Developing the modern builder framework and managing the cross-pollination of roles at scale w/ Pratima Arora #274

Podcast: The Engineering Leadership Podcast · The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)

Opublikowano: 2026-10-27

In this episode, Pratima Arora, Chief Product and Technology Officer @ Smartsheet, dives into what it means to be a modern builder as product, design, and engineering roles converge into today’s post-AI world. She and Jerry discuss why the modern builder model is disrupting traditional engineering processes / responsibilities as individuals embrace a breadth of skills while maintaining individual expertise. They cover how to encourage “cross-pollination” of roles, maintaining product quality while improving iteration speed, facilitating bottom-up contributions, creating context / knowledge graphs to inform agents, examples of good product builders, and what this means for hiring. ABOUT P...