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Well, they finally got me. After seven years building products at eBay, Kayak, and most recently a company that just discovered private equity, I got the 15-minute calendar invite from a skip-level I’d never spoken to. You know the one.

This is the first episode of Tech Bro Confidential — not a place for Festivus styled grievances, but not quite a LinkedIn inspirational post either. Just the honest and occasionally profane truth about what it actually means to be a content designer inside product organizations that may or may not know what content design is.

In this episode: what the role actually requires, the internal politics nobody posts about and a VP who told me during a kickoff meeting we’d ‘do text later.’

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