Why This Ex-Facebook Engineer Thinks Non-Technical Product Managers Are Awesome (Oh and He’s Hiring)

What Leadership Roles at Facebook & YouTube Taught Rushabh Doshi About Building Product Teams

What do I hope happens when I write a blog post? Lots of people to read it? Sure, I guess. But the dream is really smart responses from folks who can help refine or expand my thinking. So after recently revisiting the question about being a product manager without an engineering background, it was delightful to read feedback from two friends.

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First the original post

Ode to a Non-Technical Product Manager (Revisited)

Then my friend Ben Stern’s (PM at Figma, ex-Dropbox) response

https://medium.com/@Benstern0/as-a-former-sales-guy-turned-pm-i-get-this-question-too-4862e234d734

And now, from my friend and former colleague Rushabh Doshi, who was an engineering leader at YouTube, before taking product and engineering roles at Facebook and now Digit. Copy/paste from the email he sent me this morning: