The Product Experience

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Latest Episodes

How to validate product features - Jason Sparks (Principal Product Manager, ReUp Education)
November 05, 2025

Building the right thing is hard. Building the wrong thing is easy and costly. In this episode, Jason Sparks, Principal Product Manager at ReUp Education, dives deep into the discipline of continuous validation inside enterprise environments. From managin

Connect your product metrics to company goals - Elena Luneva (CPO and Coach)
October 29, 2025

Why do great product ideas fail to gain traction? According to Elena Luna, its rarely about the strategy and more often about the storytelling. In this episode of The Product Experience, Elena Luneva, a seasoned CPO, GM, and Maven instructor, joins Randy

A masterclass on rapid experimentation - Dan Dalton (Director of Product, Sage)
October 22, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, Lily and Randy speak with Dan Dalton (Director of Product Management at Sage) about the current state of product management, and how the role must evolve in todays climate. Chapters 0:00 Introduction: product m

Four behaviours that drive successful AI products - Matthew Certner (Partner and Garage Lead, IBM)
October 15, 2025

You cant build great products on gut instinct, and yet, according to IBMs global study of 1,000 enterprises, 77% of organisations using generative AI arent seeing any financial benefit. In this episode on The Product Experience podcast, Lily Smith sits

What do great product leaders do differently? Christian Idiodi (Partner, Silicon Valley Product Group)
October 08, 2025

Christian Idiodi, Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, and Co-author of the valuable product book Transformed, dismantles some of the most persistent myths in product leadership. Drawing from his global perspective and work across Africas fast-emerg

What obsessing over communication taught me - Sahil Jain (Co-Founder and CEO, Samepage.ai)
October 01, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, Lily Smith speaks with Sahil Jain, co-founder and CEO of Samepage.ai, about one of product managements hardest challenges: keeping teams aligned. From his early career at Yahoo and AOL to founding multiple star

Lessons from building healthcare products in Nigeria - Damilola Adelekan (Lead Product Manager, Remedial Health)
September 24, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, hosts Lily Smith and Randy Silver speak with Damilola Adelekan, Lead Product Manager at Remedial Health, who discusses building pragmatic, people-centred solutions in Africa’s fragmented and under-resourced healt

Why saying no to customers builds better products – Patrick Ndjientcheu (CPTO, Irembo)
September 17, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, Patrick Ndjientcheu, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Irembo, shares how his team transitioned from delivering projects for government to building a portfolio of scalable products. Patrick talks about shi

How product can work better with sales and marketing - Sally Foote (Advisor, Bower Collective)
September 10, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, Lily Smith speaks with Sally Foote, a seasoned product leader whose journey from product roles to C-suite commercial leadership spans Carwow, Go Compare, and The Guardian. They unpack the increasingly vital inter

Retention strategies for single-use products - Vivek Kumar (Investor and Advisor, Atlys)
September 03, 2025

Product decisions built on daily-active metrics fall apart when your customers show up once a year, or once a decade. In this episode, Randy Silver talks to Vivek Kumar about building and growing low-frequency products, from property and tax to jobs and d