What Geoff Charles thinks about product management

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Chief Product Officer at Ramp; Ramp's first product hire, promoted from VP of Product to CPO in January 2025.

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1. 10 Sept 2026

   Our readingProduct managers are not ambitious while they focus on small things, and should automate their way out of those small loops.

   Their wordsYou're not ambitious because you're focusing on small things. You need to automate your way out of these small loops.

   ↗What product looks like when coding is solved | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 8th of 13 in this recording

3. 10 Sept 2026

   Our readingProduct organizations are probably not investing nearly enough in technical product managers who build the internal factory.

   investing

   Their wordsThe first track is the technical track and something that I don't think we are investing nearly enough. It's the PM that's building the actual factory,

   ↗What product looks like when coding is solved | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 10th of 13 in this recording

5. 10 Sept 2026

   Our readingProduct managers will probably expand into general managers who own the business outcome across marketing, sales, growth and operations.

   Their wordsI think PMs will absolutely evolve and expand their role to not just the product organization, but the marketing organization, the sales organization, the growth organizations, the operational organizations. PMs will become GMs and they will own the actual business outcome and lead the entire function.

   ↗What product looks like when coding is solved | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 12th of 13 in this recording