[Closi]

I've been a Product Owner and been responsible for the product strategy, feature roadmap, backlog refinement and management of external stakeholders, reporting up through product leadership.

I've also been in a company that had "Product Managers" and "Product Owners", where "Product Manager" was just a more senior Product Owner, and the "Product Owners" reported into the "Product Managers".

All I mean is that - it's different things in different organisations, and what one company calls Product Owner another company will call Product Manager. If someone takes a job title saying "Product Owner" and expects that to mean they will definitely be reporting up through technical leadership, in the real world I think they will be surprised to find that's quite often not true :)

[fooblat]

This is my experience as well. You must always ask for a detailed description for these roles.

I've even seen companies that have a role called "Product Manager Owner" with a vague enough description that it could be either or both.