The Engineering Leadership Podcast
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The Engineering Leadership Podcast

by The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)

We share the most critical perspectives, habits & examples of great software engineering leaders to help evolve leadership in the tech industry.
Join our community of software engineering leaders @ www.sfelc.com!

102 episodes
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1
Changes in engineering management craft, career growth and all hands demos for inspiration and context w/ Lindsey Simon #252
45:25 Mar 24, 2026
2
Career growth for engineering leaders in the AI era: Building your thesis, the “running framework” & developing technical depth w/ Chris Chiu #251
43:51 Mar 19, 2026
3
How OpenAI’s engineering org is reshaping teams, roles and workflows w/ Sulman Choudhry #250
43:43 Mar 10, 2026
4
The innovation engine behind Samsara driving real-world impact: compounding feedback loops, data flywheels and embedding engineers in customer problems w/ Kiren Sekar #249
43:34 Feb 17, 2026
5
Why founders should invest in coaching, communication & leadership mechanisms before you scale w/ James Birchler #248
50:46 Feb 10, 2026
6
Cultivating product thinking, cross-functional leadership & the future of AI agent infrastructure w/ Jaikumar Ganesh #247
49:43 Feb 5, 2026
7
Scaling from point solutions to a unified, AI-powered product ecosystem w/ Vineeta Puranik #246
36:51 Jan 27, 2026
8
From localized to systematic speed: How Spotify deploys AI in prototyping, strategy & maintenance w/ Tyson Singer #245
44:28 Jan 21, 2026
9
Inside ELC’s 1st Hackathon: Deconstructing the operational playbook, implementation lessons & future of the program w/ James Tyack #244
32:39 Jan 13, 2026
10
What is leadership in the AI Era? w/ Bill Coughran & Bret Reckard #243
20:32 Jan 6, 2026
11
From Research Lab to Record-Breaking Product: How OpenAI Engineered for Unprecedented Scale w/ Sulman Choudhry, Samir Ahmed & Lawrence Bruhmeller #242
25:28 Dec 30, 2025
12
The AI Distribution Shift, Navigating PMF Collapse & Building AI-Native EPD Systems w/ Brian Balfour #241
46:04 Dec 23, 2025
13
How Atlassian built Rovo in 6 months: systematizing developer joy, autonomy/ownership, productivity champions & reducing ship time w/ Rajeev Rajan #240
46:37 Dec 17, 2025
14
From developer to builder/system designer, managing AI agents like team members & monday.com’s evolving R&D playbook w/ Daniel Lereya #239
47:39 Dec 9, 2025
15
Beyond Replication: Building Non-Human Intelligence Through Physical AI w/ Jaime Lien & Rashi Agrawal #238
24:19 Dec 4, 2025
16
Specs as the new source of truth, synthetic data as the next wave of defensibility, product vision & decision making frameworks w/ Ruslan Belkin #237
51:54 Nov 20, 2025
17
Brex 3.0: An 18-Month Operational Evolution & the Brex Hacker House “AI Startup within a Startup" experiment w/ James Reggio #236
45:30 Nov 12, 2025
18
The Impossible Job of Managers, Leadership Co-Pilots, Scaling Great Management & Augmenting Human Relationships w/ Jonathan Raymond #235
52:09 Nov 5, 2025
19
A Systems-Level Guide to High-ROI AI Impact w/ Laura Tacho #234
44:23 Oct 29, 2025
20
Platform Engineering's Shift from Tactical 'How' to Strategic Curator & Natural Language as the New Interface Paradigm w/ Miriam Aguirre #233
44:20 Oct 21, 2025
21
Grit, the vision bottleneck & building for a future where today’s technical constraints may disappear w/ Chrystal Henke Ball #232
49:27 Oct 15, 2025
22
Leading across technical domains, strategic deep-dives & applying your skills in new industries w/ Simone Kalmakis #231
43:17 Sep 9, 2025
23
How Box Builds AI Agents, Redefines Technical Vision, and Balances Speed with Security w/ Ben Kus #230
46:14 Aug 26, 2025
24
Rewriting the Engineering Leadership Playbook: An ELC Annual 2025 Preview #229
23:09 Aug 19, 2025
25
The End-to-End Engineer: How WorkOS Collapsed the Talent Stack for High-Velocity Execution, Ownership & Better Product Decisions w/ Michael Grinich
44:55 Aug 5, 2025
26
Influencing without authority: What every engineering leader can learn from security w/ Srinath Kuruvadi #227
37:02 Jul 22, 2025
27
Vision-first leadership & reimagining product w/ “Shift Out,” Do-It-as-a-Service & Jobs-to-Be-Done w/ John Amaral #226
44:54 Jul 8, 2025
28
Quick Summer Break! Join us @ ELC Annual 2025 (Early Bird Tickets End Soon)
2:46 Jul 1, 2025
29
Scaling decision-making, designing eng orgs for speed & scope as underrated leverage w/ Dhruv Parthasarathy #225
37:42 Jun 25, 2025
30
The evolving velocity playbook, building product taste & exceptional product experiences in the AI era w/ Loïc Houssier #224
46:17 Jun 17, 2025
31
Rapid Prototyping, Lightning Pods & the End of PRDs: Redefining product development & EPD in the age of AI w/ Nissim Lehyani #223
38:45 Jun 10, 2025
32
No New Episode - But We Launched Something New... Introducing the ELC Forum!
1:33 Jun 3, 2025
33
From architect to AI exec: Scaling leadership, maintaining credibility & effective communication to non-technical execs w/ Prashant Ramarao #222
43:37 May 27, 2025
34
The Startup Epoch: Rethinking Company Building & Defensibility in an AI World w/ Craig McLuckie #221
42:38 May 20, 2025
35
AMD’s unified hardware + software strategy & building an open-source AI ecosystem w/ Anush Elangovan #220
36:55 May 13, 2025
36
Lessons Leading EPD: Mindset, decision-making, 80/20 product strategy & pivoting for leverage/speed w/ Farnaz Azmoodeh #219
43:12 May 6, 2025
37
Empowering Teams & Cultivating True Ownership in Engineering Orgs w/ Wade Chambers #218
44:55 Apr 29, 2025
38
Building partnerships w/ complex stakeholders, aligning tech debt w/ business value & decisive vs. thoughtful decision-making #217
49:24 Apr 22, 2025
39
Recalibrating leadership priorities, leveraging your time & empowering senior leaders w/ Vinod Marur #216
40:19 Apr 15, 2025
40
From early days to IPO: Scaling leadership, enterprise growth, product ownership, & outgrowing your failure modes w/ Jon Hyman #215
57:14 Apr 8, 2025
41
Essential questions & leadership principles to navigate change, fear & uncertainty w/ Rukmini Reddy #214
45:38 Apr 1, 2025
42
Building platforms, ecosystems & open-source communities: Lessons from Viam & MongoDB w/ Eliot Horowitz @ Viam #213
42:54 Mar 25, 2025
43
Leading transformation, inspiring vision & empowering teams to operate autonomously w/ Kevin Stewart #212
47:33 Mar 18, 2025
44
Accelerating & upskilling your AI learning journey w/ Maher Hanafi #211
46:44 Mar 11, 2025
45
Data governance, adversarial testing & more - Essential strategies to scale AI responsibly in a shifting regulatory environment w/ Jim Palmer #210
48:58 Mar 4, 2025
46
Capturing & synthesizing unbiased insights from users, your open source community & yourself w/ James Campbell #209
43:59 Feb 25, 2025
47
Upskilling: practices to improve hiring, storytelling & structuring personal/leadership problems with engineering principles #208
43:39 Feb 18, 2025
48
GTM Insights from Top DevTool companies w/ David Mytton #207
51:20 Feb 11, 2025
49
Navigating Rapid Change: Skills to Cultivate Resilience, Adaptability & Creativity in Engineering Teams w/ Melody Meckfessel #206
41:17 Feb 4, 2025
50
Building Trust: Strategic humor, bridging communication gaps & enabling your team to do more #205
36:36 Jan 28, 2025
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