What Ron Goldin thinks about product management
Design leader who has led design at Google, Shopify and Uber Eats, and co-founded the brand-partnerships product MTCHMKR.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ron Goldin has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsall the usual exercises still help of like really clearly defining like what is the goal of this product? Who is it for? What are the critical user journeys that this product is supposed to handle
↗Ron Goldin - Building your ideas as a design leaderyoutube.com 8th of 19 in this recording
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Their wordsyou can't just be execution. You can't just be order takers. Not that I think designers ever should be, but like that is no longer valuable because a product manager can doesn't need you anymore to do that
↗Ron Goldin - Building your ideas as a design leaderyoutube.com 14th of 19 in this recording