Brendan Marsh
Organisational and Product Adviser
Built in Australia, fine tuned in Sweden. Passionate about building great products that customers love through modern Product Management practices and supportive organisational structures.
Put people first and results will follow.
I've been working in the tech product space for 12 years and have recently returned to Australia, after six years in Sweden. Five of those I spent with Spotify during their hyper-growth phase, first as an Agile Coach and then as the Product Manager for Spotify’s desktop client.
I've an eclectic mix of skills and experience, having worked as an Agile / Org Coach, Product Manager and Chief Product Officer. I've worked on mature platforms with millions of users (like Spotify for Mac / Windows), blue sky innovation features (like Spotify Running), as well as in the depths of technical infrastructure, with native client architecture and big data.
- Product Management / Product Ownership
- Agile and Lean Coaching
- Product Discovery / Innovation
- Organisational Design and Culture
- Leadership Coaching
I'm particularly passionate about helping individuals, teams and organisations to accomplish their goals through working with and acknowledging the human side of work.
Throughout mytime at Spotify, I had the honour of giving talks across Europe about Product Discovery and the Agile Coach role, telling stories through the lens of Spotify’s culture.
Just prior to joining Organa I worked at a non profit, mental health startup on a mission to bring personal growth to the masses and I joined Organa to bring lessons learned from Sweden to Australia as well wanting to be part of a company that shares the principles and ways of working I've come to love and admire.
Brendan Marsh
Blogs
AI Productivity: Hype vs Reality (5/6): Closed systems will fail
The organisations best positioned for AI built open, accessible codebases years ago - not for AI, but because it was the right way to build software. AI just made the payoff enormous.
AI Productivity: Hype vs Reality (4/6): Watch out for Mt. Stupid (Dunning-Kruger Effect)
AI doesn't close the expertise gap - it widens it. Give the same tools to an expert and they catch the bad plans. Give them to someone earlier on that curve, and they churn out a lot of crap - just by not knowing better.
AI Productivity: Hype vs Reality (3/6): The burnout cliff is coming
People restructuring their sleep schedules to check on AI agents overnight. Teams doing 12-14 hour days during multi-week "lockdown" sprints. A pace he described as "truly not sustainable for the human brain."
AI Productivity: Hype vs Reality (2/6): Quality is the new bottleneck
Work is shifting from producing work to evaluating it. Every organisation adopting AI needs to ask: what are our quality gates now? Who (and what) reviews AI-assisted output?
AI Productivity: Hype vs Reality (1/6): Temper your expectations
AI capabilities have leaped forward in 2026. But how much of the productivity hype is actually true? Brendan shares what senior engineers and PMs at big tech companies are really seeing on the ground.
From transactional to memorable: how small touches build product loyalty
Here, we’ll explore why delight features are crucial for long-term product loyalty and why product management is as much an art as it is a science.
The value of unplanned time: 3 examples from my days at Spotify
For many leaders, creating empty space for their teams is counter-intuitive. In this article, I will give 3 examples of creating space for teams, from my time working at Spotify, that I hope will change your mind.
An open-source, collaborative tool for growing product managers
The Product Management Competency Framework enables PMs and PM teams to assess their skills and have discussions about their growth, relative to their interests and the interests of their organisation.
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