Cristina Fuser
Cristina Fuser — VP of Product at Buzzfeed. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.
VP of Product
Cristina Fuser is VP of Product at BuzzFeed, where she leads consumer product strategy and helps build high-performing product and design teams, taking platform bets from early exploration through scaled execution.
Previously, Cristina held product leadership roles at VICE Media, and was Senior Product Manager at Refinery29. Earlier in her career, she was the sole Product Manager at pq by ron arad, an eCommerce startup using 3D scanning and 3D printing to create fully customised eyewear, owning the end-to-end customer experience across digital and retail.
Past talks
2 talks · 1 event
From Board AI Pressure to Shipped Product Value
Every board is asking how product teams are using AI, while designers, engineers and data scientists juggle fatigue, fragmented experiments and legacy stacks. Using BuzzFeed’s AI journey across news, entertainment and subscriptions as a case study, Cristina opens a cross functional discussion on turning AI pressure into shippable value across consumer products, internal tooling and subscription growth. Outcomes: - Share concrete ways to turn vague AI mandates into sharp, fundable problem statements - Identify how early adopter tinkerers can de risk AI change and influence sceptical teams - Compare approaches for deciding when AI experiments stay as prototypes and when to invest in platform change - Design new rituals across product, design and engineering so AI work flows into production, not just slide decks
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.
