Productside Stories
Productside Stories
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Productside Stories

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Welcome to Productside Stories, a product management podcast featuring honest conversations with experienced product leaders. We cover what it really takes to build successful, outcome-driven products: from strategy and discovery to delivery, leadership, and AI.

Hosted by Productside, a product management training and consulting company, this podcast is designed for PMs and product leaders who want practical insight (not theory) for modern product work.
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AI, Agents, and Accountability
02 December 2025

AI, Agents, and Accountability

AI Won’t Save Your Roadmap: How Product Managers Stay in Charge with Roger Snyder AI is everywhere… including in your backlog, your boss’s OKRs, and probably your next performance review. In this episode, Rina sits down with Productside Principal Consultant and Trainer, Roger Snyder, to cut through the noise. They dig into what AI is actually good at, where it goes off the rails, and why product...
Leading with Impact When the Stakes Are Water-Level High
25 November 2025

Leading with Impact When the Stakes Are Water-Level High

Leading Product Work in a World Where Failure Isn’t an Option When your “product” is clean drinking water, the margin for error is… basically zero. In this episode, Portland Water Bureau Interim Director Quisha Light takes us inside the realities of leading innovation in a space defined by public trust, mission-driven work, slow-moving systems, and life-or-death stakes. From navigating union...
Product-Market Fit, GTM, and Founder Myths with Shweta Agrawal
17 November 2025

Product-Market Fit, GTM, and Founder Myths with Shweta Agrawal

How to Find Product-Market Fit (Without Fooling Yourself) Founders love to sprint. Markets prefer you walk, listen, and maybe ask a few humans what they actually want. In this episode, product leader and startup advisor Shweta Agrawal joins Rina to break down why so many early-stage teams skip the fundamentals (customer discovery, focus, ICP clarity) and pay the price later. From health-tech to...
From Retail Floors to Product Strategy: Building a Career Around Customers
11 November 2025

From Retail Floors to Product Strategy: Building a Career Around Customers

From Best Buy to Oldcastle: How Jennifer Sabetti Built a Career on Customer-Centric Leadership Early in her career, Jennifer Sabetti learned a simple truth at Best Buy: “Have fun while being the best.” Today, as VP of Product Strategy at Oldcastle Infrastructure, that mindset shapes how she leads teams, hires talent, and mentors the next generation of PMs. In this episode of Trailblazing Women in...
From Layoff to Launch: Building an AI Business from the Ground Up
04 November 2025

From Layoff to Launch: Building an AI Business from the Ground Up

From Layoff to Launch: Building an AI Businessfrom the Ground Up with Cooper CraigWhen a product manager loses his job, what happens next? For Cooper Craig, it meant building his own AI automation agencyfrom scratch. In this episode, he shares how grit, community, and product thinking helped him rebuild—turning job loss into a thriving business. From building voice agents that actually sound...
How Typeform Became AI-First (without Losing Its Human Touch)
28 October 2025

How Typeform Became AI-First (without Losing Its Human Touch)

Building an AI-First Organization the Typeform Way with Aleks Bass What does “becoming AI-first” actually look like inside a real company? Aleks Bass, Chief Product Officer (and interim CPTO) at Typeform, joins Rina Alexin to reveal how she’s leading an AI transformation that’s as human as it is technical. From breaking down walls between product and engineering to turning procurement into a...
Inside AI Product Management: From Infrastructure to Innovation with Digvijay Singh of YouTube
21 October 2025

Inside AI Product Management: From Infrastructure to Innovation with Digvijay Singh of YouTube

The Future of AI Product Management with Digvijay Singh (YouTube Ads) AI has been around for a while now but the PM role within it is evolving faster than ever. In this episode, Digvijay Singh, Senior Product Manager at YouTube Ads, joins Rina Alexin to unpack the three layers of AI Product Management: infrastructure, models, and applications. From writing evals to training “intern” models,...
Sharpen the Saw: How Learning Fuels Product Leadership
14 October 2025

Sharpen the Saw: How Learning Fuels Product Leadership

Trailblazing Women in Product Management with Pinky PanjwaniIn this episode, Nicole Tieche sits down with Pinky Panjwani, Director of Product Management for Striven at Miles Technologies, to talk about what it means to lead through learning. From crossing the chasm to building a team culture rooted in growth and simplicity, Pinky shares how persistence, patience, and a sharp sense for clarity...
Building Platform Products That Scale: From Chaos to Structure with Aindra Misra
07 October 2025

Building Platform Products That Scale: From Chaos to Structure with Aindra Misra

Building Platform Products That Scale — Without Drowning in Stakeholders Platform products are some of the most complex beasts in product management. They have to serve multiple teams, stay flexible, and scale across the org—all while keeping technical and business needs in sync. In this episode, Rina Alexin chats with Aindra Misra, Director of Product Management for AI, Data, and Developer...
Jose Quesada on Discovery, Strategy, and Stakeholder Judo at Amex
30 September 2025

Jose Quesada on Discovery, Strategy, and Stakeholder Judo at Amex

Jose Quesada on Discovery, Strategy, and the Value of Product Management Jose Quesada, VP of Product Management at American Express, joins Rina Alexin to unpack how Amex built a globally recognized mobile app by running discovery and delivery in parallel. From killing bad ideas quickly to making strategy concrete, Jose shows how product leaders can balance long-term vision with day-to-day...