If you look at the end, you’ll see the letter was signed by an “Assistant Product Manager.” In tech we might call that position “Junior Product Owner” or “Techn

If you look at the end, you’ll see the letter was signed by an “Assistant Product Manager.” In tech we might call that position “Junior Product Owner” or “Technical Product Manager.” It’s exactly the position I’d expect to either have the answers, or have good enough relations with engineering to get the answers. My dad had various Plant Manager and Production Superintendent roles at Goodyear for many years. He could tell you exactly how each machine the factory operated, and why, and what the functional tradeoffs were of different designs. He had a Master’s in engineering, which again is a common path to this sort of role even in tech — join as a capable engineer, learn the product and industry, and somewhere along the way learn that you have either talent or interest in management or communication.