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At a consulting firm I worked with a product guy who I thought was very good, and was on the project pretty much from the beginning (maybe the beginning, not sure. He predated me by well over a year at least). He was extremely knowledgeable on the business side and their needs and spent a lot of time communicating with them to get a good feel of where the product needed to go.

But he was also technical enough to have a pretty good feel for the complexity of tasks, and would sometimes jump in to help figure out some docker configuration issues or whatever problems we were having (mostly devops related) so the devs could focus on working on the application code. We were also a pretty small team, only a few developers, so that was beneficial.

He did such a good job that the business eventually reached out to him and hired him directly. He's now head of two of their product lines (one of them being the product I worked on).

But that's pretty much it. I can't think of any other product people I could say such positive things about.

>>cables+(OP)
It's rare, and that makes it a spectacular leg up when you have a person who is great at it.