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How technical should one be if they are interested in being a Developer Product Manager?

Deepak Mukunthu
Salesforce Senior Director of Product, Agentforce AI PlatformMar 25
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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Melissa Ushakov
GitLab Group Manager, Product Management3y
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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Aindra Misra
BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X6mo
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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Julian Dunn
Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management2y
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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Jeremy Glassenberg
API Strategist API Product Strategy Consultant | Formerly Box, Tradeshift, DocuSign, Deserve, Edmodo, Pinn.ai1y
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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