Product Perspectives

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 episode 6, my first UX Designer representative in this podcast, Pamela Sanchez, a product designer from Colombia at Torre, talked to me about being UX designer in a start-up. She's been a product designer for over a yea...

Scott Baldwin is currently at Productboard where he works as the Community Lead & Product Evangelist. He's a product management leader and a long-time member of the Vancouver product community with a deep interest in helping others find their opportunity in product management. Prior to Productboard Scott led product teams at Thinkific, Finning Digital, Central 1 Credit Union, Inovera Solutions, an...

My guest today is Shipra Nirola who is VP Product Ops & Delivery at FitXR, a company that offers virtual-reality fitness classes and has been operating remote even before the pandemic. Shipra has been establishing product ops as a main stream function to accelerate ProductLed culture and scaling from 2 to 6 cross-functional teams over the last year and a half. Shipra is a seasoned leader with...

My guest today is Hayden Chambers. Hayden is a Product Designer, who was born in New Zealand but has been working from Spain for the last 17 years. He’s worked across a broad range of design disciplines, starting in design and advertising, but also interactive and web design for agencies. Became a front-end developer for small startups filling the gap between development and user experience. His l...

In this first roundtable, I welcome Charlie Penwarden, Marketing Director at Ranrobin.com (featured in episode 3) and Lauren Macpherson, CCO at Eli5 and Noco (episode 4) in the Product Marketing team. Daryl Edwards, Director of Product at Rhythm Software, joins me in the Product Management team. For this third episode, we start from the word "roadmap" and talk how it means different things dependi...

In this first roundtable, I welcome Charlie Penwarden, Marketing Director at Ranrobin.com (featured in episode 3) and Lauren Macpherson, CCO at Eli5 and Noco (episode 4) in the Product Marketing team. Daryl Edwards, Director of Product at Rhythm Software, joins me in the Product Management team. This is the second round and we start from the word "product-led growth" and talk about adopting a flyw...

In this first roundtable, I welcome Charlie Penwarden, Marketing Director at Ranrobin.com (featured in episode 3) and Lauren Macpherson, CCO at Eli5 and Noco (episode 4) in the Product Marketing team. Daryl Edwards, Director of Product at Rhythm Software, joins me in the Product Management team. This is the first round and we start from the word "product marketing" and talk about communication bot...

This is an interview  I was really looking forward to: our first legal stakeholder talking openly about what it's like to be a lawyer in a tech company. Gabi is honest about what her peers can do better to partner with product managers and ease the tensions that occur when the legal teams are seen as "deal breakers". She shares her concerns about AI and how she works with Product and Engineer...

Rachel Spurrier is a Product Education & Operations Lead at Pico and a Content Writer at Merit. Throughout her nine years in tech, she’s worked as a data architect, research analyst, implementation manager, program manager, and product manager.  We talk about the role of Product Operations and how to get buy-in from Product Managers when introducing new processes. Rachel also touches on h...

My first UX Designer representative in this podcast is Pamela, a product designer from Colombia at a company called Torre, whose mission is to be the matching network for work. She's been a product designer for over a year and a UX researcher for 2 years before that. A creative soul, she's passionate about people, understanding problems and entrepreneurship. Despite working in a start-up, the proc...

In this first bonus episode, I invite a leader in product management, but with a twist: Moshe Mikanovsky started his career on the engineering side, specifically within the enterprise real-time B2B software space. He fell in love with product management after seeing the gap that existed between what customers wanted and what engineering produced. Moshe talks about how his engineering experience ha...

Lauren leads the commercial effort at two Dutch studios - Eli5, which builds custom digital products and Noco, which covers no-code design and development. Day-to-day she is responsible for planning and executing the business development, sales and marketing strategies for both companies. She also works on the validation and launch of the in-house products Eli5 creates. Lauren talks to me about se...

When I first saw Charlie's profile, I was curious: someone working in marketing and UX together, quite an unusual combination for two functions which are usually rather siloed. Charlie has showed me how marketers can learn from the user research practices, and how a new product trio (Marketing/UX/Product) could benefit an organisation. Listen and be immerged in a world of data, communication and u...

In this second episode, I interview Patrícia who is Product Operations Manager at OutSystems, where she is leading an internal product management academy as well as the external product evangelism programme, helping to grow the next generation of product leaders. Patrícia is the product manager’s best friend and I haven’t see many companies who have put that much thinking and effort into helping p...

In this first episode, I interview Eddie who is Senior Engineering Manager at Anaplan, a business planning software company. Eddie talks me through how he builds efficient engineering teams that deliver quality code, with a focus on people over processes and tools. Despite having worked with Eddie for 2 years, I have still learnt a lot about his personality and understood about what it's like to b...

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