Top 27 Product Management Experts to Follow in 2026

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 product organizations move from shipping features to creating measurable outcomes. Through Product Operations, executive education, and advisory work, Perri explores product strategy, operating models, governance, and the systems leaders need to scale strong product teams.

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 from product leadership, consulting, and teaching. His work emphasizes strong product discovery, empowered teams, customer understanding, and the organizational changes required to adopt a product operating model.

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 for product vision, strategy, roadmapping, and leadership. His books, workshops, articles, and videos help product professionals connect strategic choices with effective collaboration and delivery.

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 product strategy, roadmapping, discovery, and leadership. Through ProdPad, coaching, workshops, and writing, she challenges rigid timeline roadmaps and helps teams connect priorities to customer problems, business objectives, and evidence.

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 teaches product strategy through practical models, cases, and workshops, including his DHM framework for delight, hard-to-copy advantage, and margin. His work connects customer insight, strategy, culture, and decision-making for product leaders.

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 combines deep product operating experience with leadership coaching focused on emotional intelligence, conscious leadership, and ambitious thinking. His work helps senior product leaders navigate complexity while expanding their leadership capacity.

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.

Mironov focuses on the organizational and economic realities of product leadership: strategy, pricing, prioritization, executive alignment, and working with sales. His coaching helps product leaders connect what teams can build with what markets will pay for.

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 perspective spans creative tools, platform strategy, AI, and the messy middle of execution. His work at Behance and Adobe, alongside his writing and investing, offers product leaders a view of how creative ideas become durable products and businesses.

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, and OKRs rather than treating them as separate practices. His courses, workshops, and writing help teams turn strategic choices into testable opportunities, useful evidence, and measurable product outcomes.

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 publishes tactical deep dives on AI product management, growth, strategy, and product careers, often grounded in practitioner interviews. His work translates fast-moving changes in product practice into detailed playbooks for builders and leaders.

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 wrote The Decision Stack, extending his work from product craft into strategic clarity and decision-making. He helps boards, founders, and product leaders connect customer needs, technology choices, organizational design, and business outcomes.

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 into memorable frameworks for prioritization, execution, influence, and high-agency work. His courses and writing help product managers reason more clearly about both product decisions and their own effectiveness.

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 large practical library from interviews with product, growth, design, and startup operators. His work distills patterns on product strategy, discovery, metrics, hiring, growth, and team practices into actionable guidance for practitioners.

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 work spans product strategy, leadership, education, and community building. He has taught product management, advised organizations through high-stakes decisions, and built communities that connect practitioners around stronger product judgment.

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 work connects product management with company growth and investment. Through Products That Count, her writing, research, and investing, she examines what makes products succeed, how CPOs shape business performance, and how AI is changing product teams, strategy, and the skills needed to build products.

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 frameworks on product strategy, leadership, execution, and career development drawn from operating experience. His essays and courses help product managers strengthen judgment across the full craft, from vision to day-to-day decisions.

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 transitioners and accidental product managers build practical PM skills. His teaching draws on hands-on experience designing high-traffic mobile products and translates product craft into approachable tools for working practitioners.

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, metrics, stakeholder management, leadership, and career growth. He is especially effective at breaking ambiguous PM challenges into structured frameworks that practitioners can apply to real decisions and teams.

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 known for clear, practical writing on product strategy, roadmaps, prioritization, and the day-to-day craft of product management. His work helps practitioners question common rituals and make more deliberate choices about problems, plans, and tradeoffs.