Gyanda joins Carmen Palmer for this episode in our monthly series, In The Lead.

Gyanda Sachdeva is VP of Product Management at LinkedIn where she currently leads the Consumer Experience team. She has over 15 years of product experience across a wide variety of domains including advertising, subscriptions, marketplaces and payments.

In this episode Gyanda shares her insights into managing product teams through the transition to AI and the changing role of PM. She also shares her personal career journey and the challenges of growing from an APM through individual contributor, group manager, director and now VP.

In The Lead is a monthly series on Product Rising sharing thought provoking conversations with a wide range of industry leaders hosted by Carmen Palmer, CEO of Women In Product.

Leading the Transition to AI in Product

00:00 Meet Gyanda at LinkedIn

02:34 Career Journey to Product

05:01 Long Tenure Lessons

08:11 Unlearning as a Leader

11:02 AI Shift Moment

14:35 Experimentation Over Roadmaps

19:36 Full Stack Building Culture

22:50 Trust Guardrails and Agents

24:44 Associate Product Builder Program

25:48 Early Adopters Drive ROI

26:20 Mentorship and Product University

28:26 Leaders Get Everyone In

30:42 Scaling AI Enablement

34:13 Keeping Up With Velocity

37:27 Diversity Access and Role Models

40:25 Three Day AI Jumpstart

43:30 Product Launch Gone Wrong

46:26 Daily Tools and Language Barriers

48:12 Embrace the Skill Shift

📚Resources:

Statistics on job skills change by 2030: https://economicgraph.linkedin.com/research/work-change-report
A guide for new grads on job trends: https://news.linkedin.com/2026/Grads-Guide-2026

✨Where to find Gyanda:

On LinkedIn

💫 Where to find Carmen:

On LinkedIn

🙋🏻‍♀️Where to find Women in Product:

On LinkedIn
Website https://womenpm.org/
Join the Community https://womenpm.org/wip-community/