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The Product Experience
The Product Experience features conversations with the product people of the world, focusing on real insights of how to improve your product practice. Part of the Mind the Product network, hosts Lily Smith (ProductTank organiser and Product Consultant) & Randy Silver (Head of Product and product management trainer) “go deep” with the best speakers from ProductTank meetups all over the globe, Mind the Product conferences, and the wider product community.
Episodes
385 episodes
How PMs can win with open source - Dan Ciruli (Product Leader, Nutanix)
Dan Ciruli is VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix. A computer science graduate of UC Berkeley, Dan spent a decade in engineering before pivoting to product management in 2003, a role that barely had a name when he started. Since t...
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What I learned from unbuilding products and systems in the Public Sector - Ayushi Roy (Product Leader)
In the private sector, product teams pick their customers, generate demand, and ship into something close to a green field. In the public sector, none of that holds. Ayushi Roy — Chief Program Officer at New America's New Practice Lab and a lec...
Everything you need to know about product messaging— Diane Wiredu (B2B, SaaS, Marketing, leader)
In this podcast episode, Diane Wiredu, Founder and Messaging Strategist for Lion Works, underscores the significance of this key element. Diane breaks down a step by step guide on effective messaging, while also providing insights on engaging c...
AI ate their search traffic. Here's what Springer Nature built instead — Prathik Roy
Prathik Roy is Product Director for Data and AI Solutions at Springer Nature, one of the world's largest academic publishing companies. A quantum chemist and material scientist by training, he spent years in R&D before gravitating towards p...
How to connect vision, strategy, and execution - Martin Eriksson (Author, The Decision Stack)
Martin Eriksson is a Product Leader, Co-founder of Mind the Product and ProductTank, and Author. His new book, The Decision Stack, offers a mental model for connecting every layer of organisational strategy — from vision to the decisions teams ...
The document that can replace PRDs — Rags Vadali (Founder & CEO, floto.ai)
What does product management look like when your engineers aren't writing code? Rags Vadali, founder of Floto and former PM at Google and Meta, joins Lily and Randy to talk about how building AI-native products has completely inverted his proce...
What I learned from an industry pivot - Kate Kempe (Director of Product, International Baccalaureate)
Kate Kempe made the leap from 13 years at Amazon — most recently leading Alexa's screened products — to head up product at the International Baccalaureate, an NGO with no established product function. In this episode, she talks through what tha...
How to build EQ as a Product Leader - Pippa Topp (CPO, giffgaff)
Pippa Topp, Chief Product Officer at giffgaff, joins Lily and Randy to talk about emotional intelligence in product teams — what it is, how it develops, and why it matters for leadership. The conversation covers recognising defensiveness as an ...
The state of product in Europe - Elias Lieberich (Product Strategy Coach)
Elias Lieberich, Founder of Product Matters and formerly a PM at Google and YouTube, makes the case that the real gap between European and Silicon Valley product practice is in its culture. He identifies three recurring patterns in European com...
How to fix broken systems - Kate Tarling (CEO, The Service Group)
Kate Tarling — consultant, trainer, and author of The Service Organization — joins Lily and Randy to discuss what it takes to deliver great services inside large, complex organizations. The conversation covers the distinction between p...
How to communicate the value of product work - Rich Mironov (CPO Coach)
Rich Mironov has spent decades watching product teams lose the room because they were speaking the wrong language. In his new book Money Stories, he makes the case that product managers need a second vocabulary: one built around revenu...
Lessons from Games, Big Tech, & Hollywood - Laura Teclemariam (LinkedIn, Netflix, Warner Bros. Entertainment)
Laura Teclemariam has had one of the most varied careers in product — from mobile gaming economies at EA to building Netflix's animation studio from the ground up, to owning LinkedIn's core identity products. In this episode, she joins Lily and...
How to align product work to business goals | Corinna Stukan (CEO, Bizzy)
Corinna Stukan, Product Leader and Founder of Fintech marketplace Bizzy, lays out practical advice for connecting your product roadmap to business goals. She explains how a metrics one-pager aligns day-to-day product decisions with company goal...
Lessons from Firefox and Twitter - Alan Byrne (Product Leader, Mozilla)
Alan Byrne, Product Leader for Mozilla’s Firefox extensions ecosystem, argues that the best product work is less doctrine and more judgement. In conversation with LRandy Silver, he breaks down why prioritisation frameworks like RICE and MoSCoW ...
Inside modern game design - Cheryl Platz (Riot Games, Microsoft)
Cheryl Platz, Cheryl Platz, former UX Director for Riot Games, Scopely and Author of "The Game Development Strategy Guide," returns to The Product Experience to explore how video game design principles can transform product development.
Product democracy doesn't work - Blagoja Golubovski (VP Product, Usercentrics)
What does alignment really mean in product teams, and why does consensus often slow everything down?In this episode of The Product Experience, Lily Smith and Randy Silver are joined by Blagoja Golubovski (VP of Product, formerly at User...
How to use Premortems to predict failure - Anu Jagga-Narang (AT&T)
In this episode, Lily Smith and Randy Silver host Anu Jagga‑Narang, a product evangelist at AT&T, to explore premortems — a powerful technique for anticipating product failure before launch. Anu explains how premortems use prospective hinds...
Building products for pilots: a case study - Cristina Bustos (Swiss AviationSoftware)
In this episode of The Product Experience, host Randy Silver talks with Cristina Bustos, Product Manager and team lead at Swiss AviationSoftware, about her experience launching a native mobile application in one of the most regulated a...
How to lead when you don't have authority - Sean Flaherty (ITX Corp)
In this episode of The Product Experience, host Lily Smith speaks with veteran product leader Sean Flaherty about a question at the heart of modern product management: how do you influence without authority? Drawing from behavioural science and...
How to manage product managers without micromanaging - Mariah Craddick (Executive Director of Product, The Atlantic)
In this episode of The Product Experience, Mariah (Executive Director of Product at The Atlantic) discusses the often-vague transition from being a great Product Manager to becoming an effective manager of people. Drawing on her background as a...
What high-confidence product managers do differently - Axel Sooriah (Atlassian)
Product managers are saving hours with AI, yet feel more uncertain than ever about whether their products will succeed. What’s going on?In this episode of The Product Experience, Lily Smith and Randy Silver sit down with Axel Sooriah, p...
Rerun: AI ethics advice from former White House technologist - Kasia Chmielinski (Co-Founder, The Data Nutrition Project)
In this episode of the Product Experience Podcast, we speak with Kasia Chmielinski, co-founder of The Data Nutrition Project, who discusses their work on responsible AI, data quality, and the Data Nutrition Project. Kasia highlights ...
How to build a product-driven engineering team - Matt Watson (Founder, Full Scale)
What does it take to build truly product-driven engineering teams? In this episode, Matt Watson — founder and CEO of Full Scale and author of Product Driven — joins Lily and Randy to challenge the longstanding silos between product and engineer...
How to prototype with AI in hours - Prerna Singh (CPTO, Avaaz, Meetup, IBM)
In this episode, Prerna Singh, CPTO at Avaaz, walks us through how AI is reshaping the way we prototype, learn and build digital products. Rather than replacing teams or skipping straight to production, she argues that AI shines when used as a ...
How to measure impact in platform product management - Teresa Huang (Head of Product, Bupa)
In this episode of The Product Experience, host Randy Silver speaks with Teresa Huang — Head of Product for Enablement at global health‑insurer Bupa — about the often‑overlooked world of platform product management. They explore why building in...