Nikhil MalhotraChief Product Officer

Sheet 03 · Areas of practice

Where I bring product strategy to bear.

The domains in which I have carried accountability, and the judgement I bring to each.

  1. 01Product strategy
  2. 02Customer discovery
  3. 03Portfolio prioritisation
  4. 04Product operating models

How I lead

Product leadership is a discipline of choosing. I connect customer evidence with commercial judgement and technical possibility, so teams understand why an investment matters and what would cause us to change direction.

At scale

The responsibility, in figures

12 M

Active customers

Across four product lines

+46

Net Promoter Score gain

After a discovery-led redesign

3

Products to $100 M ARR

From zero, in five years

70%

Roadmap retired

To focus on what customers valued

In practice

Decisions and their consequences

Case 01

Product portfolio focus

The product portfolio had become a collection of commitments without a shared view of customer value. I worked with commercial and engineering leaders to identify the problems each initiative addressed, the evidence behind them and the capacity required. We reduced competing priorities and gave each remaining investment an explicit learning objective.

Case 02

Customer discovery

A proposed feature had strong internal support but an unclear user problem. We ran a focused discovery programme with customers, observed the work surrounding the request and tested a smaller proposition. The findings changed both the product scope and the way the team described the value to customers.

Case 03

Product adoption

A launch met its delivery milestone but required a clearer path to adoption. I brought product, customer success and sales into a common review of onboarding friction, usage signals and customer expectations. Product decisions were then informed by the whole customer journey rather than release completion alone.