Product manager responsibilities
Speaking from startup perspective.<p>While there are a hand full of exceptions. IMHO the dedicated role of a product manager is exceptionally counter productive.<p>Unless they are a founder they tend to lack technical expertise of capable enginners and enginnering managers as well as have a disconnect from the core drivers of what can make the buisness sucessful.<p>Maybe I have just had bad luck but in my 12 years of experiance with 6+ startups it&#x27;s either the founders or buisness competent technical leaders who have driven a company and its products to suceed. &quot;Formal&quot; product managers I have come to associate with elements that kill startups... things like kingdom building, playing politics, information withholding, setting timelines and expectations without any real clue what it really takes.<p>We need buisness competent enginners, systems to feed feedback from sales and customer service to product enginner teams and engineering leaders who can communicate with other departments and understand buisness goals that they must build towards.<p>What is not needed a role who does not know sales, customer service, marketing ,or enginnering who puts systems in place to seperated thoes units for their own personal benafit.