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Product manager

Meaning in product management, with examples

/ˈprɑːdʌkt ˌmænɪdʒər/nounCore term

In product management, product manager means: The person who decides what a product should do and why, by understanding users and the business, and who guides the team that builds it.

In Turkish: ürün yöneticisi, ürün müdürü

How it is used

A job title in tech companies, startups and digital teams, usually shortened to PM. Common levels are associate, senior, group and principal product manager. A PM works with design, engineering, data, marketing and sales but usually manages none of them directly.

Example sentences

  1. Our new product manager spent her first two weeks talking to customers before touching the roadmap.

  2. Ask the product manager of the payments team; she owns the checkout flow.

Common collocations

  • senior product manager
  • work as a product manager
  • technical product manager
  • report to the product manager
  • product ownerIn Scrum, the person accountable for the product backlog: deciding its order, making items clear and making sure the team works on the most valuable things.
  • stakeholderAny person or group inside or outside the company who is affected by a product decision or can influence it, such as executives, sales, support or legal.
  • roadmapA high-level plan that shows what a product team intends to work on over the coming months or quarters, and why, without detailing every task.
  • cross-functional teamA team made up of people with different skills, such as product, design, engineering and data, who work together toward the same product goal.

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