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Nan Yu at Config: “You ship your org chart.” If you have 5-8 product squads each pursuing a different mandate, you’re not going to ship one product, you’re going to ship 5-8 vaguely related products. Instead, design the org chart you want to ship: 1. Start from the shape of the product and work backwards 2. Pick scope for teams by setting clear limits and conditions (e.g. technical / skill set) 3. Over-provision teams for what’s important: incur debt, pay it back, address requests Linear has a messy, asymmetrical org chart with one big core product team split by geography and small teams for mobile, infra, and website.

So excited for Jiaona Zhang (JZ) to join us on Sauce's next AI for Product. "The best product leaders are chameleons. They lean into different functions to build the best product. They are able to wear different hats & act as a glue. They spot what needs work & go fill that hole." We'll unpack the spiciest 'AI for Product' Qs and what it's like to scale impactful products as CPO Linktree, SVP Product at Webflow and Head of Product at Airbnb. Got questions for JZ?

Claire Vo's hot take at Config just now: "Manager roles will become more rare, we're entering the era of the Super IC Product Manager." What does a Super IC PM look like? 1. Scrappiness and hustle: Can you get stuff done? 2. Commercial mindset: How does the product drive revenue? 3. Be indispensable: Can you work on any part of the product? These are the PM attributes top product leaders are hiring for now.

We have Jiaona Zhang (JZ) on Sauce's next AI for Product! JZ is the CPO at Linktree and has scaled some of the world's most impactful product teams as SVP Product at Webflow, Snr Director PM at WeWork and Head of Product at Airbnb. I've admired JZ for a long time and can't wait!! Have burning questions about AI for Product? What do you want to know from one of the world's best product leaders?

💰 Unlock Gong Sales Insights in Real-time 💰 We're so excited to ship our most requested integration! Sauce x Gong = 🚀 Automatically analyse Gong sales calls and extract top trending feature requests and product issues in real-time. Identify reasons for lost deals and churn risks to prioritise product impact faster with Sauce AI. Start free: https://sauce.app/

🔍 Smart Search your AI Insights 🔍 Smart Search auto-expands your search scope by adding related terms. For example, instead of searching for "German" and "French" separately, you can just search "Localisation" to find related requests and issues. Try free: https://sauce.app/

Leya AI is one of the world's fastest growing language apps. They are adding users at lightning speed and are already making an impact on their mission to bring personal coaching to the world. How do they scale their team? Everyone's focused on product impact. We're so excited to be powering this team with Sauce AI. Thanks for the shoutout Thivanka De Silva! Leya AI's high-performing team is based in Lithuania 🇱🇹 Netherlands 🇳🇱 Estonia 🇪🇪 Croatia 🇭🇷 and India 🇮🇳 PS you can unlock your AI product insights in than 5 mins too: https://sauce.app/

Claire Vo runs the best AI hackathons. How do you get your exec teams onboard to go after impactful AI opportunities? Full video in comments 👇

We've had the best time in San Francisco over the last 3 weeks! Feels like we've fast-tracked a year or two of learnings and keep levelling-up Sauce AI's ambition for the future of Product. A few highlights so far: 🔥 Hosted our 'AI for Product' fireside with Claire Vo & Joff Redfern We had 200 epic product people in-person for our first SF fireside chat, as we build the next gen community of product people who want to ship more impact every day. (Fireside video in comments) 🚀 Jamming with product legends So excited for our next one Ely Lerner Jiaona Zhang (JZ) Chloe Feng Rahul Amlekar John Young Mick Stapleton Kai Mashima David Fulham Seb Agudelo Chilann Chan Phillip Bernard Amiram Mizne Bill Takacs Liz Fireman Julia Omelchuk 🇺🇦 Kate Holub Mateusz Tylicki & so many more! ⛰ And a bunch of other epic adventures! Hiking Yosemite, meeting friends from all over the 🌎 rooftop sessions, boogying to Solomun live, comedy with Jay Pharoah... This place has a special energy when you throw yourself into it. Can't wait for what's next!! James Gabb

Claire Vo and Joff Redfern are on the leading edge of 'AI for Product' globally. I spoke to hundreds of CPOs & PMs and realised they want to be more aggressive on AI and had so many unanswered questions. I couldn't think of two better product leaders to join us at Sauce's 'AI for Product' fireside in SF to answer these questions. Claire Vo is the CPO of LaunchDarkly ($3B), former CPO at Color & Optimizely, and building the PM AI CoPilot, ChatPRD. Joff Redfern is a Partner at Menlo Ventures, former CPO at Atlassian ($42B) and former VP Product at LinkedIn & Yahoo. 👇 Here are my top 6 lessons (full video in comments) 1. Upskill your product teams to be ‘GenAI fluent’ Claire: “Be aggressive with the tasks your teams offload to AI and normalise it as an executive. For example, on everything I generate with an AI tool, I put a prompt at the bottom and attribute it with an author to say ‘I’m the Chief Product Officer, I use AI tools and you should too'. Empower your team with budget and training.” 2. Embrace paradigm shifts by starting with a small team Joff: “At LinkedIn we took a small team and said ‘this is our mobile team.’ Then this gets moved to a platform team… then eventually it gets diffused throughout every team in the organisation. I see the same pattern emerging with AI. At Atlassian it started with a small team doing a spike which focused on learning and experimentation.” 3. AI enables you to achieve more with less Claire: “The cost of building is collapsing and speed of building is accelerating. Ask yourself - am I shipping as fast as I can? I’m building ChatPRD with 1.5 employees, I’m actually 0.5 of an employee as I do this at nights outside my day job as a CPO. I’m coding at nights and am support after 7pm… I truly believe there will be a 1 person, $5 billion company.” 4. Reimagine workflows from the ground up Joff: ”Many startups are trying to speed up one step of a workflow. But I think the better answer is to step back and ask - now that the marginal cost of reasoning with AI is trending to zero, what does the world look like if we were to reimagine what we’re doing today from the ground up?” 5. Use AI hack weeks to get leadership bought in Claire: “As the CPO of Color I’d run AI hack weeks every 6 weeks. I gave our exec teams pre-reading on how AI works, then they had to automate something (e.g. generate a product marketing video which our CCO had been waiting 6mo for previously). This opened their eyes to what’s possible, they understood the impact of AI.” 6. Generalists will win in the AI world Joff: "9 years ago I wrote an article called the 'PM craft triangle' which says a PM can be a General Manager, Scientist or Artist. It was difficult to be the best at all so I advised to go deep on being the best at one of these corners. But now AI allows you to be at the centre of the triangle and smooth your weaker corners with CoPilots. Generalist skill sets will do well in the AI world." Full video in comments 👇