What prompted me to the ask the question: 1. With the hiring binge in 2022, there is an enormous imbalance in supply and demand. Currently, the PM job market is relatively dead compared to SWE or AI engineers 2. Late stage startups are in efficiency mode i.e., less focus on growth and more on cash preservation 3. FAANGs are laying off still and getting rid of unsustainable products 4. With AI, productivity of PMs have increased. So, relatively less need for PMs 5. PM function is becoming increasingly specialized 6. Airbnb has pivoted PM function to align more towards marketing. There is still lot of uncertainty what exactly this means. But, this post is not regarding that. This is one of the many reasons This made me thinking what is the future of product management. What parallel can this field draw for comparison in terms of evolution of the role. I am curious to hear thoughts from PMs with experience levels and titles how they are approaching this period of uncertainty.
Airbnb split product management into marketing and platform management. Platform is more technical.
The role didn’t disappear. It’s called differently but people do the same work.
How long at meta? What are seeing within meta? Are they hiring for more PMs or proportionally to engineers
My 3 cents - 1. In the next 10 years, at a leadership level, there will be 1 person doing the EM/PM/Design Lead role. I am speaking about people at the manager level across streams. 2. The pyramid of the PM hierarchy will become more and more narrower. Fewer people will be required in middle management. 3. Domain expertise, even in PM jobs, will be essential. Very few domain change opportunities will exist across companies.
+1 AI has done nothing for me