This year, we renamed the Product Manager Awards. It’s now the Product Builder Awards. The traditional PM role is quickly evolving into the Product Builder role, and we want to reflect that change through our awards. The Product Builder is the first AI-native role in business, the first job where using AI is the operating model.
Today, we announced the 2026 Product Builder Awards winners: 30 builders chosen from 5000 nominees. And here’s why I think you should pay attention to these winners. Each one owned their product start to finish.
That’s the exact shift we’ve been tracking all year: judgment and execution living in one person instead of getting handed off across a team. Past winners have gone on to found their own companies and step into chief product officer roles. Whoever’s on this list is worth knowing now, not in two years when everyone else catches up.
Meet and connect with the winners below. And keep an eye on your inbox next week, because I’m going to share what this class taught all of us about where product work is headed.
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