Product management - Role
Individual Contributor
(IC)
A role focused on doing specialist work directly without responsibility for managing a team
What's it for?
Describes a specialist role where the person does the work directly rather than managing other people.
For example…
A senior software engineer remains an IC, spending most of their time designing and building systems rather than managing staff
A data analyst can progress to a highly senior IC role with more technical responsibility without becoming a people manager