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RC
Johnson
Director of AI Labs
Bumble
RC is a transformative Senior Engineering and Product Leader with over 20 years in the tech industry, specializing in creating high-impact, autonomous engineering teams. He focuses on aligning technical vision with business value, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue and the launch of billion-dollar new lines of business. RC is known for his operational innovations, including pioneering an internal venture capital system at Indeed.com that rapidly launched a dozen successful new products. Earlier, he led the build of the first true SaaS application at Bazaarvoice, growing its revenue 20-fold.
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24 February 2025 09:30 - 10:00
Designing Product Teams for an AI-First Organization
AI is forcing a fundamental rethink of how product teams—and the organizations around them—are designed. As AI systems take on more of the procedural and coordination-heavy work, traditional boundaries between product, design, engineering, operations, marketing, and go-to-market functions are beginning to shift. The result isn’t a single blended role, but teams that operate with greater shared context, fewer handoffs, and faster decision-making. This talk takes a “show, not tell” approach, using live, end-to-end walkthroughs to demonstrate how work moves through an AI-first product team—from discovery and decision-making to delivery, launch, and learning. You’ll see how AI supports coordination across disciplines while preserving deep expertise within each function. For product leaders, the challenge is no longer optimizing individual roles in isolation, but designing teams that can align intent, surface tradeoffs early, and act with clarity across functions. You’ll leave with concrete principles for structuring AI-ready teams, understanding where responsibilities converge (and where they shouldn’t), and leading through this evolution without sacrificing accountability, craft, or focus.