What changes when a product leader builds strategy around a single guiding metric and augments decision-making with AI-driven understanding? In this podcast hosted by Rachel Owens, Atelier by FIS SVP of Product Jon Eisenstein will be speaking on transforming product strategy through North Star metrics and AI-powered insights. Jon shares his entrepreneurial journey and breakthrough approaches to aligning product development with business goals, drawing from his extensive experience across technology, financial services, and startup ecosystems.
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Show Notes
- Develop a durable North Star Metric that aligns entire organizations
- Use AI as a thought partner to validate strategic decisions
- Write press releases and pre-mortems before starting product development
- Understand business fundamentals as a critical product leadership skill
- Cascade OKRs and KPIs to support your North Star Metric
- Take more risks early in your career when stakes are lower
- Build and nurture professional networks consistently
- Be passionate about your product, but obsessed with solving the problem
- Listen and explore ideas before pushing back on external pressures
- Treat product management as a business generalist role
- Use AI to enhance research and decision-making processes
- Challenge and refine North Star Metrics periodically
- Align all team efforts toward a single, clear organizational goal
- Understand the difference between vision, press release, and pre-mortem
- Explore negative pre-mortems to anticipate potential failure points
- Maintain flexibility while staying committed to core strategic objectives
- Continuously learn about emerging technologies and industry trends
- Develop communication skills to navigate complex organizational dynamics
- Prioritize problem-solving over rigid product specifications
- Create collaborative environments that encourage strategic thinking
About the speaker
Jon has an extensive history in Business Leadership, Product Development and Technology, with experience across Tech (Google, Facebook (Meta)), complex multinationals (PwC, General Electric), mid-caps and early-stage companies. His expertise is in extracting business value from technology, whether that is from building and launching businesses, bringing products to market, migrating core business platforms to more scalable and extensible solutions, leaning and automating business processes or refocusing diverse portfolios of projects/products to land business outcomes.
About the host
Rachel Owens is an experienced product and operations executive with an exemplary record of bringing new products and businesses to market under her leadership. Rachel’s leadership experiences span start ups to Fortune 500 companies building business focused on sw/hw solutions, software applications, and a consumer IoT device & app. Rachel has 2 decades of experience with much of it working in health tech, IoT, and big data to drive AI enabled AdTech and recommendation engines. Rachel has a proven track record of establishing and building strong profitable relationships with strategic business partners.