What kinds of ongoing, cross-functional meetings do you think are important to have? Which teams are involved, and what agenda items do you recommend?

At the VP level, these are the meetings I try never to miss:

• Engineering, Design & Operations peers [Weekly] – Having this at my current has made the biggest difference. My peers are my "first team" and we have time set aside to proactively problem-solve together, instead of being brought together only in escalation situations. Anyone can add agenda topics, and we order them at the beginning of each meeting based on urgency.

• GTM Sync & Launch Readiness [Weekly] – This is a regular touchpoint with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success leaders. The agenda is dually driven by Product/PMO which provide a status update on delivery and Marketing/Customer Success sharing targeting, comms, training, and assets. (Separately, I have biweekly 1:1s with CMO and CRO for strategic alignment.)

• HR [Weekly] – This meeting changes depending on growth stage and/or seasonality. It expands with hiring sprints, promotion cycles, and organizational transitions. It contracts at other times, to a 1:1 with my HR peer. Agenda includes tactical and urgent topics first, then reviewing a tracker to ensure progress on longer-term shared goals.

• Finance, Legal [Monthly] – These meetings are all about risk management. Legal keeps me up to date on AI concerns and changing regional regulations. Finance helps me understand our revenue and investment ranges, so I can understand where I need to mitigate Product downsides.