Alex Radu

Alex Radu — VP Education and Community Lead, Engineering Practices at JPMorgan Chase. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.

Alex Radu

VP Education and Community Lead, Engineering Practices

JPMorgan Chase

Alex is a VP Education and Community Lead, Engineering Practices at JP Morgan Chase in Glasgow the land of the unicorns. She is an international speaker, product community manager and MSc Computer Science graduate of the University of Bath. She previously worked as a conversational developer, software engineer and community manager among other roles.
In her work as a creative technologist, she combines content, community and cloud, to help products grow. Her role acts as a navigator between product, design, engineering and customers, underpinned by data and feedback.
In her personal life, she loves languages, speaking 4, whilst learning her 5th, Korean, with a 1100+ day streak on Duolingo. Alex adores living in Scotland with her family, 4-year old husky, Kai, and 1-year old Maine Coon kitten, Marvin!

Past talks

4 talks · 3 events

2026

UXDX EMEAMay 2026

Who Should Be the Most Nervous? Product Managers, Designers or Engineers?

AI isn’t coming. It’s already reshaping how products are built. It writes code, generates designs, synthesises research, and compresses workflows that used to span teams and weeks into minutes. It removes friction—and with it, many of the traditional boundaries between roles. But it doesn’t just accelerate output. It exposes it. When execution becomes abundant, the bottleneck shifts. From building → to deciding what’s worth building. From producing artefacts → to exercising judgment. From process → to understanding. This is not the end of product, design, or engineering. But it is the end of operating at the surface. In this session, we’ll examine what actually changes when AI becomes embedded in the way we work—not from a hype perspective, but from the realities teams are already facing. We’ll explore how roles evolve when tools can do the work, where depth still matters, and what differentiates teams that get better with AI from those that simply move faster. - Why AI exposes every discipline in product development - Why both shallow generalists and narrow specialists are increasingly vulnerable - How team structures shift when handoffs disappear and individuals can execute across domains - What “depth” really means when output is cheap and instant - How to rethink generalist vs specialist when AI fills capability gaps but not judgment - Which skills, mental models, and fundamentals compound, and which decay

2024

UXDX EMEAOct 2024

The Role and Responsibility of Prototyping in Product Development

What's the role of prototyping in your product development lifecycle? Do you use it in your discovery work or do you think prototypes are just designers' responsibility? Great product teams, marketers, tech writers or engineers should leverage prototypes or wireframes. This can help align with stakeholders, test assumptions, and decrease the risk, time and resources dedicated to engineering, product or design work based on inaccurate or untested assumptions. If you want to understand and harness the power of prototyping and experiments in your product development, discovery and reduce risk, time and resources while creating products, join us for this engaging forum!

Alex Radu

2023

UXDX EMEAOct 2023

Workshop

Product Marketing Mastery: Elevate Your Skills and Drive Remarkable Results.

Are you currently working in product and looking to enhance your product marketing skills? Do you want to explore effective strategies to increase product adoption and overcome challenges in customer communications? Join Alex in this workshop that will provide you with a valuable understanding of how product marketing can significantly enhance your product visibility and boost customer engagement. Through interactive hands-on activities and practical tools, you will: - Gain a deep understanding of product marketing, content creation, and communications strategies. - Learn how to design a comprehensive end-to-end marketing launch plan to effectively promote your products. - Discover how to utilize a continuous onboarding canvas and metrics framework to optimize customer onboarding and measure the success of your marketing efforts. Don't miss this opportunity to take your product marketing skills to the next level and drive remarkable results for your organization.

Alex Radu

The Role of the Product Manager: UX, Marketing, Strategy?

The role of the Product Manager is different in almost every organisation. How are teams structured? Is there one Product Manager per development team or does a Product Manager set the objectives for many teams? If you have hundreds of product managers do you have hundreds of product visions? How do Product Managers ensure that work isn't being duplicated across the organisation? Is it mostly project management? If you are having issues defining the remit of the Product Manager role, or you just want to hear how others are doing it, this is a forum not to be missed.

Alex Radu