Share your product thinking with the ProdPad community

Share your product thinking with the ProdPad community

ProdPad was built by product people, and we’ve always believed the best product thinking comes from practitioners, not textbooks. Our blog and webinar series reach thousands of product managers, product leaders, and product ops professionals every month. If you have something worth saying, we want to hear it.

We accept guest blog posts and webinar guest pitches. Both go through the same filter: does this help a working product person do their job better?

What we publish

We’re looking for posts and sessions grounded in real experience. The kind of thing you’d share with a peer over coffee because it actually changed how you work.

Topics that resonate with our audience:

• Roadmapping and strategy alignment.
• Connecting discovery to delivery.
• Feedback management and customer insight.
• Prioritization without politics.
• Scaling product practices across growing teams.
• Proving the value of product work to the business.
• OKRs and outcome measurement.
• Working with stakeholders who still want dates on everything.
• Building product culture in organizations that don’t yet have it.

If your topic connects to one of these themes and you can write about it from direct experience, you’re in the right place.

What we don’t publish:

Anything written by content marketers, SEO agencies, or freelance writers on behalf of a company. We can tell. Product-adjacent content that’s really a pitch for your tool, consultancy, or course. Beginner-level explainers (“What is a product roadmap?”). We have a glossary for that. Anything previously published elsewhere, including on your own blog. We ask for exclusivity for 30 days after publication.

Guest blog posts

Format and length: 1,200 to 2,000 words. We prefer posts that go deep on one idea rather than skimming across several. If you can say it in 1,200 words, say it in 1,200 words.

Voice: Write like you’re explaining something to a sharp colleague, not presenting at a conference. Be direct. Be specific. Name the actual problem you faced, what you tried, and what happened. Abstract advice without context doesn’t land.

What to send us: Email contribute@prodpad.com with:

1. A short pitch (3-5 sentences) describing what the post is about and why it matters to product people right now.
2. A rough draft or detailed outline. We don’t need a polished piece upfront, but we need enough to evaluate the idea.
3. A couple of lines about you: your name, role, company, and a headshot. You’ll get an author page on the site.

What happens next: We review pitches within two weeks. If it’s a fit, we’ll work with you on the draft. Our editorial team will suggest structural edits and tighten copy to match our house style. You’ll approve the final version before it goes live. If the topic isn’t right for us, we’ll tell you why.

After publication: Your post gets promoted through ProdPad’s newsletter (The Outcome), LinkedIn, and social channels. We’ll give you a shareable link and we’d love for you to share it with your own network too. After 30 days, you’re free to republish elsewhere with a “Originally published on ProdPad” attribution and a link back to the original.

Webinar guest spots

ProdPad runs a regular webinar series featuring product leaders, practitioners, and thinkers who have something concrete to share. Past guests include Teresa Torres, Melissa Perri, April Dunford, Christina Wodtke, Jeff Gothelf, Bruce McCarthy, and Petra Wille, alongside dozens of practitioners from companies of all sizes.

Format: 45-60 minutes, hosted by a member of the ProdPad team. Conversational, not slide-heavy. We want a real discussion, not a rehearsed talk. Live Q&A with the audience.

What makes a strong webinar pitch: A specific challenge you’ve navigated and can speak about with authority. A point of view that might be a bit uncomfortable. Something your audience will still be thinking about the next morning.

What to send us: Email contribute@prodpad.com with:

1. Your proposed topic in one sentence.
2. Two or three bullet points on what the audience will walk away with.
3. A short bio and a link to a previous talk, podcast, or article so we can hear your voice.

What happens next: We review webinar pitches on a rolling basis and plan sessions roughly 6-8 weeks ahead. If your topic fits our upcoming calendar, we’ll set up a short call to align on the session structure. You don’t need to prepare slides (though you can if it helps). We handle all promotion, registration, and hosting.

After the session: The recording gets published to our webinar library and promoted through our channels. We’ll share a direct link for your own promotion. Strong sessions often get repurposed into blog content, newsletter features, and social clips, always with attribution.

Who should pitch

You don’t need a huge following or a book deal. You do need direct, hands-on experience with the topic you’re pitching. Product managers, heads of product, VPs, CPOs, product ops leads, UX researchers, engineering leaders who work closely with product teams. If you’ve solved a real problem and can articulate what you learned, that’s enough.

We’re especially interested in hearing from practitioners at companies in fintech, healthtech, edtech, government/public sector, and regulated industries. Product management in these environments has specific constraints that don’t get enough airtime.

A note on editorial standards

We edit for clarity, not ego. Every post goes through our editorial process, which means we may restructure sections, tighten language, and cut anything that doesn’t earn its place. We won’t change your ideas or your conclusions. We will make sure they land as clearly as possible.

We use US English for all ProdPad blog content. We have a low tolerance for buzzwords and jargon. If a sentence could appear in any SaaS company’s blog without changing a word, it probably needs rewriting. Say what you actually mean in plain language and your readers will thank you.