"Into the Digital Abyss: The Crucial Missteps Every Product Manager Must Dodge to Master Acquisition, Monetization, and Retention" 🌌🔍

For every Product Manager who's ever grappled with the delicate dance of acquisition, monetization, and retention, this episode is a goldmine... 🔥 Picture this: A digital realm where products are not just loved by users but are also eagerly paid for by clients. Sounds like a dream, right? 🌌 Enter Anna Mazzetto, the Product Leader of Shopfully, who's mastered this art. 🌟 Tune into "Product Team Success" and discover: ➛ BALANCING ACT : How Anna and her team at Shopfully craft digital products t...

Uncharted Waters: The Hidden Pitfalls Every Product Manager Must Avoid or Risk Sinking Their Ship

🔥 For those who've ever faced the challenge of building a product team from scratch, this one's for you... 🔥 Imagine this: You're tasked with building a product team of 35 in just 2 years. Not only that, but you're also navigating the complexities of a new culture. Sounds daunting, right? 🌪️ Enter Sailendra Kumar, the mastermind who did just that, and more. 🌟 Join us on "Product Team Success" as we delve into: ➛ FROM SCRATCH TO SUCCESS: How Sailendra built an entire R&D partnership, tran...

Crafting Product Excellence: The Art of User Voice, Trust & Communication

🔥For every Product Management Leader striving for the pinnacle of success, the stage is set for an episode like no other...🔥 Picture this: You're knee-deep in data, feedback loops are spiraling, and the daunting challenge of monetization, acquisition, and retention stares you down. But wait! Enter stage right, John Kennedy, with me, your host, Ross Webb. Together, we are about to reveal how to transform this complexity into a symphony of success! 🎻 (And yes, we're turning up the drama dial he...

From Knocking on Doors to Leading at FT.com: The Nuanced Art of Product Management Leadership

🔥 JUST DROPPED: The Product Management Masterclass! 🔥 Dive into an exhilarating conversation with the Product Director of FT.com, Debbie McMahon, as she demystifies the dynamic world of product management. Join us on "Product Team Success" and uncover: ➛ **BECOMING A PRODUCT MANAGER**: Debbie's non-linear journey into the realm of product. How embracing opportunities, even when they seem peripheral, can lead you closer to your passion. > "I sort of knocked on my boss's door and didn't speci...

How to Build a High-Impact Product Team: Vikas' Leadership Playbook

🎧 Do you aspire to lead high-performing product teams that deliver results? This episode is essential listening! Vikas Seth, Chief Product Officer at ID Now, joins us to share their product leadership journey. ⚡️ Key insights: "But to augment themselves or take themselves to the next level, they need to understand the finance part of the product as well." Discover why Vikas emphasizes product managers need a 360-degree view, including finances. "For me, the number one soft skill was curiosity, ...

Purposeful Leadership: Navigating the Subtleties of Product Management with ITV's Laura Jenner

🔥 Dive into the intricate world of product management with Laura Jenner, Director of Product at ITV. 🔥 This episode of "Product Team Success" decodes: ➛ PURPOSEFUL PROBLEM SOLVING: Before diving headfirst into challenges, ask, "Why are we solving it?" Laura stresses the need for leaders to understand the importance of purpose in their decision-making. ❓ ➛ MINDSET MATTERS: Transition from a project-end approach to a continuous product improvement mindset. Laura explains why it's all about the j...

How to Lead with Authentic Growth: Jamie Mercer's Product Leadership Blueprint

🔥 For everyone navigating the maze of Product Management Leadership, THIS episode is your beacon! 🔥 Picture this: Stepping into the world of product management. The weight of diverse roles, from marketing to customer support, rests on your shoulders. 😲 Enter the arena, Jamie Mercer, a trailblazer in Product Management, who not only embraces the challenges but offers insights into the importance of a versatile skill set. 🌟 (Yes, we still love our vibrant Product imagery here at Product Team S...

Inside the Eye of the Product Storm: Navigating Pandemic Panic Buying with Tom Shurrock

On today's episode, we're thrilled to have Tom Shurrock, a crucial figure in Tesco's response to the unprecedented panic buying at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tom brings his unique insights from the frontlines, sharing the strategies, challenges, and victories as a product manager.Tom begins by discussing how they managed the unexpected surge in demand and the strategies Tesco implemented to effectively stagger customer flow, ensuring a safe and efficient shopping environment for everyo...

Infusing Empathy into AI: Building Successful Product Teams with Insights from an Apple Veteran

In the latest episode of Product Team Success, host Ross Webb talks with Apple exec Jonathan Boice about AI and product team success. Here are three key takeaways from this insightful episode: 1. AI can amplify human behavior and experiences, but it can also disregard empathy and consideration for human impact if not used properly. 2. Businesses should aim for MDPs (minimal, delightful products) rather than MVPs (minimal viable products) to create a core product that is already good before addin...

Every Product Manager's First 90 Days in a new role

Even if you're not starting a new job at the moment I think you'll get a lot of value out of this episode. Based on industry trends, Product Managers stay in a role on average 2.5 years. So you're probably around 24 months away from needing to read this book. What I love about the book is that it's not a dry outline of what it's like to start a new role but more of a workbook that John Franck has put together. If you liked the episode and want to find out more about John then reach out to him on...

The Rise of Product in the Organisation

It used to be CIO , CTO but now It's CPO. We used to give an email to download a white paper but now Product Led Growth has enabled huge success for entire industries. I recently spoke to Spenser Skates the Co-Founder and CEO of Amplitude, the world's largest Product Analytics company. We discussed: > Product Led Growth > The rise of the CPO > How Under Armor has used insights they learned to create an experience their customers love and we can do this in our own products. Check out Spe...

Building the Machine that Builds the Machine with Mariano Capezzani at HSBC

When we move from Product Mangers to Product Leaders we're building the machine that builds the machine. Mariano Capezzani, at HSBC is the one of the people who has described this to me best. 🎙On our podcast discussion we were really able to dig deep into this. 🎙 We spoke about : 👉 How removing processes can really speed our work up 👉 Sometimes we should do less but better (and what we should focus on) 👉 Why the use of intuition in Product is seriously underrated 👉 Other great advice for w...

The best advice Larry Page gave Thor Mitchell, Head of Product at Miro

As Product Managers so much of our time is spent building the machine that builds the machine that we end up with a lot of product management wisdom over time. Thor Mitchell is one of the wisest Product Leaders that I know. I met him when we were both presenting at Mind the Product in 2020 before the Pandemic took over. His approach is measured, thoughtful and wise. In this podcast we covered loads of interesting topics and one of the interesting things we spoke about was about his time at Googl...

Accelerate your Product Career with Nick Charalambous

In this Podcast I spoke to the legendary Nick Charalambous, the Founder of Few & Far , a recruitment company that specialises in Product. When I first spoke to Nick I was really amazed as he didn't go into the normal recruiter type of questions and asked me questions that really challenged me in the best way possible. In this podcast we discuss: How to advance in our Product Career The 3 Routes to a GREAT Product Career What Product can learn from Sales! How to make yourself stand out in you...

Raising the Bar with your Product Team

In our latest Weekly CPO Event, Henry Latham and I spoke about : How to raise the bar with your product teams How I created the Product Scorecard What the Key Steps are for creating YOUR own Product Scorecard We also took lots of questions that the audience had around moving from being individual contributors in Product towards becoming Product Leaders. The questions were great and we all had a great time. Looking forward to having you on one of our events in the future....

Product Culture and Unique Jobs to be done

Want to hear a Jobs To Be Done example including iPods, Cocaine, Cash, CD's and Jiffy Bags? I can't wait for you to meet Matt Hawn. Matt has been a product leader for years including stints at Sony, Last.FM, Samsung and Audio Network. Matt has tons of experience in Product and building teams. He shared with me the most unique example of Jobs To Be Done ever and if you'll excuse the rather clickbaity first line it's really interesting. It's one of those stories that is so unique it really helps y...

Scaling your Product Team with Glenn Martin

When you're looking at hiring and scaling up your Product Team there are so many things to consider and Glenn Martin has seen them all. Glenn and I recently spoke about how to scale up your team and how you, as a Product Leader need to ABH (Always Be Hiring). We spoke about effective ways to do that so it doesn't take up all of your time. Glenn also had a very interesting view for all of those of us who are not hiring at Google, Meta or Amazon. I think Glenn's thinking was a breath of fresh air ...

Ken Sandy on your influence in Product

In this episode Ken Sandy, Author of The Influential Product Manager tells us how we can be more influential in our day to day roles as Product Managers and Product Leaders. This is so important, especially when we are growing our team (and growing our product). Ken also had some super interesting insights on how we can find our niche in product. For example he talks about how we focuses only on fast growing startups.

Teresa Torres Insights on Your Next Product Role

Know Teresa Torres as an expert in continual discovery? I sure do but I didn't realise she had some amazing insights in what you can "discover" about your next product role. If you're looking for a new product role, are a Teresa Torres fan or just plain interested in what we can learn from her on continual discovery I think you'll really enjoy this podcast. It was great to talk to Teresa about things (getting your next product role) that aren't things that everyone necessarily associated her wit...

Welcome to the Product Career Accelerator

In this episode we have some big changes. The Product Coach is now The Product Career Accelerator and to join us kick it off is Henry Latham the Founder of Prod.MBA and the founder of the Prod Career Accelerator. We've had so much feedback over the last couple of years about how to accelerate one's product career that we've decided to focus the entire podcast on it. Listen it while Henry and I discuss some of the biggest problems Product Managers and Leaders make in the interviewing process....

How Product Leaders Avoid Burnout with Rachel Hamlin

All too often as Product Managers we don't say no and just take too much work on. In this podcast I’m talking to Rachel Hamlin. She's come from a Product Management background to now helping busy executives including Product Managers escape from burnout and recover from it. Rachel helps us learn how to avoid burnout and we really get into a lot of great mindset topics. I really hope you enjoy listening to Rachel as much as I enjoyed talking to her. Rachel can be found on LinkedIn at: https://www...

Why Product Leadership is all about mindset

What Product Managers need to know about Digital Identities

Welcome to the Product Coach Podcast series for Product Leaders with me, Ross Webb, Identify online is something that us as Product Leaders and Product Managers need to know about. In this podcast I’m talking to Paul McGuire, the founder of tru.ID. It's interesting that we don't even know how many people we lose after failed sign-ups They stop in the process, bu thats half of the picture and then afterwards they post on social and they tried to use the app but the experience was so bad they aren...

Product and Mindset Mastery with Henry Latham (Founder of Product Mastery MBA)

Product and Mindset Mastery with Henry Latham (Founder of Product Mastery MBA) In this podcast I’m talking to Henry Latham the founder of the Product Mastery MBA course. One of the big problems in product is that there's loads of courses out there but very few that actually give you hands on experience with problems as a product manager. The Product Mastery MBA's objective is to fast track product managers to becoming a head of product where the students actually build a real product from idea t...

Product Pricing Strategies (and why price point is not as important as you think)

Product Pricing Strategies (and why price point is not as important as you think) In this podcast I’m talking to Ajit Ghuman and we are going to be focusing on pricing strategies. Ajit has written a book called Price to Scale ( https://www.ajitghuman.com/pricing-book/ ) which is the only book that I'm aware of that really focuses on Pricing from a Product management and Product Marketing perspective. One of the big takeaways for me is that the Price Point is sometimes the least important thing w...

How to do Product Strategy during these times with Noa Ganot

In this Podcast you’re in for a treat and I think this is going to be one of those podcasts that you listen to it once and it makes sense but when you listen to it a few more times you'll get even more value from it. Noa Ganot is someone I’ve been reading on Linkedin for a while and I really love her approach to Product Market fit but when I got to know her a bit better I learned she’s been in Product for a long time and has had some amazing experiences with some awesome companies. But more than...

How Product Analytics can help us make better Product Decisions with John Cutler

In this podcast, I’m talking to John Cutler. John is a well-known and very respected product evangelist for the US-based company Amplitude, software that allows you to use your customer data to build better products and experiences. John brings an insightful perspective on how marketers are using analytics to learn more about their customers and their own companies. While some only focus on the top of the funnel, there’s an incredible opportunity to learn more about your customer's behaviors and...

How to Lead in Product Management with Roman Pichler

In this podcast I’m talking to Roman Pichler. Roman is incredibly well known in the Product Space for his unique approach to Product. He has a new book called: How to Lead in Product Management: Practices to Align Stakeholders, Guide Development Teams, and Create Value Together The focus is on Product Leadership and that’s exactly what this podcast is about. Keep listening to learn: How to deal with really difficult situations. Should Product People learn more about how to negotiate? How to deal...

How Product can work best with tech

Today we have Dave Subar with us. Dave brings a really interesting perspective to Product as he often straddles the line between product and engineering. He has had a fascinating career and some of the highlights of todays podcast are: The importance of Why Why context is so important for teams Learning to negotiate the relationship between engineering and product When going back to waterfall actually makes sense. Dave’s a great guy, I think you’re really going to enjoy this....

How to get GREAT at Product Prioritisation

Prioritisation Is One Of Those Skills That We Really Need To Get Great At As Product Leaders, But Is Really Hard To Sometimes Know The Best Way To Start Or What Else Is Out There That Works. Malte Scholz Is The Co-Founder And CPO For AirFocus A Tool That Helps Product Leaders And Consultants With Prioritisation (As Well As Roadmapping But On This Podcast We Focused On Prioritisation. Malte Shares Some Great Examples With Us That He’s Learned Over The Years And I Really Enjoyed Chatting With Him....