The Product Experience

The Product Experience


Latest Episodes

How to lead when you don't have authority - Sean Flaherty (ITX Corp)
January 14, 2026

In this episode of The Product Experience, host Lily Smith speaks with veteran product leader Sean Flaherty about a question at the heart of modern product management: how do you influence without authority? Drawing from behavioural science and decades of

How to manage product managers without micromanaging - Mariah Craddick (Executive Director of Product, The Atlantic)
January 07, 2026

In this episode of The Product Experience, Mariah (Executive Director of Product at The Atlantic) discusses the often-vague transition from being a great Product Manager to becoming an effective manager of people. Drawing on her background as a journalist

What high-confidence product managers do differently - Axel Sooriah (Atlassian)
December 31, 2025

Product managers are saving hours with AI, yet feel more uncertain than ever about whether their products will succeed. Whats going on? In this episode of The Product Experience, Lily Smith and Randy Silver sit down with Axel Sooriah, product management

Rerun: AI ethics advice from former White House technologist - Kasia Chmielinski (Co-Founder, The Data Nutrition Project)
December 24, 2025

In this episode of the Product Experience Podcast, we speak with Kasia Chmielinski, co-founder of The Data Nutrition Project, who discusses their work on responsible AI, data quality, and the Data Nutrition Project. Kasia highlights the importance of bala

How to build a product-driven engineering team - Matt Watson (Founder, Full Scale)
December 17, 2025

What does it take to build truly product-driven engineering teams? In this episode, Matt Watson founder and CEO of Full Scale and author of Product Driven joins Lily and Randy to challenge the longstanding silos between product and engineering. Drawin

How to prototype with AI in hours - Prerna Singh (CPTO, Avaaz, Meetup, IBM)
December 10, 2025

In this episode, Prerna Singh, CPTO at Avaaz, walks us through how AI is reshaping the way we prototype, learn and build digital products. Rather than replacing teams or skipping straight to production, she argues that AI shines when used as a “thought pa

How to measure impact in platform product management - Teresa Huang (Head of Product, Bupa)
December 04, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, host Randy Silver speaks with Teresa Huang Head of Product for Enablement at global healthinsurer Bupa about the oftenoverlooked world of platform product management. They explore why building internal plat

Lessons in platform product management - Teresa Huang (Head of Product, Bupa)
December 03, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, host Randy Silver speaks with Teresa Huang Head of Product for Enablement at global healthinsurer Bupa about the oftenoverlooked world of platform product management. They explore why building internal plat

A better approach to the product team process - John Cutler (Head of Product, Dotwork)
November 26, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, host Randy Silver sits down with product veteran John Cutler to explore why creating great products remains one of the hardest things organisations do. They dive into why so many companies adopt off‑the‑shelf mod

How to design AI products that users trust - Nina Olding (Gemini, Meta, Weights & Biases)
November 19, 2025

In this episode, Nina Olding, Staff Product Manager at Weights & Biases and formerly at Google DeepMind, working on trust and compliance for AI, joins Randy to explore the UX challenges of AIdriven features. As AI becomes increasingly woven into digi