Top 15 Chief Product Officers to Follow in 2026
The best chief product officers don't just ship features—they shape how companies think about customers, priorities, and growth. If you want to sharpen your product leadership, following the right CPOs can change how you think. This list covers the CPOs worth your attention, from how they frame strategy to how they navigate ambiguity and lead teams.
Top 15 Chief Product Officers
Below are the profiles of the top chief product officers, covering who they are and the impact they’ve made in this space.
Anneka Gupta
Anneka Gupta is Chief Product Officer at Rubrik, bringing product and SaaS leadership shaped by senior roles at LiveRamp and a track record spanning product development and go-to-market.
Gupta leads product as…
Anneka Gupta is Chief Product Officer at Rubrik, bringing product and SaaS leadership shaped by senior roles at LiveRamp and a track record spanning product development and go-to-market.
Gupta leads product as Rubrik expands cyber resilience for an AI-driven security landscape. Her background spans product development, platform strategy, growth, and go-to-market, giving her a broad view of how product leaders turn complex enterprise needs into scalable software.
Nick Caldwell
Nick Caldwell is Chief Product Officer at Peloton, leading global hardware and software product development after senior product and engineering roles at Twitter, Reddit, Looker, and Microsoft.
Caldwell combines product and engineering…
Nick Caldwell is Chief Product Officer at Peloton, leading global hardware and software product development after senior product and engineering roles at Twitter, Reddit, Looker, and Microsoft.
Caldwell combines product and engineering leadership across consumer hardware, software, data, and online communities. At Peloton, he oversees the full product lifecycle as the company broadens its connected fitness and wellness experiences.
Dan Gill
Dan Gill is Chief Product Officer at Carvana, where he has led technology functions and strategic partnerships since 2015 after co-founding and leading consumer internet company Huddler.
Gill’s remit spans product, technology,…
Dan Gill is Chief Product Officer at Carvana, where he has led technology functions and strategic partnerships since 2015 after co-founding and leading consumer internet company Huddler.
Gill’s remit spans product, technology, and partnerships across Carvana’s vertically integrated retail, financing, and wholesale model. His work shows product leadership operating at the intersection of ecommerce, logistics, AI, and complex unit economics.
Ken Exner
Ken Exner is Atlassian’s Chief Product Officer, Enterprise & Emerging, after serving as CPO at Elastic and spending 16 years helping build AWS products, developer tools, and cloud platforms.
Exner has built…
Ken Exner is Atlassian’s Chief Product Officer, Enterprise & Emerging, after serving as CPO at Elastic and spending 16 years helping build AWS products, developer tools, and cloud platforms.
Exner has built developer tools, cloud services, enterprise software, and AI-era search products at AWS, Elastic, and Atlassian. His work centers on platforms and systems that help teams build and operate at scale, with recent emphasis on enterprise context for AI.
Eunice Kim
Eunice Kim is Chief Product Officer at Netflix, overseeing the member product experience after earlier product leadership roles at YouTube and Google Play before joining Netflix in 2021.
Kim leads the experience…
Eunice Kim is Chief Product Officer at Netflix, overseeing the member product experience after earlier product leadership roles at YouTube and Google Play before joining Netflix in 2021.
Kim leads the experience behind how Netflix members discover and watch entertainment, including recommendations and the company’s redesigned TV interface. Her work shows how product leadership can make complex personalization and technology feel simple to users.
Sachit Kamat
Sachit Kamat is Chief Product Officer at Eightfold AI, a product leader and entrepreneur whose career spans enterprise software, consumer internet, marketplaces, mobile products, and startups.
Kamat is shaping Eightfold’s agentic AI…
Sachit Kamat is Chief Product Officer at Eightfold AI, a product leader and entrepreneur whose career spans enterprise software, consumer internet, marketplaces, mobile products, and startups.
Kamat is shaping Eightfold’s agentic AI products for recruiting and talent, including AI interviewing and workforce tools. His work explores how product leaders can redesign workflows around AI while preserving human judgment in high-stakes decisions.
Ami Vora
Ami Vora is Head of Product at Anthropic, following product leadership at Faire. She has more than 15 years at Meta, where she led product and design for WhatsApp and worked across…
Ami Vora is Head of Product at Anthropic, following product leadership at Faire. She has more than 15 years at Meta, where she led product and design for WhatsApp and worked across ads and Instagram.
Vora’s career spans products used by billions of people, from WhatsApp and Meta’s advertising systems to Faire’s wholesale marketplace. At Anthropic, she now applies that product experience to responsible AI and how people interact with increasingly capable models.
Oji Udezue
Oji Udezue is Principal at ProductMind and a veteran product executive. His leadership career includes CPO roles at Typeform and Calendly and product roles at Twitter, Atlassian, and Microsoft.
Udezue has led…
Oji Udezue is Principal at ProductMind and a veteran product executive. His leadership career includes CPO roles at Typeform and Calendly and product roles at Twitter, Atlassian, and Microsoft.
Udezue has led product at Typeform, Calendly, Twitter, Atlassian, and Microsoft and co-authored Building Rocketships. Through ProductMind, he now focuses on product judgment, AI-native product development, and helping teams decide not just how to build faster, but what is worth building.
Mike Torres
Mike Torres is Dropbox’s first Chief Product Officer, joining after leading Chrome product at Google and holding senior product roles across Amazon’s Kindle and Microsoft’s OneDrive businesses.
Torres has helped major consumer…
Mike Torres is Dropbox’s first Chief Product Officer, joining after leading Chrome product at Google and holding senior product roles across Amazon’s Kindle and Microsoft’s OneDrive businesses.
Torres has helped major consumer products navigate platform shifts across OneDrive, Kindle, Chrome, and now Dropbox. His focus on customer needs, disciplined prioritization, and AI-shaped workflows offers a practical model for product leadership through technological change.
Carl Rivera
Carl Rivera is Chief Product Officer at Nubank, joining after seven years at Shopify in senior product and design roles, including Chief Design Officer and VP of Product for Merchant Services.
Rivera…
Carl Rivera is Chief Product Officer at Nubank, joining after seven years at Shopify in senior product and design roles, including Chief Design Officer and VP of Product for Merchant Services.
Rivera brings a design-and-product lens to Nubank after leading Shopify experiences across payments, financial services, retail, shipping, and commerce. His background makes craft, platform breadth, and AI-era product experience central themes in his leadership.
Gab Menachem
Gab Menachem is Chief Product Officer at Amplitude and a serial founder who built Loom Systems before its acquisition by ServiceNow, where he later led product in IT Operations Management.
Menachem combines…
Gab Menachem is Chief Product Officer at Amplitude and a serial founder who built Loom Systems before its acquisition by ServiceNow, where he later led product in IT Operations Management.
Menachem combines founder experience with enterprise AI and operations software. After building Loom Systems and scaling ServiceNow’s IT Operations Management business, he joined Amplitude to lead product, design, and growth as analytics evolves toward AI-native experiences.
Anjali Jameson
Anjali Jameson is Chief Product Officer at Transcarent, with a career building digital health products across Zipongo, Rally Health, UnitedHealth Group, Amazon/One Medical, and Apple teams.
Jameson has built healthcare products across…
Anjali Jameson is Chief Product Officer at Transcarent, with a career building digital health products across Zipongo, Rally Health, UnitedHealth Group, Amazon/One Medical, and Apple teams.
Jameson has built healthcare products across employers, payers, providers, and consumer platforms. At Transcarent, she leads product strategy around WayFinding and agentic AI, aiming to simplify navigation, improve care experiences, and address healthcare costs.
Hari Srinivasan
Hari Srinivasan is Chief Product Officer at LinkedIn Ecosystem, leading core member experiences, Talent Solutions products, subscriptions, and AI platforms after more than a decade at LinkedIn.
Srinivasan leads products spanning LinkedIn’s…
Hari Srinivasan is Chief Product Officer at LinkedIn Ecosystem, leading core member experiences, Talent Solutions products, subscriptions, and AI platforms after more than a decade at LinkedIn.
Srinivasan leads products spanning LinkedIn’s member graph, talent solutions, subscriptions, and AI platforms. His remit puts him at the center of how a professional network adapts discovery, hiring, and career experiences as AI changes the nature of work.
Irana Wasti
Irana Wasti is CEO of Thought Industries, following C-suite product leadership at BILL and Typeform and senior roles at GoDaddy, Intuit, and IBM across global software and small-business products.
Wasti’s product career…
Irana Wasti is CEO of Thought Industries, following C-suite product leadership at BILL and Typeform and senior roles at GoDaddy, Intuit, and IBM across global software and small-business products.
Wasti’s product career spans small-business software, SaaS, and financial operations, including CPO roles at Typeform and BILL. As CEO of Thought Industries, she now applies that product-led perspective to AI-powered customer learning, engagement, and growth.
PJ Linarducci
PJ Linarducci leads Google’s Consumer Payments Product Team after four years as Thumbtack’s Chief Product Officer and nearly a decade building commerce, payments, advertising, and messaging at Meta.
Linarducci has built and…
PJ Linarducci leads Google’s Consumer Payments Product Team after four years as Thumbtack’s Chief Product Officer and nearly a decade building commerce, payments, advertising, and messaging at Meta.
Linarducci has built and scaled commerce, payments, marketplaces, messaging, and advertising products across Meta and Thumbtack. He now leads Google’s Consumer Payments Product Team, extending his product leadership into payments and identity experiences.
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.
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