Entrepreneur

What is “Product Manager” ?

By حسام الكرد

November 20, 2015

Product Manager, we may find in Job vacancy or find some one put it as job title in his LinkedIn profile page or even in google and apple conferences. However is really people knows what is product manager means? and his key responsibilities. I already know about interview was requesting a product manager and the description has nothing with the job title, thus we write this blog to identify who is product manager.

First, What is Product Management:

Turning product into a valuable, usable, feasible and sellable commodity.

However Product Management have three main aspects

Product management is the intersection between business, technology and customer (user experience)

Product manager is “Mini CEO”, however his turn managing product not company and resources. Product manager often responsible for How and What, and he is involved in product planning, strategic planing and Market analysis.

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Key Responsibilities

• Specifying market requirements for current and future products. • Driving a solution set across development teams • Developing and implementing a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute. • Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product

 

Famous Product Managers

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Fred Smith, founder of FedEx

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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon

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David Packard, co-founder of HP

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Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft

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Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple

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Steve Case, co-founder of AOL

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Sundar Pichai, Chef of Google

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Michael Dell, founder of Dell

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Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape

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Larry Page, co-founder of Google

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Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle

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Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay

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Behaind any great product, there is a great product manage…Its a leading position and requiring unique skills and responsibility but its enjoyable, as product managers see their product part of their life

Best Wishes, till the next blog.

References:

Famous product managers

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