"I am interested in the field of Product Management. However, I hear PMs spend most of their time working with Eng/DS, and thus need to be quite technical. Is this actually true? I don’t think of myself as a very technical person, so this keeps me worried."
This is one of the most commonly asked & perhaps the most misunderstood questions about careers in Product Management, in my opinion.
The short & definitive answer to this question is a resounding ‘No’, you absolutely don’t have to be technical to be a successful PM. That being said, there are a lot of nuances worth exploring here.