After the recent reading, I now perceive the product manager’s job as a kind of “don’t shoot the messenger!” kind of role. As a product manager, you are the chief liaison between different teams that play unique roles – it’s like being a universal translator in a room where there are many people from different countries who only speak their native language. From this responsibility stems all of a product manager’s day to day tasks. Directly, this leads to communication being a top skill. Needs and opinions communicated from stakeholders as well as gleaned from user research need in turn to be translated into organizational recommendations for the product team. This strategy in turn is translated into action on the product manager and product team’s part.
My question is: why do you think the role of product manager arose? How did this job come to be, as it is not immediately intuitive as a need?
