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Is a Developer Product Manager the same as a Technical Product Manager?

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  1. Deepak Mukunthu
    Deepak Mukunthu

    Salesforce Senior Director of Product, Agentforce AI Platform • 2mo

    There’s overlap, but they’re not identical. Technical PM → Focuses on building technically complex systems (may be internal or external) Developer PM → Focuses on developers as users A Dev PM needs technical depth, but the real difference is: Obsessing over developer experience (DX) Thinking in APIs, SDKs, docs, onboarding, and ecosystem Caring about things like time-to-first-call, error clarity, and extensibility You can be technical without being developer-focused, but you can’t be a good Dev ...Read More

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  2. Aindra Misra
    Aindra Misra

    BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X • 8mo

    Developer Product Manager is responsible for making tools to help developer increase their throughput and productivity. It's broadly referred as Developer experience (DevEx). It covers the entire software development lifecycle for developers, and the goal of the Developer PM is to enable developers with tools and automation across all the stages of DevEx.

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