The Product Science Podcast

Adam Thomas is a product manager with 10 years of experience as a “wartime” product person. As Director of Product at Informed, he built a product research and development practice from the ground up, teaching his team solid research methodologies as well as getting buy-in from stakeholders to build things the right way. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about what Adam does...

Named by Fortune as one of the top 10 influential women in games, Amy Jo Kim is a game designer, community architect, and innovation coach. Her design credits include Rock Band, The Sims, eBay, Netflix, nytimes.com, Ultima Online, Covet Fashion, and Happify. Amy Jo has helped thousands of entrepreneurs & innovators bring their ideas to life through her coaching programs at gamethinking.io. She...

Nate Andorsky is an entrepreneur who uses behavioral science to build digital strategies and technology for today's most innovative companies and nonprofits. He believes the key to unlocking the potential of technology lies within our understanding of the psychological factors that drive human decision-making. By combining scientific findings with outside-of-the-box thinking, he helps turn human u...

A recovering music journalist and editor, Randy Silver has been working as an interactive producer and product manager across the US & UK for nearly 20 years. After launching Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK, Randy has worked with museums and arts groups, online education, media and entertainment, retail, and financial services. He’s held Head of Product roles at HSBC and Sainsbury’s, wh...

Before we finish Season Two of the Product Science Podcast, we wanted to take a moment to reflect back on all of the great tidbits we’ve heard and pull out some key takeaways. At H2R Product Science, we use the Product Science Method to help you turn user research into an actionable plan to guide long term growth. In this episode, we look at the three steps: understand your customers, know your ma...

Jim Morris coaches product teams and leaders at startups and corporate clients. Previously, he co-founded PowerReviews (sold for $168 million) and was an early employee at Fogdog.com ($66 million IPO). Since graduating in Computer Science from Stanford University, he’s held a variety of roles in tech startups, most recently CTO. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about how Jim...

Allison Cassing is the User Researcher for the H2R Product Science Team. She brings with her years of product management experience focused on data and insights. She has a deep interest in user experience and motivation. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about what Allison’s learned over the course of her career in product management and user research, and how to make sure yo...

Since 2010, Audrey Crane has been a Partner at DesignMap, a strategic product design agency that helps ambitious enterprise software companies. She loves figuring out how to make helping people good business at places like Docker, Salesforce, and eBay. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about Audrey's new book, What CEOs Need to Know About Design , and the changes organization...

Mary Wharmby is a designer and educator with 20 years of experience guiding teams in the creation of both customer-facing products and services and employee-facing tools and systems. She is the former Head of Design Transformation at the global bank, BBVA, where she architected and led a team dedicated to driving innovation by strategically infusing design across the entire organization. Mary is c...

Matt Wallaert is a behavioral scientist working at the intersection of technology and human behavior. He headed product at two successful startups, then Microsoft and Microsoft Ventures, and is now the Chief Behavioral Officer at Clover and author of Start at the End: How to build products that create change , with a slate of pro-social side projects including GetRaised, SalaryOrEquity, and IAsked...

Heather Browning is VP of Product at Ria Health, which has an innovative program that enables people to reduce their drinking. Heather is a growth product leader with a background in game design, cognitive psychology, and behavioral economics. She uses this expertise to build products aimed at sustained behavior change with a focus on improving engagement and retention. In this episode of the Prod...

Dan Melinger has led the development of disruptive products in broadcast and social media, gaming, education, and commerce. His consultancy, Realtime Lab, works with companies and projects of all stages. Previously, Dan served as VP Product at FanDuel, where he developed the company’s newest games. He’s also started product companies Socialight and Edco. In this episode of the Product Science Podc...

Joe Lalley is the Experience Design Leader in Digital Transformation at PriceWaterhouse Coopers, where he helps people and teams solve problems through the process of design. To make this happen, he designs and facilitates workshops, meetings, and design sprints to help teams take a user-centric approach to their business challenges. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about ho...

David Bland is the founder of Precoil and the co-author of the new book, Testing Business Ideas . In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about how important it is to get cross-functional teams to agree on the assumptions that must be true for your business to succeed and discuss different approaches to testing the assumptions. Read the show notes to learn more.

Dan Mason is a veteran Head of Product, coach and consultant based in NY who works with teams of all stages to develop great product managers and drive great outcomes, drawing on years of experience at organizations big and small, including ESPN, People Magazine, and Shutterstock. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about how to take a pragmatic approach to product development...

Ben Foster is the Chief of Product at GoCanvas and the founder of Prodify, a product management consultancy. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about Ben’s journey in product management from the early days of the dotcom bubble to where he thinks the industry is headed today, and what he looks for when he’s interviewing for a new position. Read the show notes to learn more.

Susan Goebel (GO-bull) is a 20 year veteran at bringing products to market around the world. This leader in the field of bioscience research and product development uncovers global market opportunities and partnerships to help inventors and entrepreneurs bring ideas to fruition, with experience in biotech, pharma, and software development. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk ab...

John Cutler is the Product Evangelist at Amplitude, a product analytics platform that helps product managers. His career spans music, entrepreneurship, Product Management, and UX Research at such companies as ZenDesk, AdKeeper, and more. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about what patterns John sees working with product teams on their process. Read the show notes to learn mo...

Babur Habib is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Portfolio School, with years of experience including cofounding edtech company Kno which sold to Intel, being the VP of Video at Shutterstock, the Head of Engineering and Development at Intel Education, and a technical consultant and manager at Exponent. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about how the Portfolio School is trying to...

Kate Rutter is an adjunct professor of design at the California College of the Arts and a principal at Intelleto, with decades of experience in product design and management, infusing time at Adaptive Path and Luxr. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about how to hire for right traits, work-life balance, and how to adapt a hacker/DIY ethos in your work. Read the show notes to...

Jeff Gothelf is the co-author of Lean UX and Sense and Respond , as well as the co-founder of Sense and Respond Press , in collaboration with Season 1 guest Josh Seiden. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about how making the transition to Agile needs to be organizational, the common mistakes that happen when different parts of the business are out of synch, and how to fix the...

Connie Kwan is a storyteller and product executive and the founder of Product Maestro. With 15-years in Product Management, she's led teams and shipped products at Atlassian, Microsoft, SunPower, Cypress and startups such as Carrot, and Sourcemap. Her company Product Maestro leverages theatre techniques to help growth-stage companies craft and deliver powerful stories about their products. In this...

Thor Ernstsson is a serial entrepreneur who is currently the founder and CEO of Alpha. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about his varied experience running product teams at all levels of the industry, what to look for in new hires, and how to maintain an experimental mindset. Read the show notes to learn more.

Janna Bastow is the co-founder and CEO of ProdPad. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about how she learned how to really be agile and lean, why she started ProdPad, and how Prodpad makes product decisions. Read the show notes to learn more.

Nir Eyal’s new book, Indistractible , launches this week. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about how to put behavior science to work for you so that you can build practices and habits that help you avoid distraction and get things done. Nir is also the author of the bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and writes, consults, and teaches about the inte...