A Startup’s Secret Weapon: The Product Engineer

Alicia Liu
Counter Intuition
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1 min readJan 16, 2019

Startups often require employees to take on multiple roles, and one such combination is for an engineer to take on product management functions. In this talk, you will learn what a product engineer role looks like, why you should be a product engineer, and how to become one. I will discuss why product engineers are an invaluable asset to an early-stage startup, and how having product engineers result in better products and happier developers. This talk relates my experience over the last eight years in the trenches of early-stage startups, as a founder, and most recently as a product engineer at Coach.me.

2016 AltConf, San Francisco

2015 FITC Web Unleashed, Toronto

2015 InfoShare, Gdansk

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Alicia Liu
Counter Intuition

Wanderer above the sea of fog // programmer beneath the sweat of brow