Cohen: LinkedIn replaced rigid PM trios with quarterly builder pods
Tomer Cohen · Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO) · Dec 4, 2025 · at 14:56
LinkedIn CPO Tomer Cohen explains how LinkedIn restructured its product teams into flexible pods.
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“One of the things we've done as an example, we kind of started to do the idea of pods. We're no longer large teams. We assemble a team, ideally a full stack builder is coming together. And, you know, it's less about, can I have an engineer design PM working together and trying to go on this trio, looking at folks who can flex across, and then they tackle something for a quarter or so. And then we kind of reassemble those two different pods.”
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