Top 15 Chief Product Officers to Follow in 2026

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.

Cameron Adams is Canva's co-founder and Chief Product Officer, leading product and design at the visual communication platform. His earlier career includes design consultancy work and product design at Google.

Adams helped build Canva around making design accessible to everyone. His leadership spans product innovation, user experience, AI-powered creative tools, and a culture that gives teams room to experiment. His approach connects ambitious product development with simplicity and broad adoption.

Inbal Shani is Twilio's Chief Product & Technology Officer, leading product, engineering, and R&D strategy. Her career includes senior leadership roles at GitHub, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft.

Shani brings product and engineering together to advance developer tools, AI-powered solutions, and cloud communications. Her work emphasizes turning complex technologies into useful products, improving developer productivity, and aligning technical innovation with customer needs and business outcomes.

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.

Cem Kansu is Duolingo's Chief Product Officer, having risen through its product organization from product manager to executive leadership. He previously led monetization and helped develop Super Duolingo.

Kansu helped Duolingo grow its subscription business while protecting the free learning experience. His work spans pricing, experimentation, product growth, and AI-powered learning features. He also advocates simplifying product decisions and using AI to accelerate development and improve learning experiences.

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 is Atlassian’s Chief Product Officer, Enterprise and 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.

Sachin Kansal is Uber's Chief Product Officer, overseeing product management, design, and operations across its Mobility and Delivery businesses. He previously held product leadership roles at Lookout, Flywheel, and Palm.

Kansal joined Uber to lead safety technology and now guides products serving riders, drivers, couriers, and customers worldwide. His responsibilities also extend to autonomous vehicles, sustainability, and emerging mobility services, bringing a strong focus on trust and scalability to product leadership.

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 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.

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 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 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 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 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.