The tension between experienced product managers and industry experts
<p>I recently put out a poll where I asked people a simple question: <em>Given the choice of two otherwise identical Product Manager candidates, which would you prefer, the one with more PM experience, or the one with more related industry experience?</em></p>
<p>Overwhelmingly, product leaders (VP of Product, CPO, Director of Product, etc.) preferred the candidate with more product management experience. Everyone else (including non-product management executives) preferred the one with more industry experience. I don’t exactly know what this disparity means, but what I’ve felt in most of the organizations I’ve been in is that non-product management professionals don’t value the expertise product managers bring to the table, and see us as more of a communication function than a knowledge/strategic center. I don’t know why that is, but I have a few theories.</p>
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