Product marketing or product management? Which is more strategic and less technical at most big tech companies?

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Typically, product management is relatively more strategic and technical than product marketing.

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Pdm also needs solid working knowledge of tech platforms and infrastructure of the product to develop and prioritize the roadmap (not everything is user facing feature development), and sometimes data query chops to mine usage analytics for product optimization and planning

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