The Product Podcast
Product School
Hosted by Product School Founder & CEO Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, The Product Podcast features candid conversations with product management executives from the world's best tech companies like Google, Meta, Netflix, Airbnb, and Amazon.New episodes release weekly, unveiling actionable frameworks, unconventional best practices, and real-world examples you can implement immediately.Perfect for senior product managers, directors, and VPs hungry to build better products, stronger teams, and drive innovation at scale.
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Oct 26, 2023 • 23min
Balancing Customer Requests & Product Vision in B2B by Zoom Senior PM
Learn from Kris Gallagher, Senior Product Manager at Zoom, about balancing customer requests and product vision in B2B. Discover tactics for satisfying customer needs while maintaining a broader vision. Understand the role of distribution teams, identifying unique customer requests, and showcasing the product vision. Emphasize customer involvement, understanding context, and prioritizing requests using data.
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Oct 24, 2023 • 20min
Choosing Your Product Management Adventure by YouTube PM Leader
Aishwarya Agarwal, PM Leader at YouTube, discusses the challenges and skills needed in different product management specializations. They explore various types of product management work and offer advice on career progression and choosing the right path.
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Oct 19, 2023 • 11min
What Should a PM Resume Look Like? by Facebook Product Leader
Learn from Facebook Product Leader Agni Bhattacharya about creating an impactful PM resume, including strategies for highlighting relevant experience, quantifying achievements, and using effective distribution channels. Understand the goal of the interview process and how to align your resume with product manager job descriptions. Gain insights on the power of impact over responsibilities and the importance of resilience in job hunting.
Oct 17, 2023 • 22min
Making the Product Strategy Effective by Spotify Senior PM
Buket Baran, Senior PM at Spotify, discusses the importance of product strategy, saying no, vision, communication, and customer obsession. She emphasizes the need for adaptability, setting priorities, and using data insights. The podcast also touches on making strategy measurable, staying focused, and seizing opportunities.
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Oct 12, 2023 • 33min
Interviewing for a Product Role by DocuSign Product Lead Manager
Ankit Srivastava, Product Lead Manager at DocuSign, shares tips for interviewing for a product role. Topics include showcasing expertise, answering product sense questions, importance of proposing solutions, prioritizing metrics, strategic thinking, investigating user spikes, analyzing product performance issues, and interview preparation tips.
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Oct 10, 2023 • 49min
What AI Features to Add to Your Product by PayPal Senior PM, Episode 2
Riya Gayasen, a seasoned Senior Product Manager at PayPal, shares valuable insights on integrating AI features into a product. Topics covered include value-driven AI integration, identifying problems and scaling solutions with AI, processing data for AI algorithms, value-driven AI features, integrating AI features seamlessly, and ensuring diversity and mitigating biases in AI algorithms.
Oct 5, 2023 • 31min
Empowering Work with AI by Coda CPO, Lane Shackleton
In this episode, Carlos interviews Lane Shackleton, CPO at Coda, who discusses the growth of the product team, the impact of being a user of the product, transitioning to a collaborative platform, exploring the future of AI in product development, and the role of AI in changing interfaces.
Oct 3, 2023 • 34min
Panel Discussion: Product Leadership, Scaling Teams & Driving Impact
Join Sarah Handler as she moderates a panel discussion with experts Shelly Jairath, Nadeem Almoayyed, and Josh Kaplan. They explore expectation management, evolving team dynamics, and remote teamwork in product management. Highlights include setting clear expectations, driving impact with OKRs, transitioning to product leadership, building team cohesion, and the importance of in-person meetings and asynchronous communication.
Sep 28, 2023 • 15min
I Have No PM Skills, Can I Be a PM? by Microsoft Product Manager
Seema Bansal, a Product Manager at Microsoft, shares insights on transitioning into product management, breaking into the field regardless of background, leveraging non-tech backgrounds, and the key skills and qualities needed for success.
Sep 26, 2023 • 39min
Preparing for the PM Interview by fmr Amazon Product Leader
Former Amazon Product Leader, Ameya Thorat, shares insights on preparing for a product management interview. Topics include dos and don'ts, tackling tough questions, importance of asking questions and delving deep, preparing for the interview, introspecting and understanding why it matters, and the value of writing in PM interview preparation.
