1 min lesson
Non-engineers are a first-class persona
Answer this: "A candidate opens the recruiter screen by describing how they'd run roadmap planning, align stakeholders and write detailed PRDs for the engineers. What does this signal to a Cursor interviewer?"
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When the recruiter asks what you think this role is, lead with building an outcome developers touch, then name the no-process reality. Say you expect to prototype the first version yourself, watch real users hit it and own the launch copy. Candidates who describe writing PRDs and herding engineers signal they read it as a traditional PM job - which is the exact profile this team filters out.
Cursor's stated ICP widened from "professional software engineers" to "professional software engineering teams" - which includes PMs, designers and sales engineers by design. The adoption data backs it up: at some of Cursor's largest customers, 15 to 20% of seats belong to people who aren't engineers. So a PM living in the codebase isn't a fringe hack; it's the persona Cursor is building for.
if you look at some of our largest customers actually like 15 to 20% of Cursor users are not engineers