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This has been my experience, along with most great product leaders I’ve known have been “promoted” from developers/engineering as opposed to from the business end. Most devs/engineers I know also don’t want to take on this responsibility because they would rather be developing rather than overseeing product development.

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I find that it is enough to have an engineering background.

Someone who grasps why simply adding a new button on the frontend might require a week of backend work because of prior decisions.

I would love this role and have had the chance to act in it. I'm quite adept at it but I do not want to be thrown into a business or domain that I don't know. It's like asking me to invest in a company or industry that I'm not an expert at. I need to be a a dev that just crushes stories for a while so that I can observe and learn about the business. I can sense the fear and imposter syndrome in people who have never been a dev and who don't really know the business. They are dead weight, and nobody wants to be dead weight.

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