client engagements. Before coming to Palantir, Charlie taught hi...

Are you keeping up with the latest trends in product management? Check out this bonus episode on the key trends and challenges that product organizations will face in 2023 and beyond. From the growing importance of education and soft skills to the rise of product-led strategies and the increasing role of data and low-code/no-code tools, this episode covers it all. Stay ahead of the curve in the dy...

My guest today is Vishali Dialani who has been a strategy-driven customer experience professional for 6+ years. She’s recognized for creating human-centred design systems for complex digital products and leading marketing initiatives across diverse industries from advertising, education and fintech. With a collaborative mindset to make a difference, Vaishali loves to understand customer needs, map...

Rishabh Bhandari is the Founder & CEO at Content Beta, a video-design-audio studio that has helped over 80 B2B software companies create engaging product marketing content to successfully drive engagement with marketing, generate more MQLs and signups, improve win rates, and get faster production adoption using product videos and retain users with technical content. Rish has built Content Beta...

Andrew Forman founded Givz , the first Purpose Driven Performance marketing platform. Prior to Givz , Andrew spent six years in investment banking where he worked on mergers and acquisitions and he was also the treasurer of a nonprofit with the mission of enhancing literacy in Africa. Andrew received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his BA in mathematics and economics from Hamilton College...

My guest today is Chet Lamba who is a seasoned digital product & tech leader serving on the executive team at Smooth Commerce with previous roles at IBM and TheAppLabb. With over a decade of experience and the launch of 80+ digital products, his specialty is creating strategy and momentum for execution on the development of software products despite legacy systems, budgets, and operational hur...

Welcome back to Product Perspectives to hear from Zuzana, Aldair and Jakub. In this third and last episode of the series with the product trio at Mews, we discussed measuring success as a product team and what a good product looks like. If you or your company are stuck with vanity metrics, you'll get some great tips on how to start looking at what matters and get your leadership onboard. You'll al...

Zuzana Hrušovská is a Senior Product Designer and has been with Mews for a little over 3 years and has worked in each of their B2B teams, sometimes even with all of them at once. She focuses on improving reservation journey for our users and their guest. Aldair Borges is a Product Manager who moved to the Czech Republic all the way from Zimbabwe. He helps Mews build products that manage the operat...

Zuzana Hrušovská is a Senior Product Designer and has been with Mews for a little over 3 years and has worked in each of their B2B teams, sometimes even with all of them at once. She focuses on improving reservation journey for our users and their guest. Aldair Borges is a Product Manager who moved to the Czech Republic all the way from Zimbabwe. He helps Mews build products that manage the operat...

My guest today is a UX designer I’ve known for years and who has inspired me to get into product management. Philippe Clairet has been working in what we know today as "digital products" for 15 years. He’s worked across multiple domains such as finance, travel, online marketplaces, online planning, supply chain and web3. His roles have also varied a little along the way, including managing a UX te...

This is a bonus episode with Brenden Kumarasamy who is the founder of MasterTalk. He coaches ambitious executives and entrepreneurs to become top 1% communicators in their industry. He also has a popular YouTube channel called MasterTalk, with the goal of providing free access to communication tools for everyone in the world. In this podcast, Brenden talks about his journey and the challenges he’s...

My guest today is Faris Aranki, Founder and Chief Effectiveness Officer at Shiageto Consulting. Faris has spent over 20 years delivering strategic change for the corporate and non-corporate worlds, including 12 years working as a strategy consultant, 4 years working in the strategy team of Centrica (the UK’s largest utility firm), 4 years working in education and development, Non-exec director and...

My guest today is Jareer Ali. Jareer is looking after the Product Marketing of AssetSonar, which is an IT Asset Management Solution. Before joining this team, Jareer got an MBA in one of the Top Business schools in Asia. Jareer is a truly international professional; not only he's working in a diverse and multicultural team - but he also did a exchange in France and works with an American company)....

Welcome back to Product Perspectives for this episode about growth, one of the hot topics in products. I’ve talked to Ken Rudin who is the SVP of user growth at ThoughtSpot, a modern BI solution which I use as part of my current role. Ken is the SVP of User Growth at ThoughtSpot, leading Product Led Growth initiatives across the company, increasing user acquisition and engagement. Previously, he l...

Dear listeners, it’s been 4 weeks without an episode of Product Perspectives and this is because I was first on holidays and then off sick – I’m sorry that you can still hear this is my voice. I do have episodes in the pipeline though and I’ve got some great announcements to make. The first one is Product Perspectives is growing, with more listeners at each episodes, and that’s thanks to you. If y...

My guest today is Sophie Heller. Sophie leads the CX Services team at Outschool, a marketplace of live-online classes for kids. She joined the company as employee #2 as its first customer support agent and has since seen the company grow to 200; the support inbox now contains 100+ people, spread over several internal teams and an outsourcer. Sophie's team works to equip the inbox, including 50+ ou...

My guest today is Romain Fleury who is Release Readiness Consultant at Cornerstone, a Learning and Employee Growth platform provider. He works on communicating releases to HR and IT administrators, making sure they adopt the latest functionality and get the most of their platform through releases. Romain’s role isn’t common and would more often than not be covered by product marketing teams. We ta...

I welcome today Jesse DeRose who is a technologist and a storyteller. He helps engineering teams make cost-conscious decisions and believes the biggest challenges facing companies aren’t technical, but human. His mission in life is to transform technology organizations by creating company cultures in which diverse, collaborative teams can thrive. What I loved about this episode is all the practica...

My guest today is Ines Beatrix. Ines is a professional certified career and leadership coach. She coaches people who want to make a positive impact on the world and want to play a bigger game in their careers. With over 8 years of experience in design thinking, communications, mindfulness and coaching, she encourages people to dream big and cultivate a sense of inner calm and deep confidence. Befo...

My guest today is Orian Roturier, Head of Growth & Demand Generation at GitGuardian. As an engineer turned marketer, he’s passionate about building the right data pipelines and processes that will make products grow. He used to work in consulting to advise all kinds of companies on their acquisition strategy. Then he chose to focus his efforts on GitGuardian, a cybersecurity SaaS company, as h...

My guest today is Katie Keate Johnson. Katie has spent the last decade working in B2B sales, that includes 7 years with Linkedin talent solutions where she was a sales rep but also a sales leader. After Linkedin, she was the first sales hire at an early stage company called ROOM, where she built the sales team up to 15 members. Then, she was the Head of Sales at Betterment, selling their product t...

Welcome to this roundtable between product management and UX Design. On the UX Design team, I’m please to welcome two of my previous guests – Pamela Sanchez and Hayden Chambers. In team product management, I’m please to welcome for the first time Iryna Struk, a Product Manager at HandsHQ. In this third and final round, we talk about KPIs. Should companies have success metrics for their UX Design f...

Welcome to this roundtable between product management and UX Design. On the UX Design team, I’m please to welcome two of my previous guests – Pamela Sanchez and Hayden Chambers. In team product management, I’m please to welcome for the first time Iryna Struk, a Product Manager at HandsHQ. In this second round, we talk about A/B Testing. Does your company do A/B testing or have you ever done it at...