#66: Next Events, Join our Community Team & Launching pilot for Leaders Circles
PM news, expert insights, Community and Conference updates, open roles, and events to help you grow your career and network.
🚀 Leaders Circles, join the pilot
This week has been all about stepping back and thinking bigger. We’re exploring a pilot Leaders Circles for Group and Principal PMs at 500+ person organizations, working with our coach
— a space where senior product leaders can work through the messy, real challenges that don’t fit into standard playbooks.First Joiners are from Zalando & Miro 💛
Check it out
We’re also asking ourselves: what could a Berlin-based conference look like? Something that celebrates our vibrant tech community while attracting top product leaders from across DACH and the EU who want real conversations, not vendor pitches.
💚 Join us in making this happen
Growing ProductLab means growing our community organizer team. We’re looking for people who genuinely enjoy bringing product builders together and want to help us evolve from intimate dinners to a 500-person conference full of new ideas.
DM Daniele on LinkedIn if you’re interested in:
📸 Photography (once a month at events)
🎯 Event organizing (help throughout the year, lead one or two yourself)
🎫 HeyJobs event on the 25th November
Becoming an AI-Native PM: How to Build, Lead, and Stand Out
✨ December Special
🍺 Lenny’s Event
Join us for an informal evening!
📅 Friday, 5th December
📍 Mitte
🎫 Join Us
🎉 Year-End Community Event: ToolTime - Shaping FinTech Products
Let’s wrap up 2025 together!
📅 December 11th
📍 Friedrichshain, Berlin
🎫 Get your Ticket
🎤 Conference Recap & More to come!
Escaping the Paid Growth Trap: How Product-Led Growth Beats Paid Ads 10:1
The bottom line: Most companies burn money on paid ads while their competitors grow organically at 10x lower cost. The secret isn’t more budget—it’s building products people want to share.
AI agents are coming for your business model
When Dr. Hayder Schneider asked the 250+ product managers at ProductLab Conference Berlin whether AI would be the biggest opportunity or the biggest bubble of our time, the room split down the middle.
📰 Product Leaders’ Wisdom
Brought to you weekly by Leila Montazeri
Marty Cagan, in his Product Creator series, reminds us that prototypes are meant for learning, not earning. As GenAI tools blur the line between discovery and delivery, Cagan warns product managers not to mistake high-fidelity prototypes for real, scalable products. Understanding this difference is key to building reliable, commercial-grade solutions.
Trevin Chow, CPO at Big Cartel, shares how the 20 year old ecommerce platform balances legacy with innovation. In this episode, he discusses designing “simple magic” ; delighting users through simplicity over customization, and how AI is revolutionizing product and design workflows by shrinking the gap between idea and execution.
From LaunchPod by LogRocket Listen to the episode
Rich Holmes from Department of Product reports that Google’s Deep Research now integrates with Google Drive, letting product teams blend internal docs with real-time web data to craft stronger product strategies. Plus: Perplexity and Amazon clash in the AI agent wars, YouTube restructures its product org, and a new library of AI-powered prompts helps PMs with pricing and feature analysis. From Department of Product
💪 Open Roles
Brought to you weekly by Alessia Marchi
🎶 Song of the Newsletter
From our DJ Marco D’Avila