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Product Innovation Series is an in-depth interview series featuring product & innovation leaders from small startups all the way to Fortune 500 behemoths. Our guests share their battle-tested perspective on what prevents teams from shipping a great product. The show is hosted by Aram Melkoumov, the CEO of Crowdlinker.
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In this episode of the Product Innovation Show, Maarten van Kroonenburg, founder @ BW Ventures, and Aram Melkoumov dive deep into the realm of enterprise ideation. They explore the ins and outs of validating a business idea, with Maarten unveiling his unique, tried-and-tested processes for determining product viability, customer validation, and eff…
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Mounika Sanikommu, Senior Product Manager at Zuora, is sharing her thrilling journey with ChatGPT, experiments she runs, plugins she discovered and how she uses AI for data analysis in her day job. Monica and Aram also spills the beans on the future of jobs in an AI-dominated landscape.De către Aram Melkoumov
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In this episode, our host Aram Melkoumov is speaking with with Jorge, a product leader at Resilia, about the growing influence of AI, particularly GPT-4, in the tech industry. They dive into the ways AI can change our everyday experiences and discuss the potential for AI to replace certain roles. Key Takeaways: The Power of GPT-4: Jorge reflects on…
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In this episode of Product Sessions we delve into an insightful discussion with Anton Aleksandrov, associate Director at CleverTap, on how artificial intelligence is shaping product. We get into the impact of AI on development, workplace efficiency, and the potential consequences of its rapid adoption. Show Notes: 02:15 - Role of GPT-4 in product r…
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In this episode of Product Sessions, we discuss how chatGPT can be applied to Customer Success and Product Strategy. Our guests, Laura Blackmore from Cascade and Danielle Latimore, Senior Customer Success manager, share their insights on using AI to increase efficiency, tailor customer experiences, and navigate the ethical challenges. Show Notes: 0…
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About Marlon Hope Marlon Hope is the Head of Product at Netacea. He is PRINCE 2 and Agile qualified, with years spent in banking, operations management, procurement, and logistics. The golden thread in his career is strong project management skills and consistent, high-quality delivery. SHOW NOTES: 0:11 | Episode intro and what’s in for you 0:57 | …
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About Jeroen Van Hautte Jeroen Van Hautte is the co-founder and CTO/CPO of TechWolf, a startup with a laser focus on AI-based strategic workforce planning. Jeroen graduated from the University of Cambridge with a specialised natural language processing degree, Jeroen built the groundwork for TechWolf's Skill Engine technology and now heads the deve…
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About Monika Ocieczek Monika Ocieczek is the head of product design at Primer. Monika has also served as a CPO and co-founder at Gimi AB, a youth-first neo-bank, and as a product manager and team lead at Tink. Monika is widely recognized for her work in Fin-tech and has been named one of the "Top 250 most promising Fin-techs in the world 2018" by C…
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About Tudor Munteanu Tudor is originally from Romania, but lives in Barcelona. Before becoming a VP of Operations and Strategic Initiatives at Aizon he was a subject matter expert on Google Cloud platform working for SELLBYTEL Group. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Tudor Munteanu 0:49 | How has the experience of relocating from Romania to Barcel…
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About Shelly Bardai Shelly Bardai is an Associate Partner at IBM Consulting and the Customer Transformation lead for Western Canada within IBM iX. She is based in Vancouver, Canada, and works with Enterprise clients in Energy, Mining, Retail, and Public Sectors. Prior to joining IBM, she spent five years at KPMG, leading their Innovation practice a…
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About Tadas Labudis: Tadas leads the Customer AI team at Playvox. He joined Playvox in 2022 following the acquisition of Prodsight, a text analytics startup he founded to help support teams get deeper insights from their customer interactions. In his free time, he likes to spend time with his wife and baby daughter, play drums and try his hand at p…
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We all want to maintain high application quality, but without automation and customer involvement, it would be impossible to reach these goals. Automation plus customer data make your apps scalable, usable, and more efficient for your customers. Create a product and a solution that your customers will love and engage with, not just use. - Ayal Cohe…
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About Burak Burak Kantarci is a Product Manager at Thundra where his main goals are to simplify developers’ daily life and make their workflows more errorless and enjoyable. He lives in Turkey and has a degree in Computer Science. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Burak Kantarci 1:17 | Original product at Thundra and the different pivots it has un…
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Manos Kyriakakis is a Head of Product & Growth at Simpler. They’re aiming to allow shoppers all over the world seamlessly checkout from anywhere. In the past, Manos has worked with other VC-backed startups in industries such as insuretech, ad-tech, and travel-tech, including Pricefox.gr, Avocarrot, Market Group, and Welcome Pickups. He has also col…
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Tom and Aram discuss how and why to build an advisory council. They discuss how to ask questions people want to answer, how getting close to your users makes work more meaningful for your team, and why you should never build a product alone. They also explore why you shouldn’t only think about who your customer is and what they need - but who their…
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What happens when you accept that many people can do a better job than you? Why should you treat your company as a product? This founder took what he learned working at Amazon and Siemens and started his own company. About Pierre Brunelle Pierre Brunelle is the co-founder and CEO of Noteable. Previously, he was a technical product manager at Amazon…
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What do you get when you rely on your intuition instead of just what customers tell you? The iPod. Today we discuss the creative leaps of faith you should and shouldn’t take when developing your product. About Ravi Swaminathan Ravi Swaminathan is the CEO of TaskHuman. He believes in egoless leadership. Egoless leadership is about being at peace wit…
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You can be a product manager and have 0 technical skills. Sound controversial to you? Today’s product director has never written a single line of code - he has played professional soccer though. Find out how not having technical skills makes him a sharper PM. About Mor AviHanan Mor AviHanan is the Director of Product Management at ZoomInfo. He does…
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The way a design team is managed can fuel creativity or stifle it. What happens when you direct ideas too early? How do you challenge your designers without overwhelming them? Today’s guest built his design team in 4 months, this is what he learned. About Mike Townson Mike Townson is the Director of Product Design at Order. When he started at Order…
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When Wrike was a start-up, winning was easy. Its biggest competitor was Excel. Today, it competes with Asana, Monday, Trello, and more. What do you do when your market becomes more competitive? How do you make it impossible for your clients to leave you? About Alex Zhezerov Alex Zhezerov is the Director of Product Management at Wrike. He is also a …
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What’s it like to run a team from Seattle that’s largely based all the way in India? And how can you develop your product using an evolutionary perspective? Get answers on today’s show - because today’s guest does both of those things. About Carmen Williams Carmen Williams is the Head of Product Marketing at Zuper; but, she’s also a Chief Evolution…
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How do you make sure you’re building product processes that scale? Can a new product manager easily pick up where you left off? Find out why hiring her first associate PM shook our guest today. About Rachel Folz Rachel Folz is the Director of Product at Cerkl. In fact, she was team member #3 there - right after the two co-founders. They started wor…
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About Ahmad Ahmad Kadhim is a software product leader who’s been in tech for close to 10 years now, mostly in hybrid roles at early-stage startups. He has also been a veteran of three other marketplace startups like AquaMobile, #paid and 500px.Being cross-disciplinary played to his strengths as a zoom-in-zoom-out thinker. SHOW NOTES [01:10] Intro […
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About Jeffrey Greene Jeffrey Greene is the Director of Product and Design at NinePatch. He has been working in the design space since 2006 and held roles such as Senior User Experience Designer at Quantros and Director Of Product Design at Stella Technology. He holds a Master’s degree in architecture from Harvard but didn’t work in architecture. Ou…
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There’s too much focus on trendy concepts like being agile. There’s too much distortion because of ego and pride. How do you stay authentic, skip the trends, and have better judgment in your work as a product manager? About Edoardo Ferrara-Bardile Edoardo Ferrara-Bardile is a Senior Product Manager at N26. He started his career as an HR professiona…
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Being the first product person in a company is similar to being a detective. You have to expose, articulate, prioritize and map out the founder’s vision. Sometimes you’re met with skepticism and other times you’re misunderstood. Tune in for this PM’s story of being the first product person in his company. About Usama Khan Downloading the founder’s …
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About Aram Aram Melkoumov is the CEO of Crowdlinker. Crowdlinker is an end-to-end digital product studio based in Toronto and Barcelona. Crowdlinker turns 10 in the fall of 2022. He works with startups like Freshbooks and enterprises like Unilever. Follow Aram Melkoumov https://www.linkedin.com/in/melkoumov/?originalSubdomain=ca Work with Crowdlink…
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Creating products that help people achieve their life goals requires a sober view of growth. Focus needs to always be purposeful, and distractions minimal. About Abhishek Abhishek Bhasin is Head of Product at Uplinq. He is a subject matter expert when it comes to credit. He is a product manager that has dedicated his career to financial inclusion. …
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About Mahdi Farra Mahdi Farra began his fascination with products when he was just 14. Today, he is a Director of Product Design at Ronday. He held many various roles including Lead Product Designer at Airtime and Senior UX Designer at Rakuten Ready. Mahdi has many interesting ideas about common practices that, in his view, are nothing but expensiv…
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About Filippo Di Trapani Filippo Di Trapani is a Director of Product Design at a Web 3 company called remx.xyz. Previously, he was a design lead at Automattic and Partner Operations Manager at Shopify. Creative work makes his heart happy. He wishes others would push him the way he pushes himself. Summary Filippo and Aram have a conversation about w…
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Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips and DMs. About Pavan Singh Pavan Singh is the Vice President Of Product Management at Lynx Software Technologies where he works on enterprise infrastructure. He earned his MBA from the Kellog School of Business at Northwestern. Amongst other previous roles, he had a 6-year career at Cisco perfor…
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Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips and DMs. About Manuel Breschi Manuel Breschi is the director of product at Typeform. Typeform is a no-code SaaS platform with tools that help companies grow their businesses by engaging with their audience. He studied at the University of Illinois, where he did his MBA, and has expertise in prod…
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Fear and anxiety can derail excellent products. This episode is all about how not to fall into the anxiety trap or become a prisoner of your fear as a product manager. Our guest, Stephen Grillos, shares how he stays strong even in contentious moments with CEOs. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Who is Stephen Grillos? 01:57 | How martial arts and product manageme…
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Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips and DMs. About Aram Aram Melkoumov is the CEO of Crowdlinker. Crowdlinker is an end-to-end digital product studio based in Toronto and Barcelona. Crowdlinker turns 10 in the fall of 2022. He works with startups like Freshbooks and enterprises like Unilever. SHOW NOTES: 0:08 | What is staff augme…
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Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips and DMs. About Aram Aram Melkoumov is the CEO of Crowdlinker. Crowdlinker is an end-to-end digital product studio based in Toronto and Barcelona. Crowdlinker turns 10 in the fall of 2022. He works with startups like Freshbooks and enterprises like Unilever. SHOW NOTES: 00:17 | What is product di…
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Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips and DMs. As product managers, how much should we rely on data? How much does data tell us about our nuanced realities? Can user interviews be manipulated to confirm bias? Tune in as we explore these questions. About Blagoja Blagoja Golubovski is Vice President of Product Management at Visit.org.…
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Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips and DMs. When you think of design, you probably think of beauty and delight. But, that’s not really what design is about. That’s just the most overrated aspect of design. What’s the most underrated? About Sean Dekkers Sean Dekkers is the Head of Product Design at Digits. Throughout his career, h…
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Do you think of your product as part of a larger ecosystem or are you tunnel-visioned? Tune in to this episode to find out why your product’s ecosystem shouldn’t be an afterthought. In fact, by relying on strategic partnerships you can save money and strengthen your community. About Kabir Kabir Mathur is the Head of Product Partnerships at Typeform…
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Product-led growth is not for every company. Yet, lots of people have jumped on the product-led growth bandwagon inexplicably and have ended up disappointed or frustrated. Tune in to discover why most people get product led-growth wrong and what to do to get it right. About Meraj Meraj Imani is the Director of Product Management at Fiix by Rockwell…
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Embracing product bias. Navigating conflicts with design teams. Directing clients that don’t have clear goals. Everything is on the table as behind-the-scenes anecdotes of client meetings and discussions are revealed. Idoh’s main frustration with B2B SaaS companies is that they don’t talk to end-users enough. In fact, he tells the story of his time…
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Tune in to learn how to differentiate your product even if you offer something similar to your competitors, why you should integrate user feedback at the very beginning of the development process, and learn about specific situations where seeking customer feedback would do more harm than good. About Avadhoot Avadhoot Bhambare is a product executive…
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Conversation highlights: - Removing biases in AI decision making and product management (data privacy, AI ethics) - Product Council at EdCast: teams, processes, and the CEO veto - Business epics vs. architectural epics: importance of planning processes - Bhaskar’s top 10 go-to metrics About Bhaskar Bhaskar is the Global Head of Product Management &…
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Highlights: - Six Seals of product development: from defining product vision to launch and optimization (key responsibilities of a PM) - Product-Market Fit survey: measuring value to customers - How Ale manages product teams at Payfit - Most reliable frameworks in the product development process at Payfit About Ale Ale is focused on enabling cross-…
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Highlights: - Why onboarding is a critical part of your customer experience - The significance of establishing a cross-functional onboarding team - What is the EUREKA framework - How to transition from free to paid and offering more ‘free’ in your product. About Ramli: Ramli John is well known in the Toronto ecosystem as a demand gen marketer. A pr…
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Highlights: - How the AI Product Management at Veriff builds identity verification system - Concept behind Probabilistic Vs. Deterministic world: from an AI Product Managers’ viewpoint - How to make a machine do what humans can do using Artificial Intelligence - Liisi’s take on fully autonomous vehicles by 2025 About Liisi Liisi's career focus has …
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Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips. Highlights: - Decision-making process for building features in a three-sided marketplace at Shipt - Battling confirmation bias and setting OKRs that match company’s goals - Secret sauce of managing people: PMs must be outcome-oriented, not output-oriented About Vishal Vishal is a Product Leader…
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Follow Aram Melkoumov on Linkedin for highlight clips. Highlights: - CTO vs CPO: How Jean managed both roles at Brigad - Why it is important for PMs to build roadmaps around initiatives before introducing features - How and why a complicated product feature led to customer churn at Brigad - Importance of stakeholder of feedback and transparent proc…
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Feel free to DM our CEO Aram directly with product questions: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melkoumov/ Specifically, in this event you’ll discover: - The right way to plan, strategize, design, and develop your MVP - The secret hacks we use to improve efficiency and output - A step-by-step breakdown of a real-world MVP we built for one of our clients’…
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Conversation highlights: - Future of AI in the next 10 years (multilingual voice recognition systems) - How deep learning works at companies like Amazon, Google, and Apple - How Miguel builds product roadmaps from talking to internal customers at Rev - Buying AI data to build products from companies like Appen and Define.AI About Miguel Miguel is t…
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Conversation highlights: - “The Golden Cage” of Google employment - Product Marketing VS. Product Management from customer’s perspective - Why Product Marketers NEED to be a part of the early-stage product development - What PMs often forget to do after product launch Connect with Vaishnavi https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaishnaviravi/ About Vaishnavi…
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