Somehow I Manage Product Teams

I’m joined by Diana Stepner who is the Chief Product Officer at Chan-Zuckerberg initiative and has held product leadership roles at SimplePractice, Pearson, Kayak, Razorfish and Monster.com in the past. Diana also runs a cohort -based course on Maven called Product First Leadership - topic that talk about on this episode. We talk about : 1) What's unique about product leadership role 2) Tactic...

Sanchan was most recently VP of Product at Coinbase. Before Coinbase, Sanchan was Head of Product and GM at Airbnb, founder and Head of Product of Instagram Shopping, Director of Product Management at Yahoo, and Lead PM at Microsoft. In this episode we talk about : 1️⃣ Story behind Instagram Shopping - Hypothesis, Pitch and Execution, Decision making frameworks 2️⃣ How Sanchan built the Product Or...

Cassidy was the Senior Director of Product at Pendo and Vimeo and has spent the last decade on product, particularly in B2B. More interestingly worked all remote (we’ll talk a little bit about it in the end) . Cassidy also teached for Mind the Product in her spare time, and occasionally coach PMs early in their career. In this episode we talk about : 1. Myth behind building B2B products 2. How Cas...

Nicole leads the News Corp's mobile application development platform, which is the foundation for 32+ iOS and Android apps for News Corps brands - some familiar names like News York Post, WAllstreet journal, The Times, Sun and many more. In this episode we talk about : 1️⃣ How Nicole's built her personal brand as Mary Poppins of Product 2️⃣ How the Mary Poppins characterization has evolved...

Description I’m joined by Ani Mohan from Google. Ani leads the product team at Google Labs building three new generative AI products across (1) software development, (2) video, and (3) 3D. Previously, Ani was co-founder and general manager of GameSnacks, a web gaming platform reaching 35M+ monthly players. GameSnacks was funded by Area 120 and acquired by Google Ads in Jan 2022. Ani was also featu...

Shelly built the product & design team focussed on Partners at Meta. We’ll definitely talk a lot of about how she went about building this team in the episode. Prior to Meta, Shelly spent sometime at American Express in a product leadership position building the consumer mobile app that had over 17M+ monthly active users. Shelly recently started a 4 part blog series on LinkedIn sharing her tho...

Bandan is a Financial services and Payments product leader, has directly led financial services products and teams for tech companies and regulated financial institutions. Bandan currently leads the Buy Now Pay Later Business Unit for Riverty (Europe’s second largest BNPL player) leading Product Development, Product Management and UX teams. Prior to Riverty Bandan led Product at Booking.com, Gojek...

I’m joined today by Faraz Jamal - Director of product at Banyan Security Faraz and I were colleagues at VMware and someone that I’ve worked closely with for few years and even watched him transition into Product Management. Faraz left VMware to join an enterprise B2B security startup few years back and has symbiotically grown with the startup in it’s early stage growth. We spoke about how to go ag...

Ibrahim Bashir is VP of product at Amplitude. Prior to Amplitude, Ibrahim led products at Box, Twitter was also part of the team that launched Kindle Fire at Amazon. Ibrahim shares his thoughts on a very insightful newsletter on substack about building products, frameworks and thoughts from his personal experience. Ibrahim also runs a cohort based program for scaling B2B SaaS - we’ll talk a little...

Kent is the Head of product at Universe Software (a holding company for Vertical Fintech Businesses) And is also the Head of product for one of its’ subsidiary - Goldie. Prior to Universe, Kent was Director of product at Greenlight financial - building financial products for families and empowering parents to raise financially smart kids. Kent is also the founder and managing director of Atlanta’s...

Chantal Cox is a prolific product Leader at Meta leading 4 pillars (Discovery, personalization, new experiences and notifications) on Instagram focusing on creating communities and new messaging experiences for teens and 50M creators leveraging Machine learning.  Prior to Meta, Chantal was working on building the future of streaming and Entertainment: Watch Parties with Amazon Prime Video con...