Christina Goldschmidt
Christina Goldschmidt — VP, Product Design at Warner Music Group. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.
VP, Product Design
Christina Goldschmidt is an award-winning design leader who is known for transforming product design teams to work at enterprise scale. She has a proven track record of fostering cultures that drive both business and social impact by unlocking the power of data. Before joining Warner Music Group as their VP of Product Design, Christina spent 25 years gaining cross-functional experience driving digital innovation including at Fortune 500 companies like Etsy, Accenture, Morgan Stanley, American Express, Omnicom Media Group, The Discovery Channel and others. She is an advocate for mental health and works to help managers lead from a place of authenticity. Christina is a board advisor and founding member of the Design Executive Council. Christina received her MBA from NYU Stern, where she is also an Adjunct Professor, and holds a B.S. in design from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Past talks
3 talks · 2 events
Is AI Taking Your Job or Changing It?
AI is changing product work fast. It can write code, accelerate research, support design decisions and remove hours of repetitive work. But is it taking your job, or changing it? In this debate, Dana Lawson and Christina Goldschmidt take opposing sides on one of the most urgent questions facing modern teams. One side argues that AI is reducing the need for specialists by collapsing roles, raising expectations and putting more pressure on fewer individuals. The other argues that AI is changing the job, not replacing it, freeing skilled practitioners to focus on judgement, systems thinking, strategy, creativity, and the decisions that matter most. Moderated by Ryan Leffel, this session explores what happens as AI reshapes not just coding, but also design, research, delivery, and product decision-making. What does that mean for the future of cross-functional teams? Will experienced product managers, designers, and engineers become more valuable, or will the pressure on individuals become unsustainable? And if AI takes on more of the work across the product lifecycle, who stays accountable for what gets built, why it gets built, and whether it should exist at all?
The Risk of Moving Fast in the Wrong Direction
AI increases speed. Boards love speed. Investors love speed. But speed without validation creates expensive mistakes at scale. AI has collapsed the time between idea and execution. Teams can generate concepts, prototypes, and even fully functional experiences in days. But acceleration increases risk. Assumptions scale faster. Confident decisions are made on thinner evidence. In an AI-driven product environment, the real risk is not moving too slowly. It is moving quickly in the wrong direction. How do leaders ensure customer truth keeps pace with technical velocity? How do you prevent beautifully executed irrelevance? What does rigorous discovery look like when iteration cycles shrink dramatically? This session explores how leading product organizations balance acceleration with evidence to protect long-term advantage. This speaks directly to business risk and capital allocation. Very executive.
