EMERGING ROLES IN TECH
The Four Types of Product Operations Roles You’ll Encounter
5 min readJul 6, 2021
“Product Operations” is a nascent but fast-growing field. What is it, and what skills does it require?
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…