Atlassian PM leader: In 10,000+ person companies AI expands roles instead of merging them
lennysan · x · 2026-09-29
Atlassian product leader Tamar Yehoshua pushed back at the Lenny & Friends Summit on the idea that AI collapses PM, design, and engineering into one "AI builder" role.
- That convergence can work in a small company, but inside a 10,000+ person organization with complex codebases, heavy dependencies, and hundreds of thousands of customers, roles don't converge — they expand
- The PM job's goals are unchanged: set direction, exercise judgment, hold the quality bar, drive outcomes. What changes is speed and how much PMs can take on
- She shared real examples from inside Atlassian: what's working, what isn't, and what's still being figured out
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