Leah Tharin, Chief Product and Growth Officer at gotphotocom, shares insights on the first 90 days in a new product role, challenges traditional onboarding plans, and discusses gaining trust from your team. Other topics include navigating leadership, building trust, and identifying warning signs for career growth.

Leah Tharin, Interim Chief Product and Growth Officer at GotPhoto, discusses the importance of aligning sales and product teams, leveraging data-driven strategies for growth, and fueling product-led growth through customer success. She shares insights on deciding between product-led and sales-led growth strategies, the evolving dynamics of interactive demos, and optimizing sales through product-led growth.

Leah Tharin, a startup advisor, shares insights on leading through constant change, aligning teams with goals, allowing job trials, reality checks, planning for resilience, and mitigating risks in tech. She also discusses product-led growth, early leadership experiences, imposter syndrome, meeting guidelines to improve behavior, and the challenges of hiring the right people.

If you're starting a new role in product at whatever level, it can sometimes be difficult to get started, especially if you're chucked in the deep end.  In this week's podcast episode, we speak with Leah Tharin. She provides some insights on your first 90 days in a new product role and the best ways to gain trust from your new team.  Featured Links: Follow Leah on LinkedIn and Twitter | Leah's website | Leah's 'Productea with Leah' podcast | 'The Shit Sandwich and Other Terrible Ways to Give Feedback' piece at I Done This Blog Our HostsLily Smith enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Chief Product Officer at BBC Maestro, and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Lily also founded ProductTank Bristol and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath. Randy Silver is a Leadership & Product Coach and Consultant. He gets teams unstuck, helping you to supercharge your results. Randy's held interim CPO and Leadership roles at scale-ups and SMEs, advised start-ups, and been Head of Product at HSBC and Sainsbury’s. He participated in Silicon Valley Product Group’s Coaching the Coaches forum, and speaks frequently at conferences and events. You can join one of communities he runs for CPOs (CPO Circles), Product Managers (Product In the {A}ether) and Product Coaches. He’s the author of What Do We Do Now? A Product Manager’s Guide to Strategy in the Time of COVID-19. A recovering music journalist and editor, Randy also launched Amazon’s music stores in the US & UK.

Product leaders Omar Sallam, Liz Clow, and Leah Tharin discuss the importance of self-reflection and continuous improvement, investing in learning from other fields, tackling challenges and frustrations in AI, continuous learning and development for product managers, and the value of engaging in communities and sharing experiences.