Building Better Tech: The Product Manager's Role in Infrastructure & Platform Engineering by Vimeo VP of Product.pdf
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This document discusses the role of product managers in platform and infrastructure engineering. It outlines how product managers of platforms can align technical decisions to business metrics, mediate conflicts, and improve productivity by managing priorities and protecting engineers from distractions. Taking on product management for platforms can lead to more technically interesting work, broader impact, and higher pay compared to feature teams. The document encourages engineering teams without product managers to adopt the role to help communicate strategies and tie efforts to goals.
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- 1. Building Better Tech: The Product Manager's Role in Infrastructure & Platform Engineering by Vimeo VP of Product productschool.com
- 2. Accelerate your Product Management Career Certifications Product Manager Certification™ Product Leader Certification™ productschool.com/online
- 3. Team Training Level Up Your Team’s Product Management Skills productschool.com
- 4. Resources Free Product Management Resources Events Courses Podcasts Newsletters Communities eBooks and Reports productschool.com/resources
- 5. Building Better Tech: The Product Manager’s Role in Infrastructure & Platform Engineering Justin Kim
- 6. About Me
- 7. Engineering Platform & Infrastructure Technologies that power a company’s products and services Platforms on which others build, test, and deploy software (e.g., backend systems for media playback) Platforms that run elements of the customer experience (e.g., payments) Platforms that are part of the company’s offering (e.g., AWS)
- 8. Roles & Specialization Platform teams who do not have product managers find engineers and engineering managers doing any of the following: ● Communicating and internally “selling” broader architecture and infrastructure improvement projects. ● Aligning efforts to broader company strategies (such as to company-level OKRs). ● Tying technical decisions to quantitative business metrics. ● Mediating conflicts of the frequent kind.
- 9. Product Management Product Management for Customer-Facing Products and Features Images from The Phantom Tollbooth • Know your customer • Develop a product vision • Build a roadmap • Launch solutions Product Management for Platform & Infrastructure • Know your customer • Develop a product vision • Build a roadmap • Launch solutions
- 10. Building Trust on Strong Engineering Teams Quick wins to start Lean on your strengths Take on tasks no one wants to do Develop a project intake process Manage the backlog Provide air cover to any and all distractions, executive or otherwise
- 11. Results + Improve productivity as engineers spend more time coding and less time in meetings + Higher return on investment as engineers deliver on the most impactful initiatives and less time on interruptions and distractions
- 12. A Horse For Every Course Product management for feature teams can be interesting… …but beware the dark side! Product management for engineering platform teams can be: ● More technically complex (i.e., more interesting!) ● Broader impact ● Higher paying!
- 13. Thank you!
- 14. Part-time Product Management Training Courses and Team Training productschool.com