Talking Roadmaps Does POps enable momentum? | Gerisha Nadaraju
Mar 27, 2026
Gerisha Nadaraju, Senior Director of Product Operations and host of the Product Ops podcast, shares her journey from finance and biz ops into building product ops for scale. She explores when product ops becomes essential, org models, tooling governance, and avoiding over-engineering. She also explains product-minded practices, roadmapping for ops, and how product ops fuels momentum.
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Catalyst Role Sparked Gerisha's Move Into Product Ops
- Gerisha moved organically from business ops to product ops after being asked to help product teams scale internationally.
- She joined an internal 'Catalyst' team, discovered the remit was product ops, and then hired four product ops to formalise it.
Product Ops Is About Enabling Alignment And Scale
- Product ops increases alignment and scaling efficiency by improving communication, processes, tooling, and access to information across product teams.
- Gerisha applied this definition across startup, scale-up, and large corporate contexts and tailors focus to the company's most critical problems.
Product Ops Sees The Alignment Product Managers Cannot
- Product managers focus on local alignment; product ops sees cross-org alignment needs and standardises practices so stakeholders don't have to talk to dozens of teams.
- Gerisha uses sharing of PM approaches and centralising patterns to scale alignment across 60+ teams.