From one piece Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026) 13 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think this is the best time in the world to be a PM. I think it's super exciting. I am an optimist and I think we'll all be here 10 years from now.
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Probably nobody has yet figured out how to measure the outcomes of AI-assisted product work.Their words
I'll be honest, we haven't figured it out. I don't think anyone has figured it out.
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An AI-skills index should guide development and not be the career ladder, which is about outcomes for customers.Their words
And this is not a ladder. This is for development. So that you have a northstar on the skills that you need to be developing because of course this changes all the time. The ladder is about outcomes and what you produce for your customer.
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When I talk to people at startups, they tell me hire people that are AI native. Well, we have a lot of PMs already who are amazing PMs at Atlassian. So, we want them to become AI native.
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And all of this works if all the AI tools understand the context of your organization.
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The right environment for prototyping is key to getting a prototype into engineers' hands faster.Their words
So having the right environment for prototyping is key of getting it faster into the engineers hands.
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Product managers should build an agent to write their weekly reports instead of writing them by hand.Their words
I hope most of you are not writing weekly reports by hand anymore. And if you are, you probably don't want to admit it, but please go and write build an agent to do it.
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Whether a product manager should write code or steer the team depends on the type of product and the phase it is in.Their words
So we've done a bunch of experiments. We've organized teams in different ways, measured outputs, and the answer that we have come to is it depends. It depends what type of product it is. It depends on what phase in the product it is.
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Well the PM used to be the person taking notes in meetings, following up on action items, communicating with go to market when things are going to launch. They don't have to do that anymore. We have tools that can do that.
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And the answer is you don't. So, I don't think anybody could. But the tip is that everything that you read on X, don't believe. You have to figure out what's actually working for your customers.
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A product manager's job is the same as it always was: finding product-market fit and building products people love.Their words
So the job of a PM is really the same as it always was. What is your job? It's to find product market fit. It's to build products that people love.
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The AI builder is a real job: some startups now hire builders instead of product managers or designers.startupsdesignproduct managementhiring
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And the AI builder job is real. There are startups that are not hiring PMs or not hiring designers. They are hiring builders.
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As we said, the roles are overlapping, but they are also expanding.