The Product Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

PayPal Senior PM, Riya Gayasen, dives into the realm of AI-driven product roadmapping. Learn how AI can improve product road mapping, analyze customer data, and make decisions. Explore the process of using AI to build a product roadmap and address biases and challenges in AI-driven product roadmap creation.

Discover the importance of effective communication in product management and the challenges that come along with it. Explore different communication frameworks and detailed structures to enhance your communication skills. Learn about the different sections involved in effective communication and the framework for a strong opening statement. Gain valuable tips and strategies to elevate your communication skills and encourage audience participation.

Join Khushboo Goel as she hosts a panel discussion on Product Management in the Age of AI. Experts Siddarth Shukla, Prashant Tomar, Omkar Chetty, and Shantanu Jha discuss AI's definitions, essential PM skills, challenges, synergy with data scientists, and disruptive potential. They also explore the resurgence of the digital twin concept with generative AI and leveraging AI to reduce costs in PM. The importance of regulations and ethics in the AI industry is emphasized, and the episode concludes with a focus on responsible use of AI technology.