Creating great products is about the systems, processes and culture in place that help companies deliver value to their customers. On the Product Thinking Podcast, host Melissa Perri interviews the thought leaders in product development and answers your pressing questions to help you think like a great product leader.
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Nov 12
Episode 256: De-Risking Product Launches Effectively
In this episode, Melissa Perri discusses the common dilemma faced by product managers: whether to prioritize large, high-risk features or focus on delivering smaller, incremental updates. She delves into the considerations that should guide this decision, including the value to u ... Show More
8m 41s
Nov 5
Episode 255: How Shopify Is Leveraging AI at Scale with Vanessa Lee
Join us in this episode as Melissa Perri sits down with Vanessa Lee, VP of Product at Shopify, to explore the groundbreaking work being done in AI integration and agentic commerce. Vanessa sheds light on Shopify's AI assistant, Sidekick, which aims to revolutionize how merchants ... Show More
46m 24s
Oct 2024
Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, harnessing founder mode, and more | Anneka Gupta (Chief Product Officer at Rubrik)
<p><strong>Anneka Gupta</strong> is the Chief Product Officer at Rubrik, a leading B2B cybersecurity company. She previously spent 11 years at LiveRamp, where she was the President and Head of Product and Platforms leading product development and go-to-market operations and strat ... Show More
1h 8m
Jan 2025
A Middle Manager’s Guide to Executing Strategy
Imagine this scenario: Your company’s executive team has just announced their new master plan for growing the business. Now it’s your job, as a mid-level manager, to put it into practice. So where do you start? In this episode, strategy consultant Andrea Belk Olson explains how t ... Show More
46m 35s
Jul 2024
Ep. 19 The Art of Problem-Solving: strategies behind the growth of Revolut Business
<p>How do you look at what you have today to get to something better?</p>
<p>Manuel Soto, Head of Operations for Revolut Business, chats with host Alex Carril about how creative problem-solving is at the core of a company’s success, and how we do it at Revolut.</p>
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28m 5s
Jun 2025
How to build a team that can “take a punch”: A playbook for building resilient, high-performing teams | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
Hilary Gridley is the Head of Core Product at WHOOP and a passionate thought leader in leveraging AI to elevate product teams and management practices. With extensive experience tackling challenging problems in regulated industries and high-stakes environments, Hilary emphasizes ... Show More
1h 54m
Jan 2025
An operator’s guide to product strategy | Chandra Janakiraman (CPO at VRChat, ex-Meta, Headspace, Zynga)
<p><strong>Chandra Janakiraman</strong> is the chief product officer, executive vice president, and a board member at VRChat. Previously, he was a product leader at Meta, where he led Facebook’s social experience interfaces and Reality Labs’ growth; served as CPO at Headspace, wh ... Show More
1h 47m
Jan 2025
Product Strategy Masterclass by Gautham Krishnan, Product Leader @ Disney+ Hotstar
<p>In this episode, Gautham Krishnan shares his playbook for mastering product strategy, apply second-order thinking to uncover hidden opportunities, and leverage pre-mortems to minimize risk.</p><p>If you’re looking to sharpen your "product sense" to accelerate your career growt ... Show More
1h 16m
Jun 2021
Retail Product Management in a Global Pandemic (with Rhiana Matthew, Senior PM @ Publicis Sapient)
An interview with Rhiana Matthew. Rhiana is a Senior Product Manager at Publicis Sapient, a product consultancy that aims to help other companies build products better and set their teams up for success. She works in omnichannel retail product management, and saw her product stra ... Show More
35m 4s
Nov 2024
Transformational Leadership
Welcome to another insightful episode of "Accelerate Your Business Growth." Today, we're thrilled to have Brenda Neckvatal, a two-time best-selling author, award-winning HR professional, and serial entrepreneur featured in prominent publications like Forbes and Fast Company. Bren ... Show More
34m 54s
Aug 2024
A Playbook for First-Time Founders with Nancy Twine
<p>If you’re in the thick of building, scaling, your pivoting your business or your career: LISTEN UP! (Yes, in all caps!)</p><p>This episode is for you.</p><p>Today’s guest is sharing a blueprint on how to grow, pivot, and scale successfully (even if you’re literally starting fr ... Show More
44m 6s
Feb 2024
How to Build a Technical Strategy That Solves Business Problems | CircleCI CTO, Rob Zuber
<p>It doesn’t matter if you have an innovative technical strategy if you’re not solving problems the business cares about… <br/><br/>This week, host Conor Bronsdon sits down with Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI. They delve into the evolving role of engineering leaders, and the importa ... Show More
58m 45s