LinkedIn now has over 1.3 billion registered users worldwide. Yet for product managers, the platform's real value is not the job listings or the network requests. It is thought leadership. If you are a SaaS founder, aspiring PM, or a product executive looking to sharpen your edge, this list is for you. These are the best product leaders to follow on LinkedIn in 2026.
Twitter has its charms. You will catch a CEO sharing a thread on product strategy, then scroll three posts down to find a meme about their morning coffee. Facebook is not even in the conversation. LinkedIn, on the other hand, has carved out a lane that serves product professionals. The signal-to-noise ratio is better here.
Aside from connecting with other PMs, thought leaders on LinkedIn publish original content, share frameworks, and openly discuss what works and what does not in product development. For PMs and founders, that kind of transparency is rare and valuable. The comments on LinkedIn posts often hold as much insight as the posts themselves.
The product community on LinkedIn is one of the most active professional communities on the platform. Product School, Product Hunt, and other key players in the product space all maintain strong presences there. If you are serious about product management, your LinkedIn feed should reflect that.
Here are product experts you should connect with on LinkedIn if you want to grow in your professional journey:
Jeetu Patel serves as President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, leading global product vision and strategy. He brings over 20 years of experience leading product teams in enterprise software. Before Cisco, he held leadership roles at Box as both Chief Product Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, and as General Manager of EMC's Syncplicity Business Unit. He also sits on the boards of JLL and Equinix.
Jeetu is vocal about the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. His LinkedIn content tends to be direct and rooted in real enterprise challenges. If AI-era security and collaboration tools are relevant to your product vision, he is a must-follow. His work at Cisco makes him one of the more credible voices on enterprise products in 2026.
Aakash Gupta spent a decade in product and growth before making the shift to full-time content creation and coaching. His career spans Google, Affirm, Epic Games, Apollo.io, and thredUP, where he led growth from Series C through Series E. At Affirm, he helped grow revenue from $300M to $1.2B per year. At Apollo.io, he was part of the team that scaled the company from a $750M to a $2.5B valuation.
Today, he runs two newsletters, Product Growth and AI by Aakash, with a combined subscriber base of over 460,000, and hosts The Growth Podcast with more than 150 episodes. He also runs a PM coaching programme that has sold out multiple cohorts. On LinkedIn, where he has over 250,000 followers, he posts consistently on product management, AI, and career growth. If you are trying to sharpen your product thinking or land your next PM role, Aakash is one of the most useful follows you don't want to miss on the platform right now.
Karen Ng is the Senior Vice President of Product at HubSpot, where she oversees Smart CRM, Operations Hub, and the Connected Ecosystem. Before HubSpot, she led product and data at Common Room, building the PM and machine learning teams from scratch. Her tenure at Google saw her lead Android Jetpack and Jetpack Compose. She also contributed to developer tools at Microsoft.
Karen is a Product 50 Winner and holds multiple patents. Her work is a good reference point for anyone building platforms that connect multiple product surfaces. On LinkedIn, she is candid about AI agents and what they mean for go-to-market teams. Products at HubSpot under her leadership have become a benchmark for smart CRM innovation.
Marty Cagan is the closest thing the product world has to a founding philosopher. Before starting the Silicon Valley Product Group, he held executive product roles at eBay, Netscape, HP, and a handful of startups. He is the author of Inspired, Empowered, and Transformed. These are three books that have reshaped how product teams at companies of all sizes think about their work.
On LinkedIn, Marty is direct and consistent. He writes about the product operating model, the difference between product managers and product leaders, and why so many companies are still building products the wrong way. His posts are not long, but they land. If you want to understand the philosophical foundation that most serious product practitioners build on, Marty Cagan is the place to start
Daniel Danker has a track record most product executives would envy. He launched Facebook Live and Facebook Watch as Product Director for Video at Facebook, integrated music into Facebook and Instagram, and redefined Shazam as its CPO. He later led products at Uber Eats before joining Instacart as Chief Product Officer. In 2025, Walmart recruited him to lead global AI acceleration, product, and design, reporting directly to CEO Doug McMillon.
Daniel brings a rare combination of consumer product depth and platform-level thinking. His talk at ProductCon SF 2023 on AI and Instacart's shopping revolution drew wide attention. On LinkedIn, he shares insights on product innovation that go well beyond any single industry. Follow him if you want a front-row seat to how AI is reshaping commerce at the world's largest retailer.
Jaime DeLanghe joined Slack in 2017 as a Product Lead and has grown into one of the company's most influential product voices. She has overseen consumer growth and AI-powered product innovations at Slack. Before that, she spent seven years at Etsy, rising from Trust and Safety to Director of Product Management.
Her LinkedIn content leans into practical product leadership without the jargon overload you often see from executives at her level. She speaks candidly about what it takes to lead product teams through ambiguity. Aspiring product managers will find her posts inspiring and educational.
Cem Kansu is Chief Product Officer at Duolingo, leading product management, user research, and product operations. He played a central role in building Duolingo's freemium business model, scaling revenue from zero to over $700 million annually. He also launched Super Duolingo, which now drives the bulk of the company's revenue.
The product approach at Duolingo is widely studied for its use of gamification and experimentation. Cem's LinkedIn presence reflects that same rigor. He shares content on hypergrowth, user engagement, and product discovery in ways that feel practical, not performative. His experience leading product at one of the world's most recognizable apps makes him a standout person to follow.
Ajay Arora oversees product, commerce, and experimentation for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. Before Disney, he was Director of Product Innovation at Netflix, working on payment options, product bundles, and tiers for emerging markets. He also led the Audible mobile experience at Amazon.
Ajay teaches a course at Stanford on building and scaling subscription businesses. He serves as a Product Advisor at Product School. His LinkedIn content often covers product monetization, subscription economics, and scaling across global markets. Few people have led product development across Netflix, Amazon, and Disney. That alone earns him a spot on this list.
Mamuna Oladipo is the former VP of Product at Shopify and one of the more refreshing voices in the product space. Her career spans SVP of Product at Kickstarter, VP of Product at SeamlessDocs, and VP of Product Marketing and Design at Sony Music Entertainment.
She is a board advisor at Black Professionals in Tech (BPTN) Inc. and a former Product School instructor. Mamuna describes herself as 'sunshine mixed with a little hurricane,' which is about as accurate a self-description as you will find from a product executive. Her LinkedIn content blends product strategy with honest reflections on leadership, diversity, and building inclusive product teams.
Pawel Huryn spent over 15 years in product, rising to CPO, before shifting his focus to helping PMs level up through writing and coaching. He runs The Product Compass, a newsletter he describes as the number one AI and PM resource on the internet, and his LinkedIn is an extension of that same mission. He has been ranked the number one PM on LinkedIn by Favikon.
His posts break down complex product concepts into clean, visual frameworks that are easy to apply immediately. If you are an aspiring PM or a mid-level professional trying to build sharper product instincts, you need to get Pawel on your list.
Sneha Rao leads the product vision and execution for The New York Times' delivery platform. Her work walks through journalism, subscriptions, advertising, and standalone products like NYT Games, Cooking, and Wirecutter. She previously held leadership roles at Spotify and Comcast NBCUniversal.
Sneha spoke at ProductCon New York 2024 and has been a guest on The Product Podcast. Her content on LinkedIn covers developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, and digital transformation inside large media enterprises. If you are building platform products or navigating legacy-to-digital transitions, she shares insights worth following.
John Cutler has one of the most distinctive voices in product. He spent years as a product evangelist at Amplitude and now leads product at Dotwork. He has also contributed thinking to teams at Optimizely, AppFolio, and a string of other companies. His writing does not follow the standard PM playbook, which is exactly what makes it worth reading.
On LinkedIn, John posts observations that challenge assumptions most product teams have accepted as truth around product roadmaps, org design, output vs. outcome, and how context shapes product decisions in ways most frameworks ignore. If your thinking on product has started to feel a little too tidy, John Cutler will productively complicate it.
Vrushali Paunikar is CPO at Carta, where she leads product development for over 30,000 customers in the venture and startup ecosystem. She scaled Carta's valuation business, grew the Venture Capital division from zero to over $80 million in ARR, and helped build the fund administration platform that now manages over $100 billion in assets under administration.
At ProductCon San Francisco 2024, she shared the lessons from taking Carta from a startup to a market leader in private capital. Her LinkedIn content tends to focus on product vision, capital allocation, and building products in highly regulated, complex markets. All the reasons above, and more, are what make her stand out.
No list of product leaders to follow on LinkedIn is complete without Melissa Perri. She is the author of Escaping the Build Trap, one of the most referenced books in product management. She advises product teams, teaches at Harvard Business School, and hosts the Product Thinking podcast.
Melissa is refreshingly direct on LinkedIn. She does not dress up hard truths about product leadership. Her content covers product operations, product strategy, org design, and the common traps product teams fall into. This is why aspiring product managers and senior executives follow her.
Shreyas Doshi spent years leading products at Twitter, Stripe, Google, and Yahoo before stepping back to focus on writing, advising, and teaching. He is one of the most active and analytical voices in product management on LinkedIn.
His posts on product leadership frameworks, PM career growth, and the hidden dynamics of product teams consistently generate thousands of comments on LinkedIn. His threads on topics like LNO (Leverage, Neutral, Overhead) productivity and the difference between output and outcome have become widely referenced across the product community. Follow him if you want your thinking stretched.
Lenny Rachitsky is a former product lead at Airbnb who turned his weekly newsletter into one of the most widely read resources for product managers looking to level up. Lenny's Newsletter covers product strategy, growth, and career advice with the kind of depth you rarely find for free.
On LinkedIn, Lenny shares highlights from his newsletter and podcast, along with original observations on the product space. He regularly interviews the best product leaders in the industry, making his podcast a natural companion to your LinkedIn feed. If you are serious about product management, Lenny is not optional.
Gibson Biddle led the product team at Netflix during one of the most important periods in streaming history. He later became VP of Product at Chegg. Today, he writes, speaks, and teaches on product strategy and leadership.
Gibson is generous with what he shares on LinkedIn. His posts on product strategy, product vision, and what it actually takes to build a great product team are rooted in real experience at scale. His DHM framework (Delight customers, Hard to copy, Margin-enhancing) has influenced how many product teams think about strategy. He is one of the more thoughtful voices in the product community.
Teresa Torres wrote Continuous Discovery Habits, which has become a go-to reference for product teams trying to build better discovery practices. She coaches product teams across industries and is widely regarded as one of the clearest thinkers on product discovery.
Her LinkedIn content mirrors her book. That makes her posts evidence-based and focused on helping product teams connect with customers regularly. She challenges some of the common assumptions product managers hold about how discovery should work. Follow her if you want to build better habits around understanding your users.
Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia founded Product School, one of the most widely recognized educational platforms in product management. Product School has trained thousands of PMs globally and runs ProductCon, one of the biggest product conferences in the world.
On LinkedIn, Carlos hosts conversations with industry leaders, shares product management frameworks, and actively connects aspiring product managers with job opportunities. His feed is a resource for product professionals at every stage. Getting a front-row seat to his interviews with chief product officers and product executives is reason enough to hit follow.
Adrienne Tan is the CEO of Brainmates, a company that helps product managers and teams build better products and grow into stronger product leaders. She works with companies to turn ideas into real products and helps product people improve how they think and work.
On LinkedIn, Adrienne shares simple and practical lessons from her experience in product management. One of her most popular posts is her “word of the week,” where she explains product ideas using everyday words and connects them to real work situations. If you want clear product insights, she is a good person to follow.
Following the right people is the easy part. The harder part is making your LinkedIn feed work for you. Here are a few practical tips:
Always keep in mind that the best product leaders do not just share insights for the sake of likes. They publish because they believe in advancing the craft. Your job is to show up, pay attention, and put what you learn to use.
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