The product management experts you follow shape how you think, decide, and grow. The right voices cut through the noise with practical frameworks, honest takes, and hard-won experience. I've pulled together the experts worth your attention—people who consistently share insights that make you a sharper product thinker and a more confident leader.
Top 27 Product Management Experts
Below are the profiles of the top product management experts, covering who they are and the impact they've made in this space.
Marty Cagan
Founder & Partner, Product at SVPG
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Product discovery#Empowered teams#Product operating model
Marty Cagan founded Silicon Valley Product Group after product leadership roles at HP, Netscape, and eBay, and has become a widely read author and advisor on building technology products.
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Teresa Torres
Author, Speaker, Product Discovery Coach at Product Talk
Bend, United States
Focus area:
#Continuous discovery#Customer interviews#Opportunity mapping#Experimentation
Teresa Torres is a product discovery coach, author, and speaker who teaches continuous discovery through Product Talk and her widely used book Continuous Discovery Habits to teams worldwide.
Torres turns discovery into…
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Melissa Perri
Product Management Expert, Advisor & Instructor
United States
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Product leadership#Product operations#Outcome-driven organizations
Melissa Perri is founder and CEO of Product Institute, author of Escaping the Build Trap, and a strategic advisor who has taught product management at Harvard Business School.
Her work helps…
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Petra Wille
Product Leadership Coach & Author
Hamburg, Germany
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Product coaching#Team development#Product culture
Petra Wille is an independent product leadership coach and author of STRONG Product People, known for practical frameworks that help product leaders develop managers, teams, and product culture.
Wille created the…
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Christian Idiodi
Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group
Chicago, United States
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Product discovery#Product transformation#Customer understanding
Christian Idiodi is a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group and veteran product leader who has built product organizations, led major launches, and advised companies on product transformation.
Idiodi brings hands-on experience…
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Itamar Gilad
Product Management Coach & Author
Barcelona, Spain
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Evidence-guided decisions#GIST#Product discovery
Itamar Gilad is a product management coach, author, and speaker with senior product and engineering experience at Google, Microsoft, and startups, including leadership work on Gmail and YouTube.
Gilad developed the GIST…
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Dan Olsen
Product Management & AI Trainer, Consultant, & Author
California, United States
Focus area:
#Product-market fit#Lean product#Product strategy#UX
Dan Olsen is a product management trainer, consultant, author, and speaker who leads Olsen Solutions and wrote The Lean Product Playbook, a practical guide to achieving product-market fit.
Olsen combines Lean…
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Roman Pichler
Product Management Expert & Author
United Kingdom
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Product leadership#Roadmapping#Agile product management
Roman Pichler is a product management expert, coach, trainer, and author whose work spans product strategy, leadership, roadmaps, and agility, including the widely used Product Vision Board.
Pichler has developed practical frameworks…
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Janna Bastow
Product Leader & Co-founder of ProdPad & Mind the Product
Brighton, United Kingdom
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Lean roadmapping#Outcome planning#Product leadership
Janna Bastow is co-founder and CEO of ProdPad, co-founder of Mind the Product, and a product management expert who helped create the Now-Next-Later roadmap for outcome-focused planning and decisions.
Bastow’s work spans…
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April Dunford
Positioning Consultant & Author
Toronto, Canada
Focus area:
#Product positioning#B2B technology#Go-to-market strategy#Competitive differentiation
April Dunford is a positioning consultant and author who spent 25 years leading marketing, product, and sales teams at B2B technology companies before developing her own positioning methodology.
Dunford's books Obviously Awesome…
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Gibson Biddle
Product Strategy Educator & Advisor
Bend, United States
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Customer obsession#Product leadership#Company culture
Gibson Biddle is a product strategy teacher, speaker, writer, and advisor who served as VP of Product at Netflix and Chief Product Officer at Chegg, bringing operator experience to his work.
Biddle…
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Ken Norton
Executive Coach to Product Leaders
San Francisco, United States
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Executive coaching#Leadership development#Product organizations
Ken Norton is an executive coach for senior product and technology leaders who spent more than 14 years at Google leading products including Docs, Calendar, and Mobile Maps before joining GV.
Norton…
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Rich Mironov
Product Executive Coach & Consultant
Lisbon, Portugal
Focus area:
#Product leadership#B2B product strategy#Pricing#Executive alignment
Rich Mironov is a product executive coach and consultant who has served as interim VP Product or CPO at numerous software companies and has decades of experience across startups and B2B technology.
…
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Scott Belsky
Entrepreneur, Product Advisor & Partner at A24
New York City, United States
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Creative technology#Product execution#AI products
Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, investor, author, and product advisor who founded Behance, led product and strategy at Adobe, and moved into filmmaking and storytelling as a partner at A24.
Belsky's product…
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Tim Herbig
Product Management Coach & Consultant
Hamburg, Germany
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Product discovery#OKRs#Outcome management
Tim Herbig is an independent product coach and consultant who helps teams improve product strategy, discovery, and outcome-oriented goal setting, drawing on years of product management experience.
Herbig connects product strategy, discovery,…
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Aakash Gupta
Product Educator & Writer
Los Angeles, United States
Focus area:
#AI product management#Product growth#Product strategy#PM careers
Aakash Gupta is a product educator and writer behind Product Growth, drawing on a decade in product and growth roles at thredUP, Affirm, and Apollo.io before moving into publishing and teaching.
Gupta…
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Martin Eriksson
Product Strategy Advisor & Author
London, United Kingdom
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Decision-making#Product leadership#Organizational design
Martin Eriksson is a product advisor, leadership coach, speaker, author, and co-founder of Mind the Product, drawing on decades of experience leading, founding, and advising product businesses.
Eriksson co-authored Product Leadership and…
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Shreyas Doshi
Product Leadership Advisor & Educator
Focus area:
#Product sense#Product leadership#Prioritization#Career development
Shreyas Doshi is a product leader, advisor, coach, and educator known for teaching product sense, leadership, career management, and decision-making after senior roles at major tech companies.
Doshi turns hard-to-articulate product judgment…
Lenny Rachitsky
Product Writer & Podcast Host
United States
Focus area:
#Product management#Product growth#Product strategy#Career development
Lenny Rachitsky is a writer and podcast host whose newsletter and interviews focus on building products, driving growth, and developing careers, drawing on earlier product experience at Airbnb.
Rachitsky has built a…
Eric Ries
Lean Startup Author, Entrepreneur & Chair at LTSE Services
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Focus area:
#Lean Startup#Experimentation#Validated learning#Innovation
Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author best known for The Lean Startup, which popularized a disciplined approach to building new products through experimentation, validated learning, and iteration.
Ries helped make…
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Jeremy D. Horn
Executive Product Advisor & Investor
New York, United States
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Product leadership#Executive advising#Product education
Jeremy D. Horn is an executive product advisor, investor, and founder of The Product Group and The Product Way, with more than two decades guiding product teams, executives, and technology companies.
Horn's…
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SC Moatti
Product Expert & Technology Investor
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Product strategy#Human-centered products#Technology investing
SC Moatti is founding managing partner of Mighty Capital and founder and board chair of Products That Count. A former Meta product leader, she also wrote the product management book Mobilized.
Moatti’s…
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Sachin Rekhi
Founder & CEO at Notejoy
San Francisco, United States
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Product leadership#Product execution#PM education
Sachin Rekhi is founder and CEO of Notejoy and a longtime product leader who previously led LinkedIn Sales Navigator and founded Connected, combining startup building with extensive product writing.
Rekhi shares practical…
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John Carter
Founder & Principal at TCGen
Menlo Park, United States
Focus area:
#Product development#Product strategy#Portfolio management#Innovation
John Carter is founder and principal of TCGen, a product management and development consultancy, and author of Innovate Products Faster, with earlier experience as chief engineer at Bose.
Carter has advised…
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Charles Du
Product Educator
Taiwan
Focus area:
#Product management#PM education#Mobile products#Career development
Charles Du is a product educator and former product manager with experience at NASA, Apple, and Ticketmaster who teaches product management through courses, workshops, coaching, and speaking.
Du focuses on helping career…
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Clement Kao
Educator & Detection Product Manager at Pano AI
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Focus area:
#Product development#Product leadership#Product metrics#PM education
Clement Kao is a product leader, educator, and writer with experience building software products and teaching product management through Product Manager HQ, Product Teacher, and operating roles.
Kao's writing covers product development,…
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Daniel Zacarias
Product Management Consultant, Writer & Managing Partner at Sidenote
Lisbon, Portugal
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Roadmapping#Prioritization#Product management craft
Daniel Zacarias is a product manager and consultant who writes about product management through his website, Folding Burritos, drawing on years of hands-on experience across product roles and advisory work.
Zacarias is…
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Selection Methodology
I selected the leaders on this list based on their relevance, demonstrated expertise and impact, professional credibility, and ongoing contributions to the field.
I look for evidence such as leading meaningful initiatives or delivering notable results within their organizations, developing influential ideas or practices, publishing research or educational resources, speaking or teaching, and other contributions that demonstrate impact within their work or the broader field.
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