Summary
In episode 105 of the Product Coalition Podcast, host Jay Stansell talks with Saurabh Sharma, chief product officer at You.com, about what changes for product teams when enterprise AI users start building their own workflows. Sharma draws on his background in product management, including time at Google, to discuss how a team that builds AI infrastructure thinks about its roadmap, its users, and its own tools.
The conversation covers building primitives instead of one-off features, how to tell when a feature has outgrown its usefulness, why teams should use their own products, and how product managers should think about managing agents. They also touch on research discipline, how product management skills are changing in the AI era, user experience for API products, and the gap between a prototype and production.
Key topics
- How user-built workflows affect product teams
- Building and managing primitives in AI platforms
- Measuring success with primitives versus features
- Evolving product roadmaps based on user signals
- Agent management and enterprise AI adoption
Episode chapters
- 00:10 Meet Saurabh Sharma: a journey through product management
- 02:39 Understanding You.com: AI web search infrastructure
- 05:02 Shifting from consumer to infrastructure product management
- 08:20 Defining primitives in product management
- 11:23 Recognizing when features outgrow their relevance
- 12:47 The importance of using your own product
- 15:45 Agent management in the age of AI
- 19:14 Research discipline in product management
- 21:03 Evolving product management skills in the AI era
- 23:25 User experience in API products
- 25:33 Challenges in moving from prototype to production
- 27:31 A memorable product management war story
Listen to the episode
EP105: What happens when your users become the builders? with Saurabh Sharma (You.com) and Jay Stansell, published June 26, 2026 on the Product Coalition Podcast.
