EMERGING ROLES IN TECH

The Four Types of Product Operations Roles You’ll Encounter

Wafic El-Assi
5 min readJul 6, 2021

“Product Operations” is a nascent but fast-growing field. What is it, and what skills does it require?

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I first heard of Product Operations (POps) when I joined Uber in 2019. The product operations function was kicked off at Uber back in 2015 by Blake Samic. As the Uber machine scaled globally, a…

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Wafic El-Assi

Product at Uber, BizOps at Skillful, UrbanTech enthusiast