Top 10 product management podcasts of 2026

Product management podcasts have become the venue where senior PMs say the things they won't say on stage. A two-hour recorded conversation has room for deeper dives – material a conference talk has to compress into a tidy before-and-after.

The format is also where PMs learn by eavesdropping. Listening to Melissa Perri press a guest on why a launch slipped, or Lenny Rachitsky push back on a pricing claim, is often more useful than reading the same person's book, because the interviewer is asking the follow-up questions the reader wants to ask. That depends on host and format, though. A daily ten-minute show covering PM news is doing a different job than a weekly long-form interview, and a PM two years into the role needs the long-form one.

Best picks by need

1. Lenny's Podcast – best for career growth and PM strategy

Lenny's Podcast is hosted by Lenny Rachitsky, a former Airbnb product lead who built one of the most widely read PM newsletters before launching the show in 2022. Episodes run 60 to 90 minutes with product leaders, founders, and growth practitioners.

What sets it apart is the depth. Lenny asks follow-up questions that get past surface-level answers. Guests share frameworks and specific numbers instead of abstract advice.

Best for: Mid-career PMs looking to sharpen strategy, growth, and leadership skills.

Start with: The episode with Chandra Janakiraman (CPO at VRChat, formerly Meta and Headspace) on building a product strategy playbook from scratch.

2. Product Thinking – best for product leadership and org design

Product Thinking is hosted by Melissa Perri, author of Escaping the Build Trap and CEO of Produx Labs. The podcast goes beyond daily PM tasks into product systems, team structures, key stakeholders, and how to move an organization from output-driven to outcome-driven.

Melissa brings a consulting lens. Guests are typically VPs of Product, CPOs, and heads of product operations at companies working through real structural challenges.

Best for: Senior PMs, product leaders, and anyone navigating the organizational side of product work.

Start with: The episode on avoiding common mistakes in org design, which explores structuring product teams around value streams rather than architecture.

3. This is Product Management – best for short, focused episodes

This is Product Management was created by Mike Fishbein and features product leaders from Adobe, Shopify, Under Armour, and others. Episodes run 15 to 25 minutes – perfect for a commute or lunch break.

The format is simple: how the guest got into product management, what challenges they face, and one or two concrete practices other PMs can steal.

Best for: New and mid-level PMs who want regular, manageable doses of practical advice.

Start with: The episode with Tiago Forte on building personal knowledge systems and prioritization frameworks to support better product decisions.

4. The Product Podcast – best for hearing from big-tech product leaders

The Product Podcast is hosted by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, founder and CEO of Product School. Guests include CPOs and product executives from Google, Netflix, Airbnb, and Shopify.

Carlos keeps episodes focused on career paths and the specific decisions that shaped product organizations. Conversational tone, even when the subject matter gets complex.

Best for: PMs at any level who want exposure to how product management works inside large-scale tech companies.

Start with: The episode with Elena Verna (Head of Growth at Lovable) on product-led growth and what separates fast-scaling startups from the rest.

5. How I Built This – best for founder stories and product inspiration

How I Built This is hosted by Guy Raz, produced by Wondery (originally NPR). Each episode tells the story of how a company was built – from the earliest idea through the hardest years to eventual scale. Founders of Airbnb, Spanx, Dyson, and hundreds more.

It's not exclusively about product management. But the themes – product-market fit, customer discovery, pivots, resource constraints – map directly to the decisions PMs face every quarter.

Best for: PMs who want to think more broadly about the business context behind the products they build.

Start with: The episode with Stewart Butterfield on how Slack emerged from a failed video game and the role that listening to early user feedback played in the pivot.

6. Intercom on Product – best for AI-era product leadership

Intercom on Product features Intercom's co-founder Des Traynor and CPO Paul Adams. The show tackles what it means to build software when AI changes the assumptions underneath your product strategy or product roadmap.

Recent episodes cover what happens when AI replaces interfaces, how product teams should rethink feature development, and what an AI-first product org actually looks like from the inside.

Best for: Product leaders working through AI integration, especially in B2B SaaS.

Start with: The conversation on shifting a product organization from AI-skeptical to AI-first, with Paul Adams walking through Intercom's own transition.

7. Product Love – best for conversations with senior product leaders

Product Love is hosted by Eric Boduch, co-founder of Pendo. Each episode features a senior product leader on the strategic and human sides of the role.

A standout: Nancy Wang, Head of Product and Engineering at AWS Backup, on representation in product management and the real differences between PMing at Google versus Amazon. Nancy also founded Advancing Women in Product, which runs workshops, webinars, and mentorship programs covering product analytics and leading through influence.

Best for: PMs interested in the intersection of product leadership, culture, and representation.

Start with: The Nancy Wang episode on representation, mentorship, and building a PM career across multiple big-tech environments.

8. Women in Tech with Ariana – best for underrepresented voices in tech

Women in Tech with Ariana is hosted by Ariana Waller, a keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of Wallway Technologies. The show features women in tech and entrepreneurship sharing practical resources for the industry.

Best for: PMs who want perspectives on diversity, inclusion, and career navigation in tech.

Start with: An episode with Bukola Somide, founder of CompSci ABC (Computer Science Awareness in Black Communities) and author of a children's book on computer science, covered self-belief as a driver of career change and making CS accessible to Black communities from an early age.

9. Masters of Scale – best for big-picture growth and leadership

Masters of Scale is hosted by Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn co-founder) and Jeff Berman. Guests include Bill Gates, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia, and others on how they built and scaled their organizations.

The show is also notable for its commitment to gender balance among guests. If you want to think more broadly about growth, culture, and organizational design, this is the one.

Best for: Product leaders and aspiring executives focused on scaling and stakeholder management at the organization level.

Start with: The episode with Brian Chesky (Airbnb CEO) on rebuilding a company during a crisis and rethinking what the product actually is.

10. Productside Stories – best for real-world product leadership lessons

Productside Stories features unfiltered conversations with product leaders from around the world. Run by Productside (formerly 280 Group), one of the longest-running PM training organizations.

The episodes focus on what product leadership actually looks like – the politics, the trade-offs, the moments where frameworks break down and judgment takes over.

Best for: Senior PMs and product directors who have outgrown beginner-level advice and want real operational stories.

Start with: Any episode on navigating product org transformations or cross-functional alignment challenges.

How to get the most out of PM podcasts

Don't try to listen to every show on this list. Pick two or three that match your current challenge.

Working through a communication plan problem or org alignment? Product Thinking and Intercom on Product will get you there faster. New to product and building foundational knowledge? Start with This is Product Management and The Product Podcast. Want inspiration and broader business context? How I Built This and Masters of Scale work as a pair.

One episode per week is enough. Treat it as a focused learning block, not background noise. For a broader set of books, newsletters, and courses, see our full product management resources roundup.