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The Product Experience

Podcast

How product teams operate, and why it doesn't work - John Cutler

Ishita is a Senior Product Manager with 7+ years of experience bringing new ideas to life in consumer tech and payments. From launching 0-to-1 products to improving the tools teams use behind the scenes, she’s passionate about building things that actually make work easier. Lately, she’s been exploring how GenAI can help teams move faster, think better, and create real impact.

Ishita Mogra

Case Study

Behind the seamless OpenTab: How a simple ordering feature turned into a scalable payments system

I’m Asher, a Senior Product Manager who loves turning mess into clarity, whether that’s a broken search experience, a leaky growth funnel, or a clunky city system. I’ve worked across live music, fintech, and subscription platforms, focused on the parts of product that help users find value, not just stick around. I write about product thinking in real life: the kind shaped by constraints, tradeoffs, and people. Sometimes that spills into parenting, street design, or whatever system I’m currently trying to fix. 

Curious what I’ve built? Here’s a snapshot: 👉 https://rebrand.ly/asheratlas

Always open to smart conversations and parenting hacks

Asher Atlas

Product Strategy

Community Post

Our biggest crisis was a product strategy blessing in disguise

Cristina has 11+ years of experience in Product Management, leading digital transformation in aviation with Swiss Aviation Software. She currently drives strategy and delivery for AMOSeTL, a mobile technical logbook solution, and leads five cross-functional teams in building a secure digital TechOps ecosystem for airlines worldwide.
As Head Coach at Ignite Your Path Coaching, Cristina supports professionals at all career stages to gain clarity, build confidence, and act with purpose. Her 4-step “Ignite Method” helps clients identify challenges, navigate complexity, prioritize focus, and take decisive action. She is especially passionate about mentoring Product Owners and Product Managers to thrive in dynamic environments.

Cristina Bustos

What I learned from building products in highly regulated environments

The hidden UX of AI: What every PM needs to know - Nina Olding (Weights&Biases, Gemini, Meta)

Alexandra is the Newsletter Editor at Mind the Product and a journalist with six years' experience covering tech, culture, and the online space. She's worked with New_Public and Untested and co-founded GRV Media's graduate writers' program.

Alexandra Ciufudean

Product Management Conference

Excel at managing product managers: Mariah Craddick at INDUSTRY 2025

Rakshana Balakrishnan is an accomplished cloud product leader with 12+ years of experience in designing and delivering technical cloud-based products from concept to launch, including 0-to-1 and 1-to-n products. At Oracle, she leads the product development and growth for Oracle Database@AWS, an industry-first multicloud product that caters to global customers across AWS and Oracle cloud environments. Previously at AWS, she empowered thousands of global customers to create better business outcomes through their cloud journey, by delivering 20+ impactful products focused on optimizing cloud spend, improving the cloud security posture, and accelerating GenAI innovation - influencing billions in revenue. Her prior experience at PwC involved implementing industry-first AI/ML products for customers in the Pharmaceutical industry. As a recognized thought leader, Rakshana has spoken at numerous international conferences and tech talks, published articles on cloud product management in leading tech journals, and served as a judge/product advisor for key award programs. Passionate about fostering diversity in STEM, she serves as a community engagement leader and actively mentors hundreds of young women, in partnership with globally recognized non-profit organizations.

Rakshana Balakrishnan

Data Driven Product Management

How to use churn data to build stickier products

Eira is an editor for Mind the Product. She's been a business journalist, editor, and copywriter for longer than she cares to think about.

Eira Hayward

How to use Jobs-to-be-done to recruit and retain great product teams by Bobby Moesta at INDUSTRY 2025

Renata Gagetti is a product leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling products that make a real difference in people’s lives. Throughout her career, she had the privilege of working with incredible teams at companies like Uber, iFood, Rappi and OLX — leading strategic initiatives that drove growth, improved user experiences, and strengthened product operations. She has always believed product isn’t just about shipping features; it’s about solving real problems with clarity, empathy, and purpose.

Her journey has taken her across Latin America, the U.S., Europe, and Africa, where she has had the chance to lead and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams in diverse cultural and market contexts. These global experiences have shaped the way she sees product leadership: as a bridge between strategy and execution, vision and impact. Today, she is passionate about creating spaces where teams can thrive, fostering human-centered product cultures, and inspiring the next generation of product leaders to build with both heart and ambition.

Renata Gagetti

Leadership

Who really owns the squad? (Spoiler...it’s not the product manager)

Tasnim Nazeer is an features editor for Mind the Product and an award-winning journalist and reporter. 

Tasnim Nazeer

Execution won’t stop. Strategy will unless you have a system: Jenny Wanger at INDUSTRY 2025

Louron serves as the Editor at Mind the Product, bringing 11+ years of experience in editorial roles across business and technology publications. For any editorial inquiries, you can connect with him on LinkedIn or email him at louron.pratt@pendo.io 

Louron Pratt

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

The biggest misconceptions about AI adoption in product management: Nacho Bassino

Igor is a Technical Project Management Lead at Virtual Health, where he helps shape innovative digital products that are transforming the U.S. healthcare industry.

With over 10 years of experience in IT, he has successfully delivered large-scale projects and technology solutions for global organizations including Skype, Microsoft, Swedbank Finland, the Estonian IT Ministry, the Information System Authority of the Republic of Estonia, Bank of Moscow, Alfa-Bank, Sberbank, MTS, Megafon, and the EU Border Control Authority, among others.

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