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A recovering music journalist &amp; editor, Randy Silver has been working as an interactive producer &amp; product manager across the US &amp; UK for nearly 20 years. After launching Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK, Randy has worked with museums and arts groups, online education, media &amp; entertainment, retail and financial services.  He’s held Head of Product roles at HSBC and Sainsbury’s, where he also directed their 100+-person product community.   He's also spoken at Mind the Product Engage (Hamburg), at a number of ProductTanks (London, Zurich, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford,  &amp; Brighton... so far!) and at conferences across the US and Europe.

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Earlier this year,<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-14548 alignright" src="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/the-product-experience-headphones-300x300.png" alt="The Product Experience logo" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/the-product-experience-headphones-300x300.png 300w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/the-product-experience-headphones-150x150.png 150w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/the-product-experience-headphones-768x768.png 768w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/the-product-experience-headphones-1024x1024.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> I had the chance to speak at Mind the Product/Engage in Hamburg. It was a fantastic experience, and an opportunity I didn&#8217;t want to waste. In preparation, I took the chance to give the talk a few dry-runs at ProductTanks across the UK &#8211; and I learned something that was obvious, but which I&#8217;d never really thought about: you lot are really smart. The quality and calibre of speakers taking part in our meetups is consistently good and regularly excellent. I learned something every time I shared the stage with other people from the product world.
ProductTank is now held regularly in more than 160 cities. It&#8217;s a full-fledged global movement of people collaborating on how they can make better products, and improve the way in which they build those products too. That&#8217;s something to be very proud of.
But&#8230; Only a handful of these meetups regularly record and post videos of their talks. That&#8217;s a lot of great learning that doesn&#8217;t get the attention it deserves. And that led to an idea: What if we could talk to the best presenters from ProductTanks all over the world, and share it in a podcast?
That led to Lily Smith and I creating The Product Experience with Mind the Product. We&#8217;ve spent the past few months talking to some immensely talented people, and we can&#8217;t wait to share the conversations. You&#8217;ll recognise some of the names &#8211; but some of the best chats are with people you&#8217;ve likely never heard of. These are some of my favourites &#8211; the product people who are down in the trenches with some killer insights on one or two very specific things.
Today we&#8217;re posting the trailer for the series, so look for the full episodes to follow soon!
In the true spirit of our craft, this is very much a work in progress. You&#8217;re our customer: we&#8217;d love your feedback and participation, and we promise to never give you an NPS survey.
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About the hosts:
An organiser of ProductTank Bristol, Lily Smith works with growing businesses as a consultant product manager providing product leadership, process guidance, hands-on delivery and mentoring to founding teams and their product managers. She&#8217;s led teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery phases for more than 13 years, primarily in the SaaS and mobile spaces.
See Randy&#8217;s bio below.

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Podcast

The journey to SVP Product – 3 things to know (Shannon Scott, Airwallex)

What are common product diseases? And how can you overcome them?

How to get alignment from the board with your AI strategy

The 7 key strategies for product growth – Aakash Gupta (PLG Expert)

How do you avoid burnout in product management?

Understanding Product Equity in Tech – Glenn Block (Founder and CEO, ProdSense)

How GenAI has improved GoDaddy’s product experience – Laka Sriram (VP Generative AI, GoDaddy)

It’s not you, it’s them – frustrating things orgs do – Keji Adedeji (Product Leader and Coach)

How Yahoo creates a great experience for its users – Kameron Canbaz (Product Manager, Workflow and UX at Yahoo)

AI ethics advice from former White House technologist – Kasia Chmielinski (Co-founder, The Data Nutrition Project)

Ear Worm: the Product Experience Podcast is here

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