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What is a good product manager to engineer ratio to maintain as you scale?

Deepak Mukunthu
Salesforce Senior Director of Product, Agentforce AI Platform3y
The ideal product manager-to-engineer ratio can vary depending on the nature and complexity of the products being developed, the size and stage of the organization, and o...
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Julian Dunn
Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management1y
To me, this is less a question of literally number of PM bodies to engineering bodies; that depends on the company, its context, the complexity of its products, and many ...
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Roshni Jain
Volley VP of Product2y
PM to engineer ratios can range wildly from 1 PM to every 2-3 engineers to something 1 PM to 15 engineers. This largely depends on the size of the company and the type of...
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Preethy Vaidyanathan
Matterport VP of Product1y
Product manager to engineer ratio can range from 1 PM to 5 or 6 engineers all the way to 1 PM to 10 to 12 engineers. It all depends on the seniority of the product manage...
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Nicolas Liatti
Adobe Senior Director of Product Management, 3D Category1y
I believe the most efficient teams are usually 10 people maximum, including engineers / design and PM.So I like to have 1 PM for 7-8 engineers + 1 designer, to make a tea...
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Omar Eduardo Fernández
GitLab Director of Product Management3y
I'll share a few examples from my career that I've seen, with some context. In the end, PMs don't just do one thing, so their bandwidth will vary based on what the team n...
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