Most tech companies break out product management and product marketing into two separate roles: Product management defines the product and gets it built. Product marketing writes the messaging—the facts you want to communicate to customers—and gets the product sold. But from my experience that’s a grievous mistake. Those are, and should always be, one job. There should be no separation between what the product will be and how it will be explained—the story has to be utterly cohesive from the beginning. Your messaging is your product. The story you’re telling shapes the thing you’re making

Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller

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The product manager is the voice of the customer. The person sitting there asking „does this make sense for the customer?“, „are we saying / delivering the right things?“, „are we confusing them?“, „how do our customers considering our product compared to competitors?“. For every single customer touchpoint.

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as well as the founder, the product manager can get technical and that is a problem. Should not delve into how to build, focusing on the customers and the market.

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Building a product is like making a song. The band is composed of marketing, sales, engineering, support, manufacturing, PR, legal. And the product manager is the producer—making sure everyone knows the melody, that nobody is out of tune and everyone is doing their part. They’re the only person who can see and hear how all the pieces are coming tog... See more

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This schism between marketing and product management is still felt in many tech organizations today, where both departments feel they own the customer and understand the marketplace. However, in most tech organizations, marketing has evolved to be more about owning the brand and customer acquisition, while product owns the value proposition and dev

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Most founders think they are great at building product and bad at marketing. When the reality is the story is not the story, the story is the product.

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“the story is the product”

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).

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