Executive Coaching for Product Development Leaders

​Most tech companies don't train new managers—they just throw them into the deep end and hope they figure it out. Sound familiar?

 

I'm Mahesh Guruswamy, CPTO at Kickstarter and author of "How to Deliver Bad News and Get Away With It." I've spent 20+ years building products and leading teams at Amazon, Smartsheet, Kajabi, and now Kickstarter.

 

Here's what I know: The hardest part of leadership isn't the strategy—it's the daily reality of managing people, delivering bad news, and making impossible decisions with incomplete information.

 

I currently coach product development executives at leading healthtech, collaboration, and fintech companies, helping them transform from technical experts into confident leaders.

 

What You Get:

• Real talk, not theory - Battle-tested frameworks from someone who's been in the trenches

• The uncomfortable conversations - How to deliver feedback, manage underperformers, and push back on executives

• Systems that actually work - Practical approaches to the "messy middle" of management

 

Perfect For:

• Newly promoted VPs of Engineering, CTOs, and Head of Product roles

• Technical leaders struggling with people management

• Executives navigating rapid scaling, layoffs, or organizational transformation

 

Stop learning leadership the hard way. Let's talk. Find time on my calendar here.