The Product Podcast with Vercel CPO Tom Occhino

Tom Occhino helped build React at Facebook, leading the JavaScript Infrastructure team and later the React and Web Core engineering group before becoming VP of Engineering at Vercel. Today, as Chief Product Officer, he leads product, engineering, and design together, right as Vercel repositions itself from “the home of Next.js” to what it now calls the agentic infrastructure company. In this episode, Carlos talks with Tom about what it actually looks like to run product, engineering, and design as one org instead of three, how that structure changes as AI agents start shipping code alongside human developers, and what he’s learned building developer tools for a user base that is itself building the next generation of AI-native products. It’s a conversation for product leaders trying to figure out where their own org charts and workflows need to bend as AI reshapes how software gets built.