Between Product and Partnerships Podcast

Interviews with product, partnership and engineering leaders who are building integrated SaaS ecosystems
Hosted by Cristina Flaschen
In this episode, Cristina Flaschen, CEO of Pandium, sits down with Ben Marks, longtime developer advocate and open source champion, to explore the evolving role of ecosystems and communities in the tech industry.
Published:
October 1, 2025
In this episode, we speak with Bani Malhotra, a seasoned product leader, about the challenges of scaling product teams and infrastructure through acquisition, integration, and cultural change.
Published:
January 29, 2026
In this episode, we speak with Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting, and Shon Urbas, CTO of Pandium, about the real-world challenges of building integrations that involve identity, compliance, and data governance.
Published:
July 17, 2025
In this episode we sit down with Kayleen Standridge, Senior Technical Product Manager at Stellar Cyber to discuss the unique challenges of building integrations in cybersecurity.
Published:
July 4, 2025
In this episode, we sit down with Archna Carlstone, Head of Product at Carputty to discuss building, scaling and evolving SaaS platforms.
Published:
June 20, 2025
In this discussion, Cristina sits down with Faria Anzum, Developer Experience Product Design Lead at Canva, to explore her approach to SaaS integrations, developer experience, as well as the impact of AI on building scalable partner ecosystems.
Published:
June 11, 2025
In this episode of Between Product and Partnerships, Cristina Flaschen sat down with Shrijit Patel, Technical Product Manager at Chronograph, to talk about building integration infrastructure, developing anti-fragile systems, and bridging the technical gap as a backend-focused PM.
Published:
May 20, 2025
In this episode of Between Product and Partnerships, we sit down with Indy Sen, Product Marketing Manager for Ecosystem at Canva, to explore what it takes to build a thriving SaaS platform.
Published:
May 7, 2025