Naomi Gleit

Head of Product at Meta

Naomi Gleit is Head of Product at Meta and the longest-serving executive after Mark Zuckerberg, having joined as employee number 29 and seen the company scale from 30 employees to a $1.5 trillion business over almost 20 years.

The Operator The Growth Scientist

Dimension Profile

Strategic Vision 70%

Execution & Craft 85%

Data & Experimentation 60%

Growth & Distribution 80%

Team & Leadership 85%

User Empathy & Research 50%

Key Themes

canonical docs and extreme clarity Facebook growth team lessons simplifying complex problems PM as conductor leadership lessons from Zuck meeting and documentation tactics

Episode Summary

Naomi Gleit, Meta's longest-serving executive after Zuckerberg (employee #29), shares lessons from Facebook's legendary growth team and her superpower of simplifying complex problems. She discusses why PMs are conductors, the importance of canonical docs for extreme clarity, leadership lessons learned from Zuck, and tactical tips for running meetings and writing effective documentation.

Leadership Principles

→ Every project needs one canonical doc — if you ask five people and get five answers, that's unacceptable
→ PMs are the conductor of the product team — they don't play every instrument but ensure harmony
→ The superpower is taking complex, gnarly problems and simplifying them to deliver results

Notable Quotes

"I really believe in frameworks for things that helps drive extreme clarity. There needs to be one canonical doc. Everyone should know exactly where the canonical doc is."
— On her approach to managing complexity across many projects at Meta

"I ask five different people, get five different answers. That is unacceptable."
— On why canonical documentation is essential for organizational clarity

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