In this latest episode of The Product Edge, Jade Bennett interviewed Shibu Mathew, VP of Product Management at Immutable at the time of recording, a leading web3 company. Shibu is a seasoned product leader with over 20 years of experience in consumer internet, mobile gaming and e-commerce. Previously at Electronic Arts, Shibu launched and scaled the E-sports platform for some of the most popular gaming franchises, including FIFA, Madden and Apex, to name a few. Together, they explored the essent...
Nov 19, 2023•33 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast In this latest episode of The Product Edge, Jade Bennett interviewed Jen Leibhart, Co-Founder of Product Anonymous – a Melbourne-based community for learning and sharing product management knowledge with others. Jen is also an organiser for Product Camp Melbourne and believes in bringing people together to create, share and achieve while having fun. Advocating for research to understand customers' motivation and behaviours has been a long-time passion for Jen. Together, they explored the key str...
Oct 22, 2023•44 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast In this latest episode of The Product Edge, Jade Bennett interviewed Teresa Huang, Product Director at Redbubble, with over a decade’s experience working in diverse industries and organisations of all shapes and sizes, including e-commerce, fintech, aviation, health insurance and financial institutions. Teresa’s passion is to never stop learning and sharing her experiences and to inspire and motivate the next generation of ambitious Product Managers and Leaders. Together they delve into Product ...
Sep 24, 2023•35 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast In this latest episode of The Product Edge, Jade Bennett interviewed Aubrey Blanche-Sarellano. As a Senior Director of People Operations & Strategic Programs at Culture Amp, Aubrey has expertise in everything from designing, implementing and communicating equitable talent programs solutions to sustainability and philanthropy. Through her work, Aubrey seeks to question and reimagine systems to ensure that all people can access equitable opportunity. Together Jade and Aubrey delve into equity,...
Jun 25, 2023•43 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast In the latest episode of The Product Edge, Jade Bennett interviewed Nicole Brolan, Chief Product Officer. Nicole has lead product teams for businesses such as Redbubble and Xero. Before that, she spent 15 years at cnet.com.au, where she progressed her career from Associate Product Manager to Chief Product Officer. And during this time, as she navigated her career, she found the time to complete a business degree and have a baby boy, Benji. Nicole believes that product folk should remember the pr...
Jun 12, 2023•38 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast In this latest episode of The Product Edge, Jade Bennett interviewed Mike Zarif, Product Director for Propel Ventures. Mike is an experienced product leader with a track record in developing and leading high-performing product teams focusing on user experience. He has spent the last ten years launching and scaling products in early-stage startups to large corporations locally and globally. Mike believes Product Management can be a little like being on a rocket ship where you need to be open-mind...
May 28, 2023•33 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast In this latest episode of The Product Edge, Jade Bennett sits down with Amanda Ralph, the Principal Product Manager at PaperCut Software, the global leader in print management solutions. Amanda has worked with some of Australia’s leading companies including Qantas, NAB, KPMG and AustralianSupera and co-founded Product Women which now has over 6000 members. Amanda has been recognised as one of the leading Women in Product and this year as one of 25 Global Women Product leaders to follow, b...
May 14, 2023•39 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of The Product Edge, Julie Starovoitova shared her insights about how psychological safety can help you build high performance teams with our wonderful podcast host, Jade Bennett. With a background in Positive Psychology one of Julie's core beliefs is that work can (and should!) be enjoyable and rewarding and that happens when you set your people up for success and create an environment where they can do amazing work. Julie is on a mission to build human-centric, high-performing,...
Apr 30, 2023•50 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of The Product Edge, Jade Bennett sits down with Tom Dyson Head of Product at JobAdder. Tom has over 10 years of experience building and growing B2B, SaaS solutions. Tom thinks that the best way to make a great product is to find a balance between art, science, and strategic management. He passionately claims that Product Management is the best job in the world! Today, Jade and Tom discuss what it takes to build products that customers love and ultimately become raving fans. In t...
Apr 16, 2023•39 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast In Jade’s first episode of The Product Edge since returning from maternity leave, she sits down with Liz Blink, Co-Founder of Product Anonymous, a community group for product people in Melbourne to discuss the importance of investing in Product folk. Liz has been a product manager for over 15 years and says she fell in love with it because it offers the opportunity to be constantly challenged. Liz has worked across marketplaces, government transformations, platforms, and product consultin...
Apr 02, 2023•39 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast Joining Georgia today are two incredible people from 99Designs; Evan Ravensdale, Senior Product Director & Lauren Kish, Product Operations Lead. Today we are exploring the emerging practice of product operations. Evan is a long-time product leader who is experienced in building different types of products across a variety of markets. He is passionate about building teams that are truly empowered, learn rapidly through experimentation and are connected to customers & users. Lauren recentl...
Jun 26, 2022•37 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast Product Management can be defined in many different ways but a common way to describe it is the confluence of User Experience, Tech & Business. The general practice around execution has evolved a lot over the years but one aspect that doesn’t get discussed to the same extent is the business side and overall business strategy. Joining Georgia today is Dino Talic. Dino has been in Product Management for over 10 years, starting out his career as a Software Engineer before shifting into p...
Jun 12, 2022•48 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Cheryl Gledhill and Lauren McCormack have joined Georgia today to talk about their journey at Zip Co , and the experiences they have had working in scaling businesses, which is poignant as we watch so many Australian tech businesses scaling at speed. The operations of a start-up, scale-up and established product businesses are very different. Cheryl is currently Director of Product and has been working in product for over 25 years from the early days of OzEmail, through the dot com boom and bust...
May 29, 2022•36 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast Herry Wiputa joins Georgia on The Product Edge to discuss the foundations you need to scale a business and how that benefits the product, the customer and the business goals. He is an experienced Chief Product and Technology Officer who has scaled products and teams for Campaign Monitor, REA and currently, hipages . He is passionate about creating systems of work to empower people and teams to perform at their best. Australia has one of the fastest-growing markets in terms of producing tech ‘uni...
May 15, 2022•24 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast Kent Weathers talks to Georgia today about the most common challenges organisations are facing and what they can do to change that and how it all starts by implementing best practices and global standards. Product Management has been an evolving industry for 20+ years and in the last 5 years alone, companies are hiring more and more Product Managers. But a lot of them leave their jobs after only 6 months. So why is that? Kent and The Association of Product Management are on a mission to build gl...
May 01, 2022•30 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast Brad Dunn is a Product Management executive with over 20 years of experience. He caught up with Georgia to talk to her about how he is on a journey to reinvent product prioritisation. Brad is the former CPO of Whispir and CEO of both OHNO.ai and Nazori. He is now the founder of GrowShow, a new SaaS product designed to help content creators. As a Product Manager, it’s your job to make sure the business is working on the most important things first. The reality is though, that you can never g...
Apr 17, 2022•43 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Joining Georgia today is Ally Akbarzadeh . Ally has spent over two decades bringing great digital products to life, and has been fortunate enough to develop industry-leading B2C and B2B products. He has extensive experience in marketing products and is going to share his thoughts, opinions, and ideas on the importance of having a strong go-to-market strategy and how that ties into product strategies. Ally talks about how building and launching brilliant products requires understanding and harmon...
Apr 03, 2022•35 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast One of the reasons we know people love working for start-ups, is the dynamic nature of the role. It offers an opportunity to get exposure to not just product challenges, but business challenges too. So, as a Founder, how and when do you decide is the right time to hire a Product Manager? In this episode, Georgia talks to Ben Wirtz, a product leader with over 10 years of experience working with both famous enterprise companies such as Atlassian and Google as well as founding his own start-ups. Ov...
Mar 20, 2022•35 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast Joining Georgia on The Product Edge is Amanda Ralph , a successful product strategist and leader who has a passion for creating and developing market-leading commercial and customer value through building and designing products and services that customers love. Amanda has worked with some of Australia’s leading public and private companies including Qantas, NAB, KPMG, and Medibank. She is currently the Principal Product Manager of Retirement Products for Australia’s largest profit-for-member sup...
Mar 06, 2022•36 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast Barry is a big advocate for calm, sustainable, and distributed teamwork. In this podcast, he shares his knowledge and experience on how to align product and technology teams to make that happen. With an extensive career working with technology and product teams as a Developer, Consultant, and Leader, Barry provides solutions on how to get teams to communicate and collaborate in a more structured way. In this episode we discuss: ✓ Promoting clarity and better communic...
Feb 20, 2022•35 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Rob Crowder , Head of Product at Nutromics joined Georgia in this episode. They spoke about the importance of having a strong product narrative and the effect that has on customers. Rob’s specialties are Product Development and Management, and he leads a talented team of technology and product people who share the same passion for revolutionising healthcare. In this episode we discuss: ✓ The difference between a product story and a product narrative ✓ &nbs...
Feb 06, 2022•22 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Georgia was joined by Jonathan Swift , General Manager at REA Group . Jonathan has over 20 years of experience in the technology sector - his impressive product career spans across the UK, US, Asia, and Australia. He has a wealth of experience within the Product and Development Management field, and he’s on The Product Edge to share his experiences leading the product function across a variety of businesses from start-ups and multinational organisations, to everything in between. We talk about w...
Jan 23, 2022•31 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Craig Penfold is the VP of Engineering at Culture Amp and at the time of recording, this episode was Chief Technology Officer and Head of Product at Rome2Roi. He has 22 years of experience and is now combining his technical knowledge with Product Management to lead both product and technical functions. In this episode we discuss: ✓ Re-focusing during a crisis ✓ How to challenge assumptions in a time when things are so unpredictable ✓ ...
Nov 28, 2021•29 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Georgia caught up with David Wang , Founder of the Product Academy , who is passionate about helping the next generation of Product Managers through teaching the art of Product Management. With over 15 years of experience building products for start-ups, as well as coaching corporate organisations across Australia, we are excited to talk to David about the three different types of product roadmaps to master. In this episode we discuss: ✓ The importance and benefits o...
Nov 14, 2021•30 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Georgia welcomes Frank McKenna , Chief Product Officer. Here, he discusses being ‘data driven’ which is still misunderstood by many in the same way that Agile development is/was. Very few decisions a product manager makes aren’t data-driven. In fact, for most product managers, they make data-informed decisions daily. With an impressive 20 years of experience in Product Management, across a range of industries in the USA, Europe, and Australia, Frank shares his insights on how to...
Oct 31, 2021•27 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Radhika Dutt is back to share her experience of taking a vision-driven approach rather than an iterative approach to creating great products. Georgia and Radhika talk about Digital Pollution and how technology evolution is impacting our society. You can find out more in her recent book, Radical Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter . You can also download Radhika’s free toolkit and a copy of her book through her website . In this episode we discuss: ✓ The ...
Oct 17, 2021•39 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Georgia caught up with Scott Middleton , Founder of Terem , where they spoke about Design Thinking and User-Centered Design Principles, and how they highlight the importance of understanding the needs, wants, and desires of their customers. It’s still surprising how often product folk don’t really speak to their customers..! It was an absolute pleasure talking to Scott about how Product Managers can conduct meaningful customer interviews and how he helps product folk understand ...
Oct 03, 2021•30 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Middleton Executive is passionate about supporting and helping women in the product and tech community. We were incredibly excited to have Pearly Yee from Brainmates join us on The Product Edge to share her ideas and opinions on how we can help more women in the industry. Pearly has over 10 years of Product Management experience and is former Head of Product at The Australian Financial Review and former Product Lead at Envato. She has also played a huge role in helping some of Australia's most s...
Sep 19, 2021•41 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Jade is joined by Steve Forbes, Co-founder of Xienta. Over the last 15 years, Steve has worked with some of Australia’s largest organisations such as NAB, ANZ, Telstra, and Aus Post to bring their ideas to life. Steve is passionate about building innovative products which deliver great user experiences and leverage new and emerging technologies. Today Steve shares his expertise on how product professionals can better evaluate their product ideas. In this episode we discuss: ...
May 30, 2021•37 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of The Product Edge, Radhika Dutt joins Jade to discuss Radical Product Thinking and why successful products require a vision-driven approach. Radhika is an entrepreneur and seasoned product leader, she is also the author of the upcoming book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. Radhika has participated in four acquisitions as a result of the products she has built , including two acquisitions of companies she founded. She also speaks nine...
May 16, 2021•45 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast 
