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How is the role of technical product manager different than other product managers?

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Technical Product Management
  1. Navin Ganeshan
    Navin Ganeshan

    Amazon Head of Driver Products, Amazon Relay • 4y

    A technical product manager has a more substantial role working with engineering teams on core architecture and component design related to a feature. If all product managers have allegiance to different dimensions - business/revenue, customer experience, product/tech strategy, marketing etc - the technical product manager indexes more heavily along the areas of technology design and integration. For most products, feature development usually happens on a longer cadence involving multiple iterat ...Read More

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  2. Deepak Mukunthu
    Deepak Mukunthu

    Salesforce Senior Director of Product, Agentforce AI Platform • 3y

    The role of a technical product manager (TPM) is different from other product managers in that TPMs typically have a deeper technical background and are responsible for managing the development and implementation of technical products or features. TPMs work closely with engineering teams to ensure that product features are designed and built in a technically feasible way and that they meet the needs of both customers and the business. They are responsible for understanding the technical requirem ...Read More

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  3. Devika Nair
    Devika Nair

    Oracle Director of Product Management • 3y

    It is rare to have a technical product manager and another product manager working on the same product. When this happens, it is usually in organizations where one of the product managers work in a more inbound or engineering facing role and the other in a more outbound and customer facing role. 

    In general, technical product managers work on technical products with tech customers while non-technical PMs might have products whose primary target customer isn't technical.

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