October 16, 2025
Are you ready to see how AI is transforming sales forever? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Renee Niemi, Involve.ai CPO Saumya Bhatnagar will be speaking on transforming sales with AI-powered SDR agents. Saumya shares her groundbreaking insights on how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales strategies, reducing manual work, and enabling teams to focus on relationship-building and strategic growth.
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Show Notes:
- AI is transforming sales from assistant to autonomous agent
- Product management is evolving to be more strategic and creative
- Prioritize solving user problems over building features
- Implement a dynamic roadmap that adapts to changing priorities
- Use OKRs to drive innovation and take calculated risks
- Break down complex problems using first-principle thinking
- Maintain a learning mindset and be comfortable being wrong
- AI tools are reducing barriers between product and engineering teams
- Focus on a single North Star metric tied to user value
- Create a culture of continuous innovation
- Encourage teams to explore multiple solution paths
- Sales will shift to relationship-building as AI handles prospecting
- Product leaders should communicate vision consistently
- Embrace failure as a learning opportunity
- Develop cross-functional collaboration (P, D & E)
- Use AI to free up time for strategic thinking
- Implement a value priority score for feature development
- Build products that extend growth and maturity phases
- Understand user problems through jobs-to-be-done framework
- Cultivate a growth mindset from early career stages
About the speaker
Saumya Bhatnagar
involve.ai, Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder
Member
About the host
Renee Niemi
Mighty Capital, Partner