Some of our latest Leader Spotlight interviews
A roundup of LogRocket's Leadership Spotlight interviews from the week of July 21-25.
LogRocket’s Leader Spotlight series is an interview series with product leaders across a variety of industries, including healthtech, fintech, edtech, and more. Check out a roundup of some of our newest Leader Spotlight interviews below.
Leading with influence, with Anand Narayanan
Anand Narayanan is Head of Product, Jira Scale, and India Product Site Lead at Atlassian. In this interview, we discuss how he:
Leads distributed teams by aligning stakeholders through perspective-taking, shared language, and structured autonomy
Trains PMs to adapt between B2B and B2C mindsets by emphasizing product sense and leaning into experimentation
Encourages PMs to embrace AI as a tool for faster prototyping, better data analysis, and continuous problem-solving at scale
Incorporating AI top-down and bottom-up, with Ram Almog
Ram Almog is Director of Product Management at vcita, a business management platform designed for SMB service providers. In this interview, we discuss how he:
Builds a culture of empowered teams by embedding continuous discovery and business outcome thinking into everyday product work
Scales AI adoption through a mix of top-down strategy and bottom-up initiatives like company-wide hackathons
Encourages teams to navigate the complexities of AI implementation by developing domain-specific knowledge and evolving traditional product-engineering workflows
Acknowledging and overcoming biases, with Laren Agius
Laren Agius is Director of Product at Beatport, a worldwide home of electronic music for DJs, producers, and their fans. In this conversation, he talks about how he:
Builds a research-first culture by encouraging teams to write down and talk through biases before forming hypotheses and interview questions
Uses signals like cost-benefit analysis, user segmentation, and alignment with strategic goals to move from discovery to build
Promotes agile as a mindset rooted in collaboration, continuous feedback, and adapting to change, not just using the right tools
Looking for innovation in even the smallest areas, with Michael Harker
Mike Harker is the VP of Product and Design at Ritchie Bros. In this interview, he discusses how he:
Leads digital transformation by modernizing legacy systems and bringing cross-functional teams together around what matters most: customer value
Balances the push and pull of running a marketplace, and how he navigates operational challenges by connecting siloed systems, scaling internal tools, and focusing on iterative wins
Grounds product strategy in field insights, with real customer conversations, and how trust plays a key role when your platform is tied to your customers’ livelihoods
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