Fearless Product Leadership

As a product leader, what was a defining moment of your career? There are likely a handful of experiences that radically transformed the way you think about your work. In this episode, Part 1 in a two-part miniseries, we learn from five deeply experienced product leaders. They reflect on a learning that dramatically improved the way they approach the process part of their role. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Sean Murphy, Vice President, Digital Pharmacy, Optum Zabrina Hossain, Product Lead, Shopify Anthony Marter, Product and Delivery Coach, Harmoney Nicole Brolan, Chief Product Officer, Redbubble, previously Executive GM – Global Services, Xero Dave Wascha, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Zoopla and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

“Nail it, then scale it” is a common—and catchy—refrain within the product world. But what exactly does it mean to “nail” your product? What happens if you move too fast or too slow when rolling out a new product or feature? In this episode, we learn from six deeply experienced product leaders who understand the delicate nature of timing product releases. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Dave Wascha, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Zoopla Polly Howden, CPO and Co-Founder, Roleshare Zabrina Hossain, Product Lead, Shopify Audrey Cheng, Chief Product Officer, SnapComms Seth Roe, VP of Consumer Web Products at The Weather Channel, an IBM Company Ben Newell, VP of Product and Engineering at CBRE and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

Are you a product leader hiring new product managers for your team?  Hiring the wrong person to your team can negatively impact you, the rest of your team and even the rest of the company.  Fortunately, there are hiring techniques that will ensure you get the right person, with the right experience, approach and mindset to accelerate the success of your product teams. In this episode, we hear from Kate Leto, author of the book, Hiring Product Managers: Using Product EQ to go beyond culture and skills, who shares how to level-up your approach to the job description, the interview, the "culture fit" assessment using the Role Canvas to get the right people on your product team. Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact. Transcript available on fearless-product.com

Are you a product leader whose team struggles to make decisions efficiently? There are a number of underlying reasons why teams move slowly when they need to make product decisions. In this episode, we learn from five deeply experienced product leaders who have developed effective questions and frameworks to accelerate decision-making on their teams. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Dave Wascha, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Zoopla Polly Howden, CPO and Co-Founder, Roleshare Zabrina Hossain, Product Lead, Shopify Anthony Marter, Value Management Lead, Foodstuffs North Island Limited; Product & Delivery Coach, Harmoney Audrey Cheng, Chief Product Officer, SnapComms and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact. Full transcript of "How Do You Accelerate Product Decision Velocity?"

Are you a product leader who isn't sure how you should be evaluated? Are you trying to define corporate and professional goals for you vs your team or the company?  In this episode, we learn from deeply experienced product leaders who’ve held the product leader role at multiple companies how they measure their success as a product leader. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Troy Anderson, Chief Product and Information Officer, Aperture Rachel Obstler, VP of Product, Pagerduty Seth Roe, VP of Consumer Web Products, The Weather Company Nate Walkingshaw, former Chief Experience Officer, Pluralsight, author of "Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams" Nicole Brolan, Executive GM – Global Services at Xero, previously Chief Product Officer at SEEK and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

HOW DO YOU ACHIEVE RADICAL ALIGNMENT? (3 of 3 in Alignment miniseries) Are you a product leader struggling to effectively align your leaders and teams on critical decisions?  In this 3-episode miniseries on alignment, 8 experienced product leaders share their best techniques on why and how they align their organizations on critical decisions. In the third and final episode Alexandra Jamieson and Bob Gower, authors of the book “Radical Alignment: How to have Game-Changing Conversations That Will Transform Your Business and Your Life.”  react to the practices our product leaders use and share their best advice on how to achieve that much needed state of alignment. Be sure to listen to the other two episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Alignment miniseries: Why Must You Align People on Tough Decisions? How Do You Align People on Tough Decisions? Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

HOW DO YOU ALIGN PEOPLE ON TOUGH DECISIONS? (2 of 3 in Alignment miniseries) Are you a product leader struggling to effectively align your leaders and teams on critical decisions?  In this 3-episode miniseries on alignment, 8 experienced product leaders share their best techniques on why and how they align their organizations on critical decisions. In this second episode, Rachel Obstler, VP of Product at PagerDuty, former VP of Product at Keynote Systems Nicole Brolan, GM at Xero, former Chief Product Officer at SEEK  Lucinda Newcomb, Chief Product Officer at WeightWatchers, former VP of Product at Sephora Seth Roe, VP Consumer Products, The Weather Channel Prasad Gune, SVP Product Udemy, former SVP of Product at Signifyed, OpenTable Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) share the specific tactics they use as product leaders to align on key decisions. Be sure to listen to the other two episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Alignment miniseries: Why Must You Align People on Tough Decisions? How Do You Achieve Radical Alignment? Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

WHY MUST YOU ALIGN PEOPLE ON TOUGH DECISIONS? (1 of 3 in Alignment miniseries) Are you a product leader struggling to effectively align your leaders and teams on critical decisions?  In this 3-episode miniseries on alignment, 8 experienced product leaders share their best techniques on why and how they align their organizations on critical decisions. In this first episode Nate Walkingshaw, former Chief Experience Officer at Pluralsight Sean Murphy, VP of Digital Pharmacy at Optum, former VP of Product at Target Troy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Aperture Credentialing and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) share why alignment is a key responsibility of a product leader. Be sure to stay tuned for the next two episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Alignment miniseries: How Do You Align People on Tough Decisions? How Do You Achieve Radical Alignment? Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

Are you a product leader struggling to effectively collaborate with other customer-facing teams in product discovery?  In this episode, 6 experienced product leaders share their best tips and techniques on how they work with sales, support and other customer-facing teams to learn from customers and manage expectations to create success for customers and their companies. Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Zabrina Hossain, Product Lead, Shopify Marc Abraham, Head of Product-Engagement at ASOS, former CPO at Settled Audrey Cheng, VP of Product at Pushpay Ben Newell, VP Product, CBRE, former VP of Product at RewardStyle Rachel Obstler, VP of Product at PagerDuty, former VP of Product at Keynote Systems Nate Walkingshaw, Chief Experience Officer at Pluralsight and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

Are you seeking a new product leader role?  Or are you a CEO trying to hire a product leader?  In this episode, you’ll learn how 6 experienced product leaders interview candidates for product leader roles, what they're looking to learn, and what great answers sound like. Episode transcripts with more resources can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Dave Wascha, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Zoopla Zabrina Hossain, Product Lead, Shopify Anthony Marter, Head of Product, Plexure Swapna Malekar, Product Lead, RBC Royal Bank of Canada Sean Murphy, former VP of Product at Target and VP of Product & Engineering at CustomInk Rachel Obstler, VP of Product at PagerDuty, former VP of Product at Keynote Systems and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.