The Product Experience
The Product Experience podcast features conversations with the product people of the world, helping you to improve your product practice. Join our hosts Lily Smith and Randy Silver every week as they chat with people in the know and cover the topics that matter to you — solving real problems, developing awesome products, building successful teams, and developing careers.
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Customer centricity: Part 1 of 2 - Daniel Harris on The Product Experience
Daniel Harris, Experience Strategy Director at cxpartners joins us on the podcast to talk all about how to deliver that great customer-centric experience to all who invest if your product. Read more »
Rerun: Using retros to create continuous improvement – Matt Walton on The Product Experience
Matt Walton was one of the founders of FutureLearn, where he scaled the product team and organisation from nothing to the significant player in online education that it is today. He joins us on the podcast to level up our retro game. Read more »
Innovating in Government - Rick Klau on The Product Experience
Experienced product manager and technology expert Rick Klau, currently California’s Chief Technology Innovation Officer sat down with Lily and Randy on the podcast this week to discuss innovation in government throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. They also had time to share insights on OKRs and frameworks in product management. Read more »
What it takes to be a great Product Manager - Lily Smith (and Jason Knight) on The Product Experience
On this week’s podcast, we speak to Lily Smith, Head of Product and Gro….wait…that name sounds familiar? For this special episode on the podcast experience, we decided to turn the tables and interview our very own podcast host, Lily Smith, Head of Product Growth at Bower Collective. With her many years of experience working in Read more »
Setting up a product function from scratch - Maggie Crowley on The Product Experience
What would it be like to join a new company and set up a new product from scratch? On this week’s podcast, we spoke to Maggie Crowley all about her experiences of doing this and her best tips. We also had some time to discuss best practices with metrics and hypotheses in product. Read more »
Lessons learned while working for an African Fintech company - Makera Kigaraba on The Product Experience
What would it be like to pack up all of your things and land a Fintech job in a completely new continent? On this week’s podcast, we spoke with. Makera Kigarada, Principal Product Manager at Fintech start-up M-KOPA to hear about how he got started in the new market as a product manager, and his key lessons learned so far. Read more »
An introduction to OODA loops and SaaS scaling - Kausambi Manjita on The Product Experience
What is an OODA loop and how can it be used in product management? OODA stands for observe, orient, decide, and act. In this week’s podcast, Kausambi Manjita, Co-Founder and CEO of Mason joins us to talk all about this concept and how it has been a useful asset in building products and scaling SaaS companies. Read more »
Leadership challenges throughout the product lifecycle - Todd Olson on The Product Experience
In this episode of The Product Experience, Todd Olson, co-founder and CEO of Pendo, reveals how he climbed the leadership ladder and shares his advice for anyone keen to do the same. Read more »
Rerun: Perfection is the enemy of progress - Matt LeMay on The Product Experience
If a product manager is doing their job really well, they will be invisible and the results will speak for themselves. In this rebroadcasted podcast episode, product coach, consultant, and author speaks with Lily and Randy about the product management craft and how the best product managers do their job really well. Read more »
The secret guide to product growth - Daphne Tideman on The Product Experience
What is the secret to exponential product growth? Daphne Tideman, Growth Coach, joins us on the podcast this week. She discusses Product/market fit, the importance of business/channel models, and where companies go wrong when looking to grow their products. Read more »