If you’re a great product manager, you know how it feels to have the weight of the world on your shoulders.

It’s a job full of trade-offs, endless meetings, customer calls, late nights and early mornings. Working with developers is hard enough. Add customers into the mix – and you’ve got one of the toughest jobs in the company.

That’s what makes Product Management unique. It’s one of the few roles that thinks deeply about the inner workings of your business while regularly interfacing externally with users.

Here are our favorite memes to remind you how absurdly hard, fun, and genuinely awesome this job is.

I know PMs who have been promoted for less. But all jokes aside, how many times have you asked engineering for an update this week?

“Just put a chatbot in it” has been the prevailing advice for the past few years.

Did you spend a full quarter integrating AI into your application?

How’s that working out for you?

If you look this good on day 120, then more power to you!

How many times have you been pulled into this situation by a Sales Engineer? The truth is, some customer environments just can’t handle how awesome your product is.

A great product demo is like a movie trailer – it’s supposed to get you in the door. What happens after that it is out of your hands. Thats why we have Customer Success, and they get their own memes.

PMs – don’t fall into the trap of creating great recorded demos just to have the product fall apart. It’s tempting to make a flashy video, but try building something that can be demo’d live reliably.

PMs – don’t worry about robots taking your job. You’ll always have a better relationship with your company. If you think you’re at risk of being replaced by AI, then you’re just not PMing hard enough.

Feeling left out? Don’t. A great Product Management team is always visible. Your sales team knows how hard you work. Customers know it too.

You don’t always need the recognition to earn the respect. Just keep doing what you’re doing.

OK maybe there is a strong argument for pre-recorded demos.

Okay, but who hasn’t done this? 

The holiday party is a sacred gathering where the humans selling the product and the aliens building it finally meet and exchange grievances.

Ok listen, the roadmap is fluid. It’s always evolving and changing. You just need to be willing to adapt. And also maybe find a way to go back in time and not promise that feature.

Honesty is honestly the best policy. You can sell the roadmap, just remember to actually deliver on it.

Demos are tough. It happens to the best of us.

PMs know – you might have a ton of competitors, imitators, and duplicators. But there’s nothing like the original.

Product Managers have a hard job. You’re constantly thinking about strategy. Execution. Design. Development.

You work with engineering, sales, and leadership. You’re constantly trying to balance vision, scope, and reality. Setting expectations and still trying not to disappoint anyone. Only for a feature to get deprioritized… again.

And no matter what, when something goes wrong with the product, they’re looking to you for advice.

That’s how much you matter to the team. Never forget that.