becoming a 'manager' is a bad career move for a lot of people my co-founder was the highest-output engineer on our team until he became head of product Ben is one of the most gifted product and design oriented engineers I've ever come across. no matter what he works on, he'll come back with a final product that is 10x better than what you were anticipating was the best-case outcome he wanted to become head of product, and he was (for about a year). He has all the intangibles to be the…