How technical should one be if they are interested in being a Developer Product Manager?
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Salesforce Senior Director of Product, Agentforce AI Platform • 1mo
Should be technical enough to:Understand API design, trade-offs, and constraintsRead code and reason about systemsHave meaningful conversations with engineersBut you don’...
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GitLab Group Manager, Product Management • 3y
As a Product Manager, you need deep knowledge of the personas you serve. To build great products for developers, you don't need to be a developer, but you need to underst...
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BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X • 7mo
Developer Experience PM should be fairly technical as their customers are software developers. Unless you understand the overall Software development lifecycle (SDLC), yo...
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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 2y
Quite technical, because you cannot have the requisite level of empathy for the target user, not to mention be credible with your engineering team if you aren't. Now, I d...
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API Strategist API Product Strategy Consultant | Formerly Box, Tradeshift, DocuSign, Deserve, Edmodo, Pinn.ai • 1y
I assume by "Developer Product Manager" you mean a Product Manager who is focused on developer-facing Products, like APIs or infrastructure tools. I've worked in the API...
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