Reddit just welcomed Maria Angelidou Smith as Chief Product Officer. It is a big move for a platform that sits at the center of online communities, human conversations, and search.
Maria has led major products at Meta and helped scale the platform at Personio. Now Reddit wants her to push better search, stronger community tools, and a cleaner end-to-end app experience. (Source: Reddit Blog)
For product managers, this is a clear signal.
Community products are rising, AI-shaped search is becoming standard, and leadership roles blend product, platform, and business more tightly.
If you want a broader view on how these shifts show up across companies, the Product Career Hub blog tracks similar moves and what they mean for PM careers.
The real question is simple:
How do you turn this one leadership hire into a real edge for your own career, week by week, in a way most PMs never do?
Keep reading. The premium section walks through the exact steps.
If you want the real playbook many PMs never see, the next section is for you.
It gives you concrete moves you can start this month to grow into the roles companies are hiring for next.
Practical Moves Product Managers Can Run Today
The news is useful only if it changes what you do.
The steps below are the same patterns I use when coaching PMs who want to move toward senior roles with clear proof, not just busy work.
Each move connects to themes behind Reddit’s CPO hire and turns them into action you can repeat.