The Product Science Podcast

Rick Neuman is an eCommerce, Retail Technology, and Product veteran having worked across Canada, the US, and Internationally for retailers like Canadian Tire, Sears, and Walmart. Joined Flipp a year ago to help families make life more affordable, and now leads the product strategy and technology development for this Canadian start-up. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we cover Rick’s journey through product in Canada’s retail markets going from Sears to Walmart to Flipp. We also cover strategies on how to re-platform, the value of constantly listening to a customer’s pains, and how to empower teams and build trust in the shared product vision.

Radhika Dutt is the author of Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. An entrepreneur and product leader, she has built products in industries including broadcasting, media, advertising technology, government, consumer, robotics, and wine. Dutt cofounded Radical Product Thinking as a movement of leaders creating vision-driven change and is a frequent speaker at business events and conferences around the world. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we cover Product Diseases with Radhika. We cover how to identify when your organization is suffering from one, and how to avoid such problems. We also take a look at companies like Apple, Slack, and Twitter and what people get wrong about their success stories.

Tommi Forsstrom is a product executive that specializes in flipping startups to scaleups—ie. navigating the scary adolescence that begins at product-market fit. On a mission to pull product / engineering and design leaders out of the product development bubble to grow a new generation of Chief Product Officers. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we cover how a company needs to focus their operations in order to scale up to the next level, what role executives play for an organization, how to translate product values to founders & investors, and what role trust plays in your executive team. Read the show notes to learn more: https://h2rproductscience.com/ep402-the-2nd-tommi-forsstrom-hypothesis-effective-cpos-are-executives-first-and-product-leaders-second

Jocelyn Miller helps professionals in product, tech, & design to create their dream careers. She uses her background as a leader at Amazon and Google to help her clients make substantial increases in compensation, increase their impact as leaders, and ultimately do this with work-life balance. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we cover the difference between working in product at places like Google and Amazon versus smaller companies like Zazzle, what role fun should play in our work, and how Jocelyn helps clients find more fulfillment in their careers. Read the show notes to learn more: https://h2rproductscience.com/ep401-jocelyn-miller-hypothesis-growth-is-uncomfortable

To wrap up Season 3 of the Product Science Podcast, we look back at all of the great stories and insights our guests have shared. As a framework, we use the Product Science Success Path, a five-stage journey to putting Product Science into action: Agile Product Developers, Product Discovery Practitioners, Continuous Product Improvers, High-Impact Experimenters, High-Growth Product Leaders. Read the show notes to learn more: https://h2rproductscience.com/season-3-highlights

Heather Samarin is the co-founder of Product Rebels and has over 17 years of experience in design, development, and management of customer experiences. She has held multiple product executive roles for successful companies like Intuit. With Vidya Dinamani, she co-wrote Groundwork: Get Better at Making Better Products. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we cover how to conduct scrappy research, improve your organization’s usage of personas, and get buy-in from business leaders. Read the show notes to learn more: https://h2rproductscience.com/ep322-heather-samarin

Lisa Mo Wagner is a product person with a strong focus on inclusive and empowering product management. She believes the most effective product leaders excel at strategic skills like empathy, listening, and facilitation. Put your team first and trust they will put your customer first. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we discuss what inclusive product management is and how you can accomplish it in your organization. Read the show notes to learn more: https://h2rproductscience.com/ep213-lisa-mo-wagner

Nacho Bassino has been leading product teams for over ten years in different companies and industries. He also is a speaker, teacher, and coach, working with organizations in different countries to help product teams and product leaders improve their practices and skills to achieve greater impact. He is the Chief Product Officer at Best Day. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about his new book, Product Direction, and how to develop a product strategy in your organization. Read the show notes to learn more: https://h2rproductscience.com/ep320-nacho-bassino

Petra Wille is an independent product leadership coach and author of STRONG Product People who’s been helping product teams boost their skill sets and up their game since 2013. Alongside her freelance work, Petra co-organizes and curates Mind the Product Engage Hamburg, Germany. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about why people development is just as important as product development, and how Petra works with clients to identify and improve on gaps in their skillsets. Read the show notes to learn more: https://h2rproductscience.com/ep319-petra-wille

Mark Donnigan’s experience spans 20 years as a transformative B2B and enterprise marketing and business leader driving demand, brand development, and strategy for startup, emerging, and growth-stage companies, backed by some of the largest VC firms in Silicon Valley. He has managed teams of 25 people, comprising marketing, SDR/BDRs, and account executives producing $29 million per year in revenue with P&L budget responsibility of $3 million annually, including mid-six figures for marketing investments. He builds disruptive innovative startups, with a focus on architecting go-to-market plans and marketing motions that drive real business outcomes. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about how marketing can be a crucial component in finding product/market fit and propelling your startup to new stages of growth. We also touch on some traps organizations fall into that slow their marketing and product development down. Read the show notes to learn more: https://h2rproductscience.com/ep318-mark-donnigan