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Clearer terms regarding Product Leadership and Product Leadership Team

Brian Rhea requested to merge change-product-leadership-terminology into master

Why is this change being made?

This section of the Product Leadership page in the handbook is difficult to understand:

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Proposed changes

  • Change h2 from Product Leaders to Product Leaders and Directors
  • Add an h3 header and section for the @gl-product-leadership tier
  • Revise the "Product Leadership Team" header to refer to this tier as "Product Directorship"
  • Change @gl-product-plt to @gl-product-directorship
  • Change h2 "General Product Organizational Structure" to "Product Organization" (not seen in screenshot)

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Group membership

For reference, members of these groups can be seen here:

  • @gl-product-leadership (19 members)
  • @gl-product-plt (13 members)
  • The following are members of -leadership and not -plt
    • Carolyn Braza
    • Fabian Zimmer
    • Jennifer Garcia
    • Kevin Chu
    • Melissa Ushakov
    • Sarah Waldner
  • There are no members of -plt who are not also members of -leadership

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Edited by Brian Rhea

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