Why product managers are so stressed...and how to fix it - Lindsey Jayne (CPO, Financial Times)

Join us on this week's podcast as we sit down with Lindsay Jayne, the Chief Product Officer at the Financial Times, to uncover her insights and strategies for managing the immense pressure of the product role. Lindsay takes us through her career journey, transitioning from government digital services to startups and eventually to a large organisation like the Financial Times. We discuss the dual challenges product managers often face, from a lack of understanding of their role in non-tech organizations to the relentless pressure from venture capital in tech companies.
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Lily Smith enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Chief Product Officer at BBC Maestro, and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Lily also founded ProductTank Bristol and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

Randy Silver is a Leadership & Product Coach and Consultant. He gets teams unstuck, helping you to supercharge your results. Randy's held interim CPO and Leadership roles at scale-ups and SMEs, advised start-ups, and been Head of Product at HSBC and Sainsbury’s. He participated in Silicon Valley Product Group’s Coaching the Coaches forum, and speaks frequently at conferences and events. You can join one of communities he runs for CPOs (CPO Circles), Product Managers (Product In the {A}ether) and Product Coaches. He’s the author of What Do We Do Now? A Product Manager’s Guide to Strategy in the Time of COVID-19. A recovering music journalist and editor, Randy also launched Amazon’s music stores in the US & UK.