Product Talk CPO Rising Series: Former Medallia CPO on Evolving Product Leadership Through Customer-Centric Innovation
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Oct 13, 2025 Simonetta Turek, Transitioning Chief Product Officer at Medallia, shares her vast experience in B2B product leadership. She discusses the evolution of product leadership towards a GM mindset, emphasizing customer-centric innovation. Simonetta highlights the importance of embedding customer experience into company culture and warns about the pitfalls of focusing too closely on individual customer needs. She also talks about balancing creativity with operational rigor and the significance of curiosity as a key trait for great product leaders.
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Career Shaped By Diverse B2B Roles
- Simonetta recounts career stops from contact centers to AWS and verticals like agrochem and financial services.
- She says these varied roles shaped her B2B product perspective and CX focus at Medallia.
Product Role Has Become General Management
- Product leadership has shifted from pure technology focus to a GM mindset owning the customer lifecycle and business outcomes.
- Simonetta argues this shift is driven by market maturity, integration complexity, and tighter competition.
Measure What Matters Today
- Track core metrics but curate what matters today and be willing to move off old KPIs.
- Simonetta emphasizes hygiene metrics plus flexible short-term measures tied to recent launches.
