In this panel, you’ll hear from leaders who’ve built product ops from scratch, the early trade-offs they made, the pushback they faced, and the moments that made it click. Sometimes that meant setting direction in a fast-moving org; other times, it meant building credibility in a company that didn’t yet realise it needed an ops function at all. Key takeaways: → How to find your highest-leverage starting point (and avoid spreading too thin). → Tactics for earning credibility across product, engineering, and exec teams. → What it really takes to build a function that lasts beyond the first few wins. They’ll share how they scoped their remit, picked their first battles, and proved value before the window closed.