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

Conferences

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Don't be an a**hole: How to design AI products that people trust — Simonetta Batteiger at mtpcon London 2026

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

How Fin builds at the edges when agents own the middle: John Moriarty at #mtpcon London 2026

The Hidden UX of AI - How to build trustworthy AI products: Nina Olding at INDUSTRY 2025 

Video

Product Management Conference

From first click to Aha: How AI is rewriting user onboarding - Nichole Mace at INDUSTRY 2025 (Pendo)

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

Tasnim Nazeer

A practical guide on prototyping and supercharging your Product with AI: Prerna Singh at INDUSTRY 2025

Nichole is a product leader at Pendo, focused on SaaS and product-led growth businesses. She loves to develop and transform products into self-serve, "no-touch" offerings. Nichole's greatest joy is delighting users with every interaction, then guiding them from an "aha" moment to real value, enticing them to return and engage longterm.

Nichole Mace

Community Post

Product Management Career

What Netflix’s $900k product manager job tells us about AI

Beckett is a globally-minded product manager with experience in turning intricate problems into meaningful software solutions. Born and raised across Minnesota, Shanghai, and Brussels, he holds a unique international perspective that he applies to his work. Beckett is currently working with UserTesting (formerly UserZoom), employing his skills to build a platform that simplifies user research for product managers, UI/UX designers, and UX researchers. In addition to his work, he gives back to the community by teaching software product management at his alma mater, Santa Clara University, championing mentorship and life-long learning.

Beckett Johnson

Business Strategy

Product Management Skills

How AI-generated software could turn your competitive moat into a puddle

Phil Hopkins is Director of Product Management at Amazon Music. He is a  data-driven product and program manager, Python and Java developer, and team leader delivering strong ROI for consumer-facing digital apps and data pipelines.

Phil Hopkins

Value sensitive design and AI: A reconsideration

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

AI startups: a frothy market or a bubble that could burst?

Rachel is your guide for elevating your product craft and loving your product career. She empowers product managers to discover their passion, overcome challenges, and achieve the impactful product career they are striving for. 

Rachel Wynn is a B2B SaaS product leader who drives innovation and develops strategic product visions. She has experience in bringing new products to market, managing complex enterprise products, and leveraging research and discovery to find product-market fit faster. Her areas of expertise include product strategy and vision, roadmapping, customer discovery, product innovation, stakeholder engagement, and customer-centric products.

Rachel Wynn

Why I'm not afraid of AI making product redundant

Christine has been in product management for 12+ years, and has held roles from Product Manager to Director leading teams to Head of Product Operations. She’s done so across finance, fintech, and SaaS and has focused on not only delivering product and outcomes to customers, but strengthening product teams while doing so.  

Christine believes great experiences for customers start with a frictionless product experience that helps them build trust with the company, ultimately creating a partnership vs a transactional relationship. Her passion for connecting product people to their partners and customers helped guide her throughout her career in product and has been foundational to her role as a pioneer in Product Operations, and thought leader in the product space.

She’s led and coached teams through product-led transformation and continues to mentor product leaders on setting up foundations for strong teams, creating and delivering best practices, and creating a system for product managers to do their best in. Christine enjoys giving back to the product community and looks at product management as a discipline rather than a role in technology.

Christine Itwaru

Embracing AI as a partner

Varun is currently a Senior Product Manager at Cisco Systems Inc. (Seattle, WA). He leads their Information Technology B2B and B2C Webex products of AI/ML Reports &amp; Analytics and Cloud Modernization. He also manages executive engagements and customer interactions for these products. Previously, Varun worked as a Senior Product Manager at Deloitte Consulting LLP. At Deloitte, he supervised six direct reports to lead Product Management and Strategic Consulting efforts across the Technology and Healthcare sectors for Fortune 500 and public-sector clients. To date, he has successfully launched eight 0-1 products, generating $80Mn+ revenue and improving the customer experience of 11Mn end-users. Varun also has an MBA from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and an MS from Northwestern University. He is a Product Leader with ~seven years of experience across cutting-edge AI/ML, Cloud, Digital Transformation technologies and B2B, and B2C Business Products and Services. He has keen business and strategic acumen and is passionate about leveraging technology to improve the lives of end users.

Varun Kulkarni

Understanding AI-based data and insights led digital product management

Todd is a Stanford-educated product manager with 15+ years of experience in the B2B2C tech industry. Currently he leads his own freelance consultancy advising on product management, user research, and professional writing. Recently he worked as an early employee at Deliverr and Matterport, both successful exits. Before that, he worked as a technical writer including several years working abroad in Taiwan. Todd earned his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and has a deep intellectual passion for interdisciplinary fields such as computer vision, robotics, and machine learning. Outside of work, Todd loves to run marathons as well as read history and philosophy.

Todd Lewandowski

Viewing ChatGPT through the lens of product sense

SUNDAY REWIND: Common Product Development Mistakes and How To Avoid Them All: A Case Study

Product Ethics

SUNDAY REWIND: Predictive tech and data ethics: Part 1 – the pros and cons

Ex-AI product lead, now AI journalist. Cutting through noise with critical analysis of ethics, business, and society. No hype. Just truth.