I did a search yesterday for “data product manager” job ads on LinkedIn. The vast majority of them referenced product background and an interest or basic background in data. I read through at least 20 job ads and came away with the following assessment: companies want a generalized data product manager who can work on anything associated with data. Here’s the reality: data products might have some general principles that apply regardless of customer and domain, but to have a truly impactful product, data product managers
However, they have a distinct advantage - domain knowledge. This is where a domain expert would come in and explain how that industry works the various permutations and combinations and what would be the best way to have the application built.
This is great Eric! Can you shed light on how this role is different from a typical product manager role. I haven’t seen this role in my company before. Is this something new
Amazing article!
The Data Product Management market is really new, specially here in Brazil, and it has been really hard to hire Data Product talents.
However, they have a distinct advantage - domain knowledge. This is where a domain expert would come in and explain how that industry works the various permutations and combinations and what would be the best way to have the application built.
This is great Eric! Can you shed light on how this role is different from a typical product manager role. I haven’t seen this role in my company before. Is this something new