#30: Ever wondered what it's like to be in the midst of clashing marketing, sales and product departments? Jennifer Montague, with her wealth of experience across these fields, joins me to discuss the unsightly silos that can form and how it's like a game of hot potato nobody wants to play. We dive deep into the heart of these divisions and brainst…

#29: How do you measure your growth as a product manager and accelerate your career? Join me and my guest, James Routledge, VP Product at Converge, as we share our insights and experiences in product management, focusing on the importance of execution and learning rates. James's background in engineering, venture capital, and entrepreneurship has s…

#28: In this insightful episode, I have the pleasure of chatting with Petra Wille, an independent product leadership coach and author of Strong Product People. We discuss the benefits and importance of creating a product community of practice, which can help product leads free up time and focus on people development. Listen in as Petra shares her r…

#27: In this episode, Axel chats with fellow product coaches Martin Christensen and Marcus Castenfors, co-authors of Holistic Product Discovery, a book that provides a structured framework for product discovery. And they caution against relying on a recipe for success – we can't all be Gordon Ramsay, after all. So, imagine you're the Karate Kid, an…

#26: PLG? What's The Fuss? Axel is back after a break with a refreshing conversation with Leah Tharin, a product leader and influencer who's regularly publishing impactful content on Product-Led Growth (PLG). In this episode, Leah shares her view on Product-Led Growth, what it means, what it looks like when it's done well and the traps you'll want …

#25: Hubert Palan is Founder and CEO of Productboard, a product management system that enables teams to inform their decision-making based on customer insights. Productboard was founded 8 years ago and now counts 400 employees and 6000 clients. In this episode, Axel dives into Hubert's 8-year journey at Productboard to learn about how product as a …

#24: In this episode, Axel has a conversation with Jean Liu, who's currently VP Product at Lyst, the world's largest online fashion catalogue. Jean is a trained neuroscientist and held the role of Head of Machine Learning Services at the BBC, driving the efforts behind content personalisation. Jean shares her technique about building trust and how …

#23: For over two decades Itamar Gilad held senior product management and engineering roles at Google, Microsoft and a number of startups. At Google, Itamar led parts of Gmail and was the head of Gmail’s growth team. Axel sits down with Itamar to discuss some of the frameworks he's been crafting through his journey and how they can help fellow Prod…

#22: Georgie Smallwood is Chief Product Officer at TIER and has a lot of experience building successful businesses. In this episode, Georgie and Axel dive into the reality of being an exec in a tech company, what it takes to steer an organisation in the current economic context, and the many learnings Georgie draws from her career. Where to find Ge…

#21: In this episode, Axel sits down with Mark Tsirekas - VP Product @ Zoe, a scientifically advanced nutrition program - and talk about what's involved in building a consumer product while irreversibly changing a category. We dive into the challenges of setting up a product practice with empowered, autonomous teams. Mark also talks about how the t…

#19: Stephanie Leue, CPO at Doodle, joins Axel for a conversation centered about developing high-performing product teams. With more than 30 million MAUs, Doodle is the leading enterprise scheduling technology helping the world's largest brands instantly set meetings with clients, colleagues and teams. Stephanie has over 20 years of experience in s…

#20: In this episode, Axel chats with Ravi Mehta, the Co-Founder and CEO of Outpace, a company that is reinventing the way that people learn and grow. We cover a range of topics across strategy, leadership and team growth. Axel invites Ravi to dive deeper on goal setting, the challenges posed by OKRs and how to use the NCT framework to set better g…

#18: Rico is Chief Product & Technology Officer at Which? Ltd, the UK’s consumer champion. Over a fifteen-year career, Rico has worked in Product roles in industries ranging from Media (BBC, ITV, Sky, NewsCorp) to eCommerce (Sainsbury's, Vodafone, Photobox) to Consultancy (Accenture). Collaborating on product and feature launches with Apple, Google…

#16: In this episode, Airbase's VP Product, Krishna Panicker, sits down with Axel to talk about the importance of focus for product managers and teams. Krish is a seasoned product manager with a career spanning over 20 years. He has a passion for building teams that drive growth and deliver consumer-grade experiences, as well as a deep curiosity fo…

#17: In this episode, Axel chats with Rhiannon White, who's CPO at Clue, a female-founded, female-led period tracking and reproductive health app for women and people with cycles worldwide. We cover the topic of driving product based on business and product outcomes, the importance of having a strong understanding of business model and how to lever…

#14: Tobias Dickmeis, CPO and co-founder at Tandem, sits down with Axel to talk about the journey of building Tandem, a language exchange app with over 20 million registered users. In this episode, we talk about Founder-Product fit, the challenges of acquisition and network effects in the context of a B2C app. We also touch on the tenets of communi…

#15: In this episode, we're trilled to host Floriane Gramlich who is CPO at Zalando Payments. Floriane is passionate about treating everything as a product, including her own career. She is dedicated to investing in product management and helping others improve in their craft. Floriane has a keen interest in narratives and writing papers and is try…

#13: In this episode, Axel chats with Francesca Cortesi, the CPO of Hemnet, one of the world’s most popular property portals and one of Sweden’s most beloved products. Through her career, she contributed to building some amazing digital products: from a global community for girls to express their creativity, to e-commerce platforms, a two-sided mar…

#12: In this episode, we are joined by Andre, a product and design leader at Kitch. Andre has a unique experience, starting his career at Google but now focusing on early-stage product management. He talks about the different profiles of product managers, the skills needed to thrive in each bucket, and how to hire for the early-stage product manage…

#11: AnyBill's Chief Product Officer, Alex Lüke, joins Axel to talk about how the Berlin-based startup is transforming the digital receipts landscape with their B2B solution. Axel and Alex talk about what it means to build a SaaS product at an early stage and the implications on how product drives value. Alex shares her perspective around building …

In this episode, I have a chat with Roman Pichler who has been advising, training and coaching Product Managers and leaders for over 15 years. We talk about The challenges faced by a new generation of product leaders The importance of growth and building a team vs. doing operational tasks The challenges of balancing management expectations and the …

This episode is dedicated to better understanding how you can kick-start research practices in your company, starting from scratch. For this highly in-demand topic, we're super excited to be hosting Nikki Anderson-Stanier. Why you should join the conversation 🚀 we're going to talk about all the things that have blocked you from launching your first…

In the product world, Gib is mostly known for spending five years (2005-2010) transforming Netflix from a startup to an industry dominator as the VP of Product Management. He is also a business speaker, product advisor, Stanford lecturer, and Board Observer and Executive-in-Residence for NerdWallet.By Axel Sooriah - Panash

I'm thrilled to be hosting Behzod Sirjani, one of the earlier Researchers at Facebook back in 2013, who went on to become Head of Research & Analytics Operations at Slack. We'll discuss a few topics including 🎖 The role of researchers in an organisation 💪🏽 The growing need for more people to conduct research 🧰 Enabling others in conducting research…

We're super excited to be speaking with Nesrine Changuel from the team at Google. Nesrine is a Senior Product Manager at Google and formerly at Spotify, Microsoft and Nokia. She has managed highly visible consumer products for the past eight years, focusing on strategic initiatives that distil deeply ingrained aspects of media experience into simpl…

We're super excited to be hosting Eduardo who was the very first UX Researcher at Miro and has seen the company evolve over the past year. Eduardo was hired to establish the mindset and approach to research, research processes, incorporate research tools and create the foundations of user understanding. In this session, we'll learn more about how h…

We're super excited to be hosting Teresa Torres on Product with Panash to talk about the release of her book "Continuous Discovery Habits". We talk about - Challenges product teams face in adopting discovery practices - Understanding how you can be an agent of change - How to embed Continuous Discovery Habits…

We're super excited to be launching our new show dedicated to Product Discovery, UX and Jobs-to-be-Done with none other than the inspirational and brilliant Bob Moesta. I'mjoined by Solène Lagrée and we both have a chat with Bob about JTBD interviews, going from theory to practice and how to integrate JTBD in your product management routines. Menti…

We're super excited to be hosting the wonderful Luky Primadani on Product with Panash. It's not an easy thing to grow UX as a practice in an organisation. It's even harder to make it central to your product decisioning and strategy and get your whole company on board. We thought we'd dive straight into this topic which proves challenging for many..…

Product Squad is proud to present this Live session with Marty Cagan from the Silicon Valley Product Group. In this Live session hosted by Axel Sooriah, creator and host of the Product Squad podcast, we'll talk about "Empowered", Marty's new book about how empowered teams are the key in creating extraordinary products. We'll also be joined for a sp…