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A guide to the best B2B podcast coverage of engineering leadership - the shows and 104 episodes that go deepest, ranked by substance, not downloads.

Best shows on engineering leadership

Best episodes on engineering leadership

  1. Utilizing AI internally to iterate faster and empower smaller teams to upskill w/ Vivek Raghunathan #263

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-07-07

    96 / 100

    …Hello and welcome to the Engineering Leadership Podcast brought to you by elc, the Engineering Leadership Community.…

  2. Applying Agentic AI to the Supply Chain, Building Systems to Withstand Chaos, and Leveraging your Curiosity w/ Pooja Brown @ Inventry.ai

    Engineering Founders · 2026-05-07

    87 / 100

    …A huge thank you to all of our local leaders who make community happen and thank you for listening to the Engineering Leadership Podcast.…

  3. The Product Paradigm Shift: How Livekit Navigated High Stakes Scaling Challenges to Build the Future of Voice-First AI Interfaces w/ Russ d’Sa #262

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-06-23

    76 / 100

    …peaker B: Hello and welcome to the Engineering Leadership Podcast brought to you by elc, the Engineering Leadership Community.…

  4. Determining when to leave to start your own company, making strategic bets, and selling to enterprise customers w/ Anhang Zhu @ TierZero

    Engineering Founders · 2026-06-18

    76 / 100

  5. Redefining profit, centering human flourishing, and building an incorruptible mission-driven roadmap w/ Eric Ries #260

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-05-26

    75 / 100

    …peaker B: Hello and welcome to the Engineering Leadership Podcast, brought to you by elc, the Engineering Leadership Community.…

  6. Determining bets, using customer insights to pivot, and gaining developer buy in & trust w/ Tomas Reimers @ Graphite

    Engineering Founders · 2026-05-21

    75 / 100

    …A huge thank you to all of our local leaders who make community happen and thank you for listening to the Engineering Leadership Podcast.…

  7. How to know when your company needs to pivot and the signals/principles that will help guide you through pivoting w/ Pete Nichols, Lizzie Matusov, and Tony Dong

    Engineering Founders · 2026-06-04

    71 / 100

    …So for context, you know, um, a person emailed me like two weeks ago and was like, do you know Lizzie? Like, I follow her Ardell newsletter and it like, helps me shape about how I think about engineering leadership.…

  8. Building an empowered career w/ Jean Hsu & Cate Huston #261

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-06-10

    63 / 100

    …peaker B: Hello and welcome to the Engineering Leadership Podcast brought to you by elc, the Engineering Leadership Community.…

  9. Affirm’s AI-native transformation & how it’s driving operational excellence w/ Geddes Munson #259

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-05-19

  10. Building reliable and proactive agentic systems at scale: how Shopify’s reflexive AI culture was instrumental in their development of Sidekick w/ Andrew McNamara #258

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-05-12

  11. How the R&D Org at Twilio Drives Business Strategy and Transformation w/ Inbal Shani #257

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-05-05

  12. Scaling TensorFlow, Navigating Startup Pivots, ML Edge Infrastructure and AI Inference Strategy w/ Rajat Monga #256

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-04-28

  13. How Enterprises Actually Win with AI: Operationalizing Responsible AI, Engineering Guardrails, Trust Controls, and Systems Thinking at Scale w/ Murali Swaminathan #255

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-04-21

  14. Shifting Eng Leaders to Think Like GMs, Building an AI-Driven Visionary Roadmap & Braze’s Product Health Initiative w/ Jon Hyman #254

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-04-07

  15. Leading effectively across company archetypes: product, business and design-led leadership w/ Sebastiano Armeli #253

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-03-31

  16. Changes in engineering management craft, career growth and all hands demos for inspiration and context w/ Lindsey Simon #252

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-03-24

  17. Career growth for engineering leaders in the AI era: Building your thesis, the “running framework” & developing technical depth w/ Chris Chiu #251

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-03-19

  18. Rapid Prototyping, Lightning Pods & the End of PRDs: Redefining product development & EPD in the age of AI w/ Nissim Lehyani #223

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-06-10

  19. From architect to AI exec: Scaling leadership, maintaining credibility & effective communication to non-technical execs w/ Prashant Ramarao #222

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-05-27

  20. The Startup Epoch: Rethinking Company Building & Defensibility in an AI World w/ Craig McLuckie #221

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-05-20

  21. AMD’s unified hardware + software strategy & building an open-source AI ecosystem w/ Anush Elangovan #220

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-05-13

  22. Lessons Leading EPD: Mindset, decision-making, 80/20 product strategy & pivoting for leverage/speed w/ Farnaz Azmoodeh #219

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-05-06

  23. Empowering Teams & Cultivating True Ownership in Engineering Orgs w/ Wade Chambers #218

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-04-29

  24. Building partnerships w/ complex stakeholders, aligning tech debt w/ business value & decisive vs. thoughtful decision-making #217

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-04-22

  25. Recalibrating leadership priorities, leveraging your time & empowering senior leaders w/ Vinod Marur #216

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-04-15

  26. From early days to IPO: Scaling leadership, enterprise growth, product ownership, & outgrowing your failure modes w/ Jon Hyman #215

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-04-08

  27. Essential questions & leadership principles to navigate change, fear & uncertainty w/ Rukmini Reddy #214

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-04-01

  28. Building platforms, ecosystems & open-source communities: Lessons from Viam & MongoDB w/ Eliot Horowitz @ Viam #213

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-03-25

  29. Leading transformation, inspiring vision & empowering teams to operate autonomously w/ Kevin Stewart #212

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-03-18

  30. Data governance, adversarial testing & more - Essential strategies to scale AI responsibly in a shifting regulatory environment w/ Jim Palmer #210

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-03-04

  31. Capturing & synthesizing unbiased insights from users, your open source community & yourself w/ James Campbell #209

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-02-25

  32. Upskilling: practices to improve hiring, storytelling & structuring personal/leadership problems with engineering principles #208

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-02-18

  33. GTM Insights from Top DevTool companies w/ David Mytton #207

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-02-11

  34. How OpenAI’s engineering org is reshaping teams, roles and workflows w/ Sulman Choudhry #250

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-03-10

  35. The innovation engine behind Samsara driving real-world impact: compounding feedback loops, data flywheels and embedding engineers in customer problems w/ Kiren Sekar #249

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-02-17

  36. Why founders should invest in coaching, communication & leadership mechanisms before you scale w/ James Birchler #248

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-02-10

  37. Cultivating product thinking, cross-functional leadership & the future of AI agent infrastructure w/ Jaikumar Ganesh #247

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-02-05

  38. Scaling from point solutions to a unified, AI-powered product ecosystem w/ Vineeta Puranik #246

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-01-27

  39. From localized to systematic speed: How Spotify deploys AI in prototyping, strategy & maintenance w/ Tyson Singer #245

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-01-21

  40. Inside ELC’s 1st Hackathon: Deconstructing the operational playbook, implementation lessons & future of the program w/ James Tyack #244

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-01-13

  41. What is leadership in the AI Era? w/ Bill Coughran & Bret Reckard #243

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2026-01-06

  42. From Research Lab to Record-Breaking Product: How OpenAI Engineered for Unprecedented Scale w/ Sulman Choudhry, Samir Ahmed & Lawrence Bruhmeller #242

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-12-30

  43. The AI Distribution Shift, Navigating PMF Collapse & Building AI-Native EPD Systems w/ Brian Balfour #241

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-12-23

  44. How Atlassian built Rovo in 6 months: systematizing developer joy, autonomy/ownership, productivity champions & reducing ship time w/ Rajeev Rajan #240

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-12-17

  45. From developer to builder/system designer, managing AI agents like team members & monday.com’s evolving R&D playbook w/ Daniel Lereya #239

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-12-09

  46. Beyond Replication: Building Non-Human Intelligence Through Physical AI w/ Jaime Lien & Rashi Agrawal #238

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-12-04

  47. Brex 3.0: An 18-Month Operational Evolution & the Brex Hacker House “AI Startup within a Startup" experiment w/ James Reggio #236

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-11-12

  48. The Impossible Job of Managers, Leadership Co-Pilots, Scaling Great Management & Augmenting Human Relationships w/ Jonathan Raymond #235

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-11-05

  49. A Systems-Level Guide to High-ROI AI Impact w/ Laura Tacho #234

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-10-29

  50. Platform Engineering's Shift from Tactical 'How' to Strategic Curator & Natural Language as the New Interface Paradigm w/ Miriam Aguirre #233

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-10-21

  51. Grit, the vision bottleneck & building for a future where today’s technical constraints may disappear w/ Chrystal Henke Ball #232

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-10-15

  52. Leading across technical domains, strategic deep-dives & applying your skills in new industries w/ Simone Kalmakis #231

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-09-09

  53. How Box Builds AI Agents, Redefines Technical Vision, and Balances Speed with Security w/ Ben Kus #230

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-08-26

  54. Rewriting the Engineering Leadership Playbook: An ELC Annual 2025 Preview #229

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-08-19

  55. The End-to-End Engineer: How WorkOS Collapsed the Talent Stack for High-Velocity Execution, Ownership & Better Product Decisions w/ Michael Grinich

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-08-05

  56. Influencing without authority: What every engineering leader can learn from security w/ Srinath Kuruvadi #227

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-07-22

  57. Vision-first leadership & reimagining product w/ “Shift Out,” Do-It-as-a-Service & Jobs-to-Be-Done w/ John Amaral #226

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-07-08

  58. Scaling decision-making, designing eng orgs for speed & scope as underrated leverage w/ Dhruv Parthasarathy #225

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-06-25

  59. The evolving velocity playbook, building product taste & exceptional product experiences in the AI era w/ Loïc Houssier #224

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-06-17

  60. Navigating Rapid Change: Skills to Cultivate Resilience, Adaptability & Creativity in Engineering Teams w/ Melody Meckfessel #206

    The Engineering Leadership Podcast · 2025-02-04

  61. The Product Paradigm Shift: How LiveKit Navigated High Stakes Scaling Challenges to Build the Future of Voice-First AI Interfaces w/ Russ d’Sa

    Engineering Founders · 2026-04-23

  62. Demo-led validation, charging from day 1, selling to AI-native companies, and finding resilient co-founders w/ Gil Feig @ Merge

    Engineering Founders · 2026-03-19

  63. Finding your customers’ burning needs, validating ideas, expanding products & navigating new markets w/ Ryo Chikazawa @ Autify

    Engineering Founders · 2026-01-15

  64. CEO as Experiment Officer, Design Partner Personas & Rebranding w/ Sha Ma @ Topogy

    Engineering Founders · 2025-12-11

  65. Why founders should invest in coaching, communication & leadership mechanisms before you scale w/ James Birchler

    Engineering Founders · 2025-08-14

  66. Balancing shifting priorities, leveraging your founder network, and navigating cost vs. value w/ Sumeet Vaidya @ Crafting

    Engineering Founders · 2025-07-31

  67. Early team building and pivoting to competitive advantage as a solo founder w/ Tony Dong @ Propel

    Engineering Founders · 2025-07-17

  68. Building insight engines, emotionally intelligent AI products & blending PLG / enterprise GTM w/ Aiswarya Sankar @ Entelligence.AI

    Engineering Founders · 2025-05-29

  69. The Startup Epoch: Rethinking Company Building & Defensibility in an AI World w/ Craig McLuckie @ Stacklok

    Engineering Founders · 2025-05-01

  70. Building platforms, ecosystems & open-source communities: Lessons from Viam & MongoDB w/ Eliot Horowitz @ Viam

    Engineering Founders · 2025-04-10

  71. From early days to IPO: Scaling leadership, enterprise growth, product ownership, & outgrowing your failure modes w/ Jon Hyman @ Braze

    Engineering Founders · 2025-03-13

  72. Shifting from founder-led sales to repeatable GTM, differentiating on responsiveness/customer support & the art vs. science of product building w/ Stephen Whitworth @ incident.io

    Engineering Founders · 2025-02-13

  73. Pricing is the API Between Your Business Model and Customers & Great Product Experiences are Made in the Margins w/ Michael Grinich @ WorkOS

    Engineering Founders · 2025-01-30

  74. GTM Insights from Top DevTool companies w/ David Mytton @ Arcjet & Console

    Engineering Founders · 2025-01-16

  75. Inspiring BIG ideas and deconstructing ambitious projects into smaller questions, core tech, and POCs w/ Ivan Poupyrev & Jamie Lien @ Archetype AI

    Engineering Founders · 2024-12-20

  76. De-risking the co-founder relationship & experiments to stress-test your partnership w/ Jake Schwartz @ Endorsed

    Engineering Founders · 2024-12-12

  77. Scaling costs & being enterprise ready from day 1 w/ Nancy Wang

    Engineering Founders · 2024-11-07

  78. Why you SHOULDN’T become a founder w/ Travis McPeak @ Resourcely

    Engineering Founders · 2024-10-24

  79. Leveraging distribution & community to accelerate your startup w/ Mariane Bekker @ Founders Bay

    Engineering Founders · 2024-06-13

  80. Building a mission-driven, bootstrapped business & transitioning from side-gig to full-time: w/ Darian Shimy @ FutureFund

    Engineering Founders · 2024-05-30

  81. Scaling yourself ‘down’ as an engineering leader w/ James Everingham @ Lightspark

    Engineering Founders · 2024-03-21

  82. Execution strategy, proof of concepts & intermediate value-creation steps at deep tech startups w/ Quinn Jacobson

    Engineering Founders · 2024-02-15

  83. Cold outreach & strategically expanding your business model into services w/ Jon Perl & Scott Wilson @ QA Wolf

    Engineering Founders · 2024-01-25

  84. Your eng background is your founder advantage w/ Jorge Torres @ MindsDB

    Engineering Founders · 2024-01-11

  85. Finding opportunity in areas w/ poor implementation, shaping tech innovation into products & creating fast time to value w/ Gaurav Oberoi @ Lexion.ai

    Engineering Founders · 2023-12-21

  86. Solving the right problems and competing on execution risk w/ Varun Mohan @ Codeium

    Engineering Founders · 2023-11-30

  87. Capturing & synthesizing unbiased insights from users, your open source community & yourself w/ James Campbell @ Great Expectations

    Engineering Founders · 2023-11-02

  88. Assessing emerging trends and why your product should go broad vs. narrow w/ Karan Talati @ First Resonance

    Engineering Founders · 2023-10-19

  89. Open-source to commercial product, repeatable sales models + making your 1st marketing hire w/ Ramiro Berrelleza

    Engineering Founders · 2023-10-05

  90. Overcoming product bias, embracing specificity, growing your user-base & developing extroverted qualities w/ Roni Dover

    Engineering Founders · 2023-09-22

  91. Early-day founding &  funding decisions, choosing ideas + using community tools to build a dev-tool company w/ Paul Dix

    Engineering Founders · 2023-08-28

  92. Becoming a better strategic contributor & business leader w/ Jessica McKellar

    Engineering Founders · 2023-08-17

  93. Company building in highly competitive industries w/ Rick Song @ Persona

    Engineering Founders · 2023-07-21

  94. Lessons co-founding and operating an AI/ML company during massive market shifts w/ Jared Roesch

    Engineering Founders · 2023-06-22

  95. Prioritizing & ignoring fires, mastering pivots, unexpected barriers to scale and scaling human-centric elements of your product w/ On Freund

    Engineering Founders · 2023-06-08

  96. Identifying your internal champion & finding the right data/stories to sell into companies w/ Buchi Reddy Busi Reddy

    Engineering Founders · 2023-05-25

  97. Gaining early-design partners, converting your first customers, identifying your ICP & default delegating w/ Mahima Chawla

    Engineering Founders · 2023-05-04

  98. Lessons from building in public & re-discovering product-market fit w/ Charley Ho & Alexander Embiricos

    Engineering Founders · 2023-04-21

  99. Company building with 3 co-founders, delineating roles & finding repeatable sales channels w/ Dylan Etkin, Don Brown & Michael Knighten @ Sleuth

    Engineering Founders · 2023-04-06

  100. Navigating the new fundraising environment, idea-mazing, relationship pipelines, and overcoming pattern-matching bias w/ Lizzie Matusov

    Engineering Founders · 2023-03-16

  101. Product primitives, pre/post PMF strategy & co-founder surveys w/ Arya Asemanfar

    Engineering Founders · 2023-03-02

  102. Google form MVPs, Leveraging Maslow’s Hierarchy in product, & customer acquisition strategies w/ Tri Ahmad Irfan

    Engineering Founders · 2023-02-16

  103. Pre-Seed Fundraising Strategy w/ Ihar Mahaniok

    Engineering Founders · 2023-01-27

  104. Why Your Product Is Scaling Faster Than Your Story Can Handle

    Product Management Tech Brief By HackerNoon · 2025-12-16