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The Product Experience

Podcast

Product Management Career

How do you avoid burnout in product management?

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

Frameworks

Susana Lopes: Embracing a dual-track career ladder in product

Anna studied English Literature and History at university. She is new to product management and is enjoying learning more about it.

Anna von Hagen

ProductTank

Career clinic for product managers by John Cutler

Hiring product managers by Kate Leto

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

Product Management Skills

Video

Identify and manage imposter syndrome by Phyllis Njoroge

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

What the data tells us about tech and PM lay offs

Illia Smoliienko is the founder & engineering leader at Sivense, an expert with over a decade of experience in Industrial IoT and the implementation of Predictive Maintenance strategies. Throughout his career, Illia has led the development of comprehensive ecosystems of products and services addressing the core needs of IIoT platform users. He has successfully deployed large-scale condition monitoring projects for global companies such as DHL, Michelin, Nike, Nestlé, and Tesla.


Illia Smoliienko 

Community Post

Training developers as an investment: How technical leaders can identify real ROI

Product thinking is the key skill behind the fastest-growing jobs in 2026

Madison is a product manager focused on digital health. With a background as a clinician, she experienced firsthand the challenges faced by both patients and providers. Driven by a desire to understand and solve these problems at scale, she transitioned into product management to build solutions that improve healthcare experiences and outcomes.

Madison Fugard

How PMs can make imposter syndrome their friend

How much were product managers paid in 2025?

Jenny is an entrepreneur and product operations consultant who helps product teams trying to make dramatic changes and make them stick. She helps them through fractional VP of Product services, coaching, and her course, Product Operations and Infrastructure. Learn more about her at www.jennywanger.com.

She brings over a decade of product management experience. She co-founded the pandemic-tech focused TCN Coalition and merged it with LF Public Health and previously led the consumer product team at SpotHero.

When offline, Jenny is usually up in the mountains outside of her home in Colorado hiking and skiing with her family. 

Jenny Wanger

How to lead products through layoff fear

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

Tasnim Nazeer

As the Whitespace Innovation Lab Product Lead, Emma helps organisations understand their big problems, and through user centred design practices and a product mindset, create innovative solutions.
She has over 17 years product and innovation experience across startups and large enterprises in eComm, insurance, retail and consultancy. This has included a number of digital transformation programmes, and the creation of an Innovation Lab. Most recently she was a coach on the Catalyst Co-Founders programme.
Outside White Space -she shares a passion for inclusive innovation through the setup and co-ordination of local meetups and conferences such as ProductTank Belfast, Lean Coffee Belfast, NIDC, and Product Camp Belfast; is a trainer for Mind the Product, and coaches people in Product Leadership.

Emma Mulholland

Feeling lost in Product? Emma Mulholland on burnout, resilience and finding your way back

Climbing the Product Career Ladder: Teresa Huang on progressing from Associate PM to VP and above

A technical product manager and writer with a keen interest in product development lifecycle and tech. Worked at a short stay vacation rental platform in Nigeria for two years. With experience navigating the blurred lines between product and project management, he shares insights to help junior and associate PMs like himself build strong foundational skills. He is working daily to become a strong technical PM, particularly in the AI industry.

Joseph Olatunde

Product Management

Why junior product managers get stuck in the project management trap

Iuliia is a Product Manager with 10+ years of experience in product management and customer service, specializing in SaaS and FinTech. She is passionate about creating customer-centric solutions that improve lives, leveraging a deep understanding of user needs to design exceptional mobile and web experiences.

She thrives in Agile environments, and she is committed to cross-functional collaboration, and excel at solving complex challenges. Outside work, she is an avid traveler, lifelong learner, and specialty coffee enthusiast.

Iuliia Nemudrova

The product management crossroads: Skills to shape your product journey

Head of Product at Odicci, where he is building a Gaming-as-a-Service platform that powers playful shopping experiences for enterprise retail brands. I’ve led 0–1 AI, gaming, and eCommerce products at Activision Blizzard, and Bodybuilding.com, and now focus on making enterprise tools intuitive and fun. Through mentoring at Oxford's Saïd Business School and private coaching, he helps aspiring PMs build confidence, clarity, and presence in a rapidly evolving, AI-driven world.

James Effarah

The most common skill gap in aspiring product managers — and how to fix it

How I got my job in product: Damilola Adelekan, Lead Product Manager at Remedial Health Solutions

Chidi Afulezi is a product guy, digital insurgent, creative, educator, and entrepreneur who coaches and consults with leading product leaders and product teams in the private and public sectors globally.

He is currently building the Product Leadership Accelerator, a Pan-African associate product management program and also serves as a product faculty and instructor at the African Leadership University School of Business and CRA Public Sector Fellowship, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and General Assembly.