Satya Nadella says LinkedIn merged four job titles, product manager, designer, front-end engineer a…

Satya Nadella says LinkedIn merged four job titles, product manager, designer, front-end engineer and back-end engineer, into one: "I'll give you at LinkedIn, we used to have product managers, we had designers, we had front-end engineers, and then we had back-end engineers and so on." "So what we did is we sort of took those first four roles and combined them. In fact, increased scope and said, they're all full-stack builders." "So at the same time, as you can imagine, if we're to build an AI product today, there's a complete new workflow, right? It starts with evals, right?" "So basically, there's this eval to science, to infrastructure." "And so evals are done by these full-stack builders and what have you and product managers in the new form, the infrastructure is built by the systems engineers at the back-end because they support the science that supports the product." "So in some sense, there's a new loop and you have to structurally change." LinkedIn has already put this into hiring. Its Associate Product Manager program is finished, and the replacement, the Associate Product Builder track, teaches code, design and product management at the same time. Evals sit at the front of that workflow rather than the end, so writing them is now part of building the product instead of a check before shipping. - Satya Nadella (@satyanadella), Chairman and CEO of Microsoft (@microsoft), with the All-In Podcast (@theallinpod) at USA House, Davos 2026.