The Engineering Leadership Podcast

Rewriting the Engineering Leadership Playbook: An ELC Annual 2025 Preview #229

The End-to-End Engineer: How WorkOS Collapsed the Talent Stack for High-Velocity Execution, Ownership & Better Product Decisions w/ Michael Grinich

Influencing without authority: What every engineering leader can learn from security w/ Srinath Kuruvadi #227

Vision-first leadership & reimagining product w/ “Shift Out,” Do-It-as-a-Service & Jobs-to-Be-Done w/ John Amaral #226

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Scaling decision-making, designing eng orgs for speed & scope as underrated leverage w/ Dhruv Parthasarathy #225

The evolving velocity playbook, building product taste & exceptional product experiences in the AI era w/ Loïc Houssier #224

Rapid Prototyping, Lightning Pods & the End of PRDs: Redefining product development & EPD in the age of AI w/ Nissim Lehyani #223

No New Episode - But We Launched Something New... Introducing the ELC Forum!

From architect to AI exec: Scaling leadership, maintaining credibility & effective communication to non-technical execs w/ Prashant Ramarao #222

The Startup Epoch: Rethinking Company Building & Defensibility in an AI World w/ Craig McLuckie #221

AMD’s unified hardware + software strategy & building an open-source AI ecosystem w/ Anush Elangovan #220

Lessons Leading EPD: Mindset, decision-making, 80/20 product strategy & pivoting for leverage/speed w/ Farnaz Azmoodeh #219

Empowering Teams & Cultivating True Ownership in Engineering Orgs w/ Wade Chambers #218

Building partnerships w/ complex stakeholders, aligning tech debt w/ business value & decisive vs. thoughtful decision-making #217

From early days to IPO: Scaling leadership, enterprise growth, product ownership, & outgrowing your failure modes w/ Jon Hyman #215

Essential questions & leadership principles to navigate change, fear & uncertainty w/ Rukmini Reddy #214

Building platforms, ecosystems & open-source communities: Lessons from Viam & MongoDB w/ Eliot Horowitz @ Viam #213

Leading transformation, inspiring vision & empowering teams to operate autonomously w/ Kevin Stewart #212

Accelerating & upskilling your AI learning journey w/ Maher Hanafi #211

Data governance, adversarial testing & more - Essential strategies to scale AI responsibly in a shifting regulatory environment w/ Jim Palmer #210

Capturing & synthesizing unbiased insights from users, your open source community & yourself w/ James Campbell #209

Upskilling: practices to improve hiring, storytelling & structuring personal/leadership problems with engineering principles #208

GTM Insights from Top DevTool companies w/ David Mytton #207

Navigating Rapid Change: Skills to Cultivate Resilience, Adaptability & Creativity in Engineering Teams w/ Melody Meckfessel #206

Building Trust: Strategic humor, bridging communication gaps & enabling your team to do more #205

Faster iteration & execution: Insights from Google Workspace’s AI product experience journey w/ Anurag Agarwal #204

Winning Hearts & Minds: Effective Strategies for Leading Through Change from IC to EM, post M&A and more w/ Kathryn Vandiver #203

The four modes of coaching & navigating career growth in expanding or contracting companies w/ James Birchler #202

Unleashing potential in your employees & strategies to grow leadership skills in your org w/ Natalie Glance #201

Building an AI-first company & interactive AI avatar leadership use-cases w/ Rong Yan #200

Re-defining & elevating engineering’s strategic role with the business w/ Rajashree Pimpalkhare #199

How engineering leaders can better drive business outcomes & increase alignment between product and engineering w/ Gokul Rajaram #198

From VPE to CTO - mission-aligned teams, prioritizing company over department outcomes & the power of a “not do” list w/ Ryan Fox #197

Leading change, navigating career growth & finding inspiration beyond engineering - Live from ELC Annual 2024! #196

Career growth in today’s market + effective partnerships between engineering & hiring partners - Live from ELC Annual 2024 #195

Selling your ideas, leveraging curiosity in tough conversations, managing emotions & psychological safety - Live from ELC Annual 2024! #194

Collaboration & Innovation in the Time of AI w/ Anurag Agarwal & Lizzie Matusov #193

Collaborative Teams Are More Productive Teams w/ Marcel Weekes & Arquay Harris #192

Scaling AI for an Immersive 3D Platform with 77 Million Daily Active Users w/ Anupam Singh & Maria Kazandjieva #191

Podcast Break for ELC Annual 2024!

Connecting bugs & quality to the business bottom line w/ Dave Rhodes #190

Live from Config 2024! Product-building, leadership & execution lessons behind the launch of Figma’s Dev Mode w/ Marcel Weekes #189

Tackling All Top 10 Engineering Leadership Challenges w/ Farhan Thawar #188

Strategic Thinking, Org Design & Aligning Engineering & Business Goals - Tackling the Top 10 Eng Leadership Challenges! #187

Speed v. Quality, Measuring Productivity & Cross-Functional Relationships - Tackling the Top 10 Eng Leadership Challenges! #186

Coaching, Influencing, Motivating & Managing Up - Tackling the Top 10 Engineering Leadership Challenges! #185

The Top 10 Challenges Engineering Leaders Face: A Sneak Peak

Building scalable hiring processes & systems promoting operational excellence w/ Stephen Poletto #184

Conscious Career Growth w/ Wade Chambers #183