Bryan Roy

pm/designer. currently @airbnb. previously @spotify.

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

@wbz So close @NoahKahan

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

@shagbark_hick You're describing Noah Kahan New England vs. Vineyard Vines New England

[Naval @naval]

Vibe coding is the new product management.

Training and tuning models is the new coding.

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

@marclou @katarinaore What do you do for v02 max?

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

Inspo board 🤔

[Area @areatechnology_]

Brand exploration for OpenAI with Sam Altman, February 2023

Two logo concepts – Circle and Monogram – alongside broader exploration for ChatGPT across brand and product.

More details and link below.

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

Product managers and designers I love working with:

- Creative
- Decisive
- Storytellers
- Open minded
- Think like marketers
- Obsessed with users
- Pushes team on craft
- Doesn’t defer to metrics
- Never hides behind process
- Crystal clear on the problem

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

@fnthawar @Shopify In highly collaborative cross functional orgs, product management is now the bottleneck.

Once AI can simulate feedback loops with stakeholders and users, 10x PMs can keep up with 10x Engineers and Designers.

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

Spotify made personalized playlists for every user so that you didn’t need to curate music.

Someone needs to make personalized context for every user so that you don’t need to prompt chats.

[Carl Rivera @carlrivera]

“If AI had existed ten years ago, products would not look the way they do today. We need to move beyond chat and create experiences where AI feels native, invisible, and context-aware. This is our role: to imagine the future, and to bring it into the present.”

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

Every person in tech will feel how AI changes product management.

For example:

Pre-AI: Set up hours of back-to-back meetings to “align” with stakeholders

Post-AI: Train your agents and models to simulate discussions and feedback in seconds

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

@signulll The only antidote is founder mode

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

The <autofocus/> html attribute crawled so perplexity could run.

[Gunnar Gray @gunnargray]

2. Faster questions: removed the bottom navigation, allowing the app to launch with the keyboard open, making it faster to ask questions.

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

Spotify’s AI DJ began as a prototype with a generic voice that sounded like FM radio.

We almost shipped that. It would’ve failed.

The push for craft gave it the unique voice and personality of our coworker Xavier.

Engineers built it. UX Writers made it matter.

AI without great writing is just math.

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

Every product shipped at a big tech company is the sum of data + debates + decisions

I’ve been testing “AI agents as coworkers” in @cursor_ai to simulate this

Takeaways:

1. Product management is about to be reinvented

2. Chatting with AI still feels like the command line era

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

@signulll My favorite example of this is when we shipped Your Time Capsule (a nostalgic personalized playlist of songs we think you liked in high school). Previous iterations of the name were off putting at best @ajaymkalia

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

@signulll We thought a lot about this at Spotify. User delight is both an art and a science. The Personalization org has a small but mighty design team that partners with ML engineers to ship products and features with this intention.

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

New ad for the new business

https://t.co/mnsU2gGYLN

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

Now you can Airbnb more than an Airbnb

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. 🏒 ❄️

📍 Boston Public Garden
🗓️ 1930 - 2025

[Bryan Roy @bryanjroy]

@brennanjp What website is this?

[Conor Ryan @ConorRyan_93]

What a shot.