How would you define a Platform Product Manager? And what are their main responsibilities?

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Platform Product Management

Paresh Vakhariya

Atlassian Director of Product Management (Confluence) | Formerly PayPal, eBay, Intel, Verizon • Jun 11

A Platform PM owns the product layer that other teams build on top of not the end-user experience, but the infrastructure, APIs, shared services, and developer tooling that make those experiences possible. Define and own the platform's contract. This means APIs, data models, authentication patterns, permissions, and the guarantees you make to internal and external consumers. Manage internal customers like external ones. Your stakeholders are engineering teams, other PMs, and sometimes partners. ...Read More

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Deepak Mukunthu

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

As a Product Manager, you are responsible for: 1. Defining product vision/strategy/roadmap based on deep understand of customers, business and competitive landscape 2. Working with various cross-functional stakeholders and partners to execute on your roadmap and ship product/features 3. Establishing processes to gather customer feedback to continuously evolve the product Platform Product Manager role is very different except the product is a platform and hence your customers are the ones using t ...Read More

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Ashka Vakil

strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management • 2y

Platform product managers are responsible for building a set of services and capabilities that are used by customers (internal or external) to build products or solutions. Operating systems like iOS and Android, Mobile app stores like Google Play, and Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are some examples of platforms that typically platform product managers will be responsible for. Platform PMs essentially build foundational layers or capabilities that help internal teams or external compan ...Read More

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