Tomer Cohen
Tomer Cohen is the longtime chief product officer at LinkedIn, where he’s pioneering the Full Stack Builder program, a radical new approach to product development that fully embraces what AI makes possible. Under his leadership, LinkedIn has scrapped its traditional Associate Product Manager program and replaced it with an Associate Product Builder program that teaches coding, design, and PM skills together. He’s also introduced a formal “Full Stack Builder” title and career ladder, enabling anyone from any function to take products from idea to launch.
Operating Cadence & Communication Skills
Product reviews should be rigorous deep-dives into specific problems and principled opinions, rather than high-level status updates.
"I push a lot for what is actually your opinion, what is your potentially controversial opinion and the best principles have teeth. So saying that we should build a simple product for me is useless. Wh..."
Overlay: Building AI Products Skills
Shifting to an AI-first mindset requires returning to first-principles problem solving rather than finding ways to shoehorn new technology into existing features.
"So it wasn't like, 'Oh, we have this cool technology, what can we do with it?' It was like, 'Let go of what you've built. Go back to the objectives you were trying to solve and now with this technolog..."
Planning & Prioritization Skills
Setting a visionary "peak" goal inspires teams more effectively than setting safe, incremental targets based on existing data.
"And when I'm trying to visualize this, I see a mountain, you see the peak and the peak exactly how it looks like, you see base camp, you know how to start and maybe the middle of the mountain is kind..."