Overview
Startups often require employees to take on multiple roles, and one such combination is for an engineer to take on product management functions. In this talk, you will learn what a product engineer role looks like, why you should be a product engineer, and how to become one. I will discuss why product engineers are an invaluable asset to an early-stage startup, and how having product engineers result in better products and happier developers. This talk relates my experience over the last eight years in the trenches of early-stage startups, as a founder, and most recently as a product engineer at Coach.me.
Objective
Learn how product engineers can benefit your organization, and how to become a product engineer.
Target Audience
Software engineers who work or want to work at a startup, founders, engineering managers.
Five things audience members will learn
- What the product engineer role is
- Why this role is essential in a startup
- The benefits of having product engineers
- How to leverage product engineers in your organization
- Key skills to become a product engineer
