Boundaries are a collaboration signal

Interviewers read role-boundary fluency as a proxy for whether you'll be a good teammate on a flat team where lines blur daily. A candidate who can say "here's my charter, here's where I lean on DevRel and growth and here's where I'd push back on a PM" sounds like someone who's done this. A candidate who claims they'd own positioning, content, the funnel and the roadmap sounds like a problem hire.

When the cross-functional panel asks how you work with DevRel or product, answer with a seam and a story: "On my last launch, our DevRel led got the demo in front of the community while I owned the positioning and the post - we co-wrote it so the framing was sharp and the voice was theirs." Naming who owns what, then showing you partnered, beats abstract claims about collaboration.