Chief Product Officer, Ramp
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Eric Glyman, Ramp’s Co-Founder and CEO, and Geoff Charles, Chief Product Officer, talk about how AI is upending corporate finance, unveil new product offerings and show how the platform's latest features will help customers save even more time and money. 00:00 Eric Glyman address 21:40 Procurement & Bill Pay 30:40 Ramp Receivables 39:10 Stack 48:30 Token Spend Management 57:00 Router 01:00:10 Wrap-up
At Lenny and Friends Summit, Ramp's CPO Geoff Charles explains why building faster with AI means finding bottlenecks across the entire product development process. He shows how Ramp uses AI agents to uncover customer problems, shape ideas, review and test code, coordinate launches, and fix UX issues. As each bottleneck shifts, he argues that product leaders need to keep improving the system they use to build and rethink the PM's role within it. Recorded live at Lenny and Friends Summit on September 10, 2026, in San Francisco.
AI is an extinction event for the traditional product playbook. Geoff Charles explains why Ramp is replacing classic PMs and burning their own code to maintain legendary velocity. Geoff Charles: / geoffrey-charles 00:00 How AI Destroyed the Product Playbook? 01:08 What Are the 3 Levels of AI Proficiency? 03:55 When Should You Rip Up Your Own Code? 06:57 Why Did Charles Change Ramp’s Org Design? 08:21 How Did One Hackathon Change Everything? 13:08 Does the Product Manager Role Still Exist? 18:18 Why Are There Only 22 PMs at Ramp? 22:25 Is Middle Management Dead in the AI Era? 26:36 How…
Copy my best AI workflows to save time and automate busywork: https://www.behindthecraft.com 🤝 Subscribe to my practical AI newsletter read by 150K+ professionals: https://creatoreconomy.so Geoff is the CPO of Ramp and runs one of the most AI-native orgs I’ve seen. He showed me an amazing Claude Code PM skill that his team uses to go from idea to product and shared live demos of Ramp’s internal AI agents for customer research, data analysis, and more. Geoff also shared 5 specific tactics Ramp followed to go from barely anyone using AI to non-engineers shipping production code. Geoff and…
I recently sat down with Geoff Charles, Chief Product Officer at Ramp, to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of corporate finance technology. Recently promoted to CPO, Geoff has been with Ramp since its early days when the company was just 10 people. His journey from product manager to C-suite exemplifies Ramp’s growth trajectory as a company now hiring hundreds of employees annually. The Big Ideas AI as a Financial Co-Pilot: “The average employee doesn’t have a degree in finance… our models are more accurate than the average employee,” Charles explains, highlighting how AI can democratiz…
The NY Enterprise Tech Meetup bring together the best community of enterprise software founders, operators, VCs, corporate execs, and more. 🔥 Our panel shared the tactics of how to push your product to the next level with velocity, collaboration, and experimentation, featuring: Geoff Charles, VP of Product at Ramp Mihika Kapoor, Product Lead at Figma Moderated by Jessica Lin, General Partner at Work-Bench Geoff joined Ramp in 2020, just before the company launched its first product. Since then, Ramp has experienced remarkable growth, surpassing $100M in ARR within just two years. He has sp…
Every single 20VC episode is recorded with Riverside.FM. It is the one product that I could not live without. Try it today here (https://creators.riverside.fm/20VC) and use the code 20VC for 15% off. ----------------------------------------------- Geoff Charles is the VP of Product at Ramp, leading the product management, operations, and support teams. Prior to Ramp, Geoff helped spin off Mission Lane and scale credit products to millions of consumers. He started his career advising Fortune 100 financial services companies. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: (0:00…
Geoff Charles is VP of Product at Ramp—the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time, Fast Company’s #1 Most Innovative Company in North America, and a company I believe we should all study for how they operate, execute, and hire. At Ramp, Geoff has led the product team from the early days, including the development and release of 60+ products and features in the past year alone. He has been building financial services for over a decade, and his interview in Lenny’s Newsletter quickly became one of the most widely read newsletter issues of all time. In today’s podcast, we will discuss: • How ve…
RSVP to our next event (9 tix left): https://founderpath.com/events/founde... How Ramp Raised $800m in 18 Months, Plans to Grow from 80 to 300 Ramp's Head of Product Geoff Charles Visit them here: www.ramp.com 1:26 Win the Marathon, Sprint by Sprint 2:09 Ramp’s Product Velocity 3:01 3 keys to optimizing product development 3:38 “Don’t make excuses.” 5:09 Product Management vs. Project Management 5:52 Single Threaded Teams - Build Autonomous Product Driven Teams 7:03 Single Threaded Teams - Hold Teams Accountable 7:34 Travel - Example #1 8:45 Travel - Example #2 9:43 Bi-directional feedba…
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