Products That Count has announced the winners of the 2026 Product Leader Awards, honoring senior product leaders who are building learning organizations, making AI earn its place, and designing products built to adapt. Winners were selected by the independent Awards Advisory Council, which scored nominees on business impact, talent development, product thinking, cross-functional influence, and product championship.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Products That Count, the most trusted source for product leadership insights and a global network of over 600,000 product managers and executives, today announced the winners of the 2026 Product Leader Awards. Sponsored by EY and Nottingham Spirk, the Product Leader Awards celebrate senior product leaders who are defining what it means to build innovative products and lead high-performing teams as AI reshapes every part of the product organization.
The Product Leader Awards shine a spotlight on those guiding organizations through the most transformative challenges of our time. Winners were selected by the Awards Advisory Council, made up of 23 experienced product leaders from companies including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, PayPal, and Walmart. Council members scored each nominee on five criteria: Business & Financial Impact, Team Building & Talent Development, Product Thinking & Innovation, Cross-Functional Influence & Exec Presence, and Product Champion.
2026 Product Leader Award Winners:
Aarthi Srinivasan – Corporate Head of Gen AI, Docusign
AL Shanmugam – Head of Product, Personalization, MarTech & AdTech, EchoStar Corporation
Andi Le – Chief Digital Officer, FMC
Andrei Miloserdov – Senior Technical Product Manager, Amazon
Ankur Sinha – Chief Product & Technology Officer, Remitly
Artem Miloserdov – Senior Product Manager, Walmart
Askar Kamalov – Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
Atishree Jindal – Director of Products (AI & Platform), PEM Technologies
Cristina Crespo – VP Product, Paytient
Dmitrii Radkevich – Head of Product, Agentic Platform, Optic Inc.
Guilherme Arruda – Product Director, Thomson Reuters
Hemang Upadhyay – Senior Product Manager, AI Search, Discovery & Platform Modernization, LG Electronics USA
Holly O'Driscoll – Founder & CEO, Ampersand Innovation
Katey Norris – VP UX, UnitedHealth Group
Kingshuk Ghosh – Head of Product Management, kanverse.ai
Krishna Suman Dara – Senior Principal Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Laura Williams Argilla – VP Product Management, Alteryx
Lindsay Kloepping – Sr. Director, Global Head of Product and UX, 3Pillar Global
Nicole Fink – VP Product Management, Castlight Health
Nikki Ahmadi – Product, Amazon
Oleksandra Pariy – Chief Product Officer, Skins.Cash
Pawan Gaargi – Chief Product Officer, Monumental
Rajesh Ranjan – Senior Product Manager, Meta
Ritika Maheshwari – Principal Product Manager Technical, Mastercard
Sahil Arora – Director of Product Management, AI Infrastructure, Salesforce
Sara Sterling – Director, Commercial and R&D Digital, FMC
Satya S. Das – Director of Product Management, Unisys
Selena Hadzibabic – VP Product, Understood.org
Shalaka Kharche – Product & Technology Executive, Advisor, and Co-Founder (Stealth)
Shankar Krishnan – Product Leader, AI, Stripe
Siddhartha Pratihari – Senior Director, Product Management, McAfee
Sivan Zamir – EVP & Chief Innovation & Products Officer, Xylem
Suhel Parekh – Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
Suma Kumaraswamy – Senior Director, Online Mobile Banking, First Tech
Sunil Subramanian – Product Leader, Volvo Cars
Sushma Kittali-Weidner – Founder and CPTO, RHEO
Thomas Bullot – Product Director, Extreme Networks
Varun J. Vincent – Founder & CEO, FalconFirst AI
Vishwanath Hiremath – Principal System/Software Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
This year's winners exemplify product leadership in the AI era. They build the labs, sandboxes, and shared practices that bring entire organizations along with AI, rather than leaving adoption to individual teams. They insist that AI prove its value against a real customer problem and a real metric before it earns a place on the roadmap. And they design products and platforms that can absorb rapid technological change instead of breaking under it.
For the first time, the Advisory Council met with winners in a series of roundtables to discuss what set this year's leaders apart. Those conversations, along with profiles of every winner, are featured in the upcoming eBook, Inside the 2026 Product Leader Awards: What It Takes to Win.
Now in its third year, the Product Leader Awards recognize the individuals redefining leadership in the AI era. They serve as a benchmark for excellence and a source of inspiration for product executives seeking to evolve as quickly as the technologies they champion.
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