The Role of a Product Manager

Three traits that make you a great PM to work with:

1. Raise difficult issues without being difficult to work with




2. Bring up important topics without drawing importance to yourself




3. Remember that you are in charge of getting decisions made, not making the decisions yourself

However, the ultimate role of product management is making or suggesting trade-offs between the pristine, platonic ideal of beauty that the design team wants, the technical pizzazz engineering desires, the “just give me some shit I can sell” of sales, and the “this may be risky” of legal (these examples are all purposefully exaggerated).