About this episode

Jon Hyman discusses balancing a public-company roadmap with AI innovation and the Product Health framework at Braze.

Jon Hyman (CTO & Co-Founder @ Braze) returns to the podcast to share how he balances a mature, public-company roadmap with visionary AI innovation! We deconstruct Braze’s quantitative "Product Health" framework - a scoring system used to resolve competing prioritizations and mandate technical remediation. We also discuss shifting engineering leaders to think like GMs, how to realign teams by connecting abstract “vision” to specific releases, goals & outcomes. Plus, Jon’s three-tier mental model for AI products, how to identify AI features that actually drive revenue, and reimaging your product for future channels, teams and skills.

People in this episode

Guest: Jon Hyman

Topics covered

• engineering leadership
• AI innovation
• product management
• team alignment
• visionary roadmap
• quantitative frameworks

Keywords

• engineering leaders
• AI features
• revenue generation
• product strategy
• team realignment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Braze, Engineering Leadership Community

Products: Product Health

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