Tamar Yehoshua
Chief Product and AI Officer at Atlassian; previously President of Product and Technology at Glean, Chief Product Officer at Slack, and a VP leading product and engineering for Google Search.
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startupsdesignproduct managementhiring
Their wordsAnd the AI builder job is real. There are startups that are not hiring PMs or not hiring designers. They are hiring builders.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 1st of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsAs we said, the roles are overlapping, but they are also expanding.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 2nd of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsSo the job of a PM is really the same as it always was. What is your job? It's to find product market fit. It's to build products that people love.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 3rd of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsAnd the answer is you don't. So, I don't think anybody could. But the tip is that everything that you read on X, don't believe. You have to figure out what's actually working for your customers.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 4th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsWell the PM used to be the person taking notes in meetings, following up on action items, communicating with go to market when things are going to launch. They don't have to do that anymore. We have tools that can do that.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 5th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsSo we've done a bunch of experiments. We've organized teams in different ways, measured outputs, and the answer that we have come to is it depends. It depends what type of product it is. It depends on what phase in the product it is.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 6th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsI hope most of you are not writing weekly reports by hand anymore. And if you are, you probably don't want to admit it, but please go and write build an agent to do it.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 7th of 13 in this recording
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The right environment for prototyping is key to getting a prototype into engineers' hands faster.
Their wordsSo having the right environment for prototyping is key of getting it faster into the engineers hands.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 8th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsAnd all of this works if all the AI tools understand the context of your organization.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 9th of 13 in this recording
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startupsproduct managementhiring
Their wordsWhen I talk to people at startups, they tell me hire people that are AI native. Well, we have a lot of PMs already who are amazing PMs at Atlassian. So, we want them to become AI native.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 10th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsAnd this is not a ladder. This is for development. So that you have a northstar on the skills that you need to be developing because of course this changes all the time. The ladder is about outcomes and what you produce for your customer.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 11th of 13 in this recording
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Probably nobody has yet figured out how to measure the outcomes of AI-assisted product work.
Their wordsI'll be honest, we haven't figured it out. I don't think anyone has figured it out.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 12th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsI think this is the best time in the world to be a PM. I think it's super exciting. I am an optimist and I think we'll all be here 10 years from now.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 13th of 13 in this recording
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