Yes. Fundamentally product manager is a generalist role that spans across disciplines. These roles are always hard to fill because they don't have a standard te

Yes. Fundamentally product manager is a generalist role that spans across disciplines. These roles are always hard to fill because they don't have a standard template. Moreover, at the point when an organization attempts to formalize such a role, the culture has likely reached a point where people don't even know what they ought to be looking for in the first place. We frequently assume that if someone has no specialty then they must be a generalist. There is the freshly minted MBAs who did a two year consulting stint out of school who is familiar with many topics though they are clearly not an expert. There is the person with a degree in the humanities who claims that they are a generalist just because they can't do math and never tried to learn javascript. There is the engineer who is not very talented and tries to push their way into management since they are great at scheduling meetings when everyone else was too busy doing the actual work. This is not to say that an MBA or an MFA are not great degrees. It is simply to say that they are not enough on their own. One needs to actually do things - a lot of things. Real generalists developed their skill set through their own hard work over a long period of time.