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Mentor
A product manager is a far more robust role. You can search “product manager” on LinkedIn or indeed to review a job description.
I’ve looked at the job descriptions, but many jobs involve responsibilities that differ drastically from the job descriptions. I’ve heard some rumors that it’s glorified PMO work, and wanted to seek some input from those with more experience in this space as to whether it was true or not, and what the true responsibilities are.
Coach
Hi, PM here. I work with a dozen software engineers, user researchers, and designers to build software.
I don’t build status reports, but I am accountable for the roadmap.
Reading this book May be informative:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Cracking_the_PM_Interview.html?id=BWCkswEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description
Ima follow this.
You do way more
This gives some insight. It'll vary by company but PM's are responsible for the direction and operations of the product. They decide what features to prioritize and have to think about how decisions on how to build something might impact the product down the line
https://www.google.com/amp/s/hbr.org/amp/2017/12/what-it-takes-to-become-a-great-product-manager
Subject Expert
Far more than PMO. On any given day, I might be talking with my engineering leads about updating the product architecture, grooming the backlog, updating the public roadmap, conducting user research, or sketching out some wireframes for the UX team, and so on.