Man I have to say... from what I've seen over the last 20 years in the industry, this is a very junior-minded position to take. If someone said, "We don't need

Man I have to say... from what I've seen over the last 20 years in the industry, this is a very junior-minded position to take. If someone said, "We don't need UX design," or "We don't need DevOps," they'd be laughed out of the building. It takes a village... takes a collection of talented people working in unison to have a successful product. It's horrendously inefficient for an organization to take away Product Managers. If you want to bring every designer and every developer and ever sales person... and basically your whole company to a meeting to make a decision... maybe you'll get away with cutting the Product Manager role... But there's so much inherent compromise and horse trading as part of every product launch / sprint. Without someone to organize all that, you're going to waste a lot of time and force a lot of highly skilled people to do things that aren't in their wheelhouse. And then... at the end of the day... who is on the hook for strategy? "Oh, hey we built the wrong MVP so I guess we'll sack some of our <rolls the dice...> Visual Designers!" That makes no sense. Any complex system or organization will need a management layer... think of them as lubrication if you want... to help all the different parts move efficiently. The team is responsible for the success of the endeavor, anyone worth keeping in an organization knows how to give praise where it's due... if you have individuals trying to take credit for teamwork... that's an issue you should take up with HR.