CPO Rising Series: Involve.ai CPO on Transforming Sales with AI-Powered SDR Agents

  • Video Video
  • October 16, 2025
Saumya Bhatnagar

involve.ai, Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder

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Are you ready to see how AI is transforming sales forever? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Renee Niemi, Involve.ai CPO Saumya Bhatnagar will be speaking on transforming sales with AI-powered SDR agents. Saumya shares her groundbreaking insights on how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales strategies, reducing manual work, and enabling teams to focus on relationship-building and strategic growth.

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Show Notes:

  1. AI is transforming sales from assistant to autonomous agent
  2. Product management is evolving to be more strategic and creative
  3. Prioritize solving user problems over building features
  4. Implement a dynamic roadmap that adapts to changing priorities
  5. Use OKRs to drive innovation and take calculated risks
  6. Break down complex problems using first-principle thinking
  7. Maintain a learning mindset and be comfortable being wrong
  8. AI tools are reducing barriers between product and engineering teams
  9. Focus on a single North Star metric tied to user value
  10. Create a culture of continuous innovation
  11. Encourage teams to explore multiple solution paths
  12. Sales will shift to relationship-building as AI handles prospecting
  13. Product leaders should communicate vision consistently
  14. Embrace failure as a learning opportunity
  15. Develop cross-functional collaboration (P, D & E)
  16. Use AI to free up time for strategic thinking
  17. Implement a value priority score for feature development
  18. Build products that extend growth and maturity phases
  19. Understand user problems through jobs-to-be-done framework
  20. Cultivate a growth mindset from early career stages

About the speaker

Saumya Bhatnagar
involve.ai, Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder
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About the host

Renee Niemi
Mighty Capital, Partner

Renee Niemi is a Product Partner at Mighty Capital. She leads our CPO Fellows program, a curriculum designed to prepare Fortune 1000 CPOs to step into board roles. Prior, she spent most of her career creating high impact products and businesses. She held the role of CPO at Fortune 500 company Logitech and was one of only 5 General Managers at Google. Renee holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University.

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