Product management is definitely not people management. If anything, it is closest to UX, but also combines strategy and marketing.<p>In early-stage startups, the CEO is most often playing the product manager. 70% of a PM&#x27;s job should be speaking to users, both new and existing (usability testing of built features).<p>In small startups, product management will likely be mixed with project management - you will probably have to manage the teams&#x27; Pivotal Tracker &#x2F; Jira tickets. You will naturally work closely with UI&#x2F;UX designers, filtering through user feedback. You&#x27;re really the person that needs to know what your team should be building next and PM&#x27;s generally head roadmap planning and releases.<p>You also really need to be across the data&#x2F;SQL and understand exactly what features users are using, when and have a good idea of why. As a dev, this is where it would be to your advantage - being able to setup mixpanel&#x2F;tracking events or even pull &amp; analyze the raw data yourself is going to be a big advantage compared to other candidates.