The best subreddits for product managers
Product management is a smaller corner of Reddit than marketing or investing, so this list is short on purpose. Here are the communities we think are actually worth your time, plus where each one fits.
Set your expectations first
Before the roster, one honest framing point. Product management is a real but comparatively small community on Reddit. If you have spent time in the marketing or investing corners, you have seen dozens of large, busy subreddits feeding off each other. PM does not look like that. There is one clear center of gravity and then a handful of adjacent communities — agile delivery, scrum, and UX — that PMs drift into for specific problems.
That means this list is deliberately short. We would rather name four communities we can stand behind than pad the count with subs that are dead, off-topic, or hostile to the role. Every subreddit below is one we picked on purpose, and we tell you what each is actually for.
A note on sizes. Subscriber counts on Reddit are slippery — they include long-dormant accounts, they update at different cadences across tools, and public sources frequently disagree. So every size below is hedged on purpose. Treat them as rough order-of-magnitude signals of how busy a place is, not precise figures.
The roster
These are the four we recommend. We deliberately left several near-misses off — see the caveats below for why.
How to read the roster
r/ProductManagement is the one you should start with and the one you will keep coming back to. It is the closest thing to a town square for the role: people post about breaking into PM, scoping work, working with engineering, dealing with stakeholders, and surviving interviews. If you only follow one community from this page, follow that one.
r/agile and r/scrum are about delivery method rather than the PM role itself, but PMs live in that world daily. r/agile is the broader of the two — it covers scrum, kanban, and lean as a family of practices, and the discussion is often about what actually works versus what the textbook says. r/scrum is narrower and more framework-focused, which makes it useful when your question is specifically about ceremonies, the scrum master relationship, or certifications.
r/UXDesign is the adjacent community we trust for the design side. A lot of product work is really about the boundary between PM and design, and reading how designers talk about research, handoff, and prioritization gives you a sharper sense of how your counterparts think. It is the larger and more active of the UX communities, which is why we point you there.
Honest caveats
A few things we want to be straight about so you do not waste time.
- This niche is small. There is no deep bench of large PM subreddits the way there is for marketing or investing. If the four above feel like a short list, that is the honest shape of the topic, not us cutting corners.
- Sizes are approximate. Every figure here is hedged because public subscriber counts disagree and include dormant accounts. Use them as a rough sense of activity, nothing more.
- We left out r/userexperience on purpose. It is small (roughly 11K, approx) and overshadowed by the larger, more active r/UXDesign — so we send you to the latter instead.
- We left out r/ExperiencedDevs on purpose too. It is a senior-engineering community, off-topic for the PM role, and the engineers there are frequently critical of product managers — not a comfortable or useful home base for PM questions.
- r/SaaS is worth a mention as an adjacent space if you work on a product business, but go in knowing it is founder- and marketing-skewed rather than a PM-craft community. Useful for go-to-market and pricing chatter, less so for the discipline of product management itself.
- Reading a sub and researching it are different jobs. Skimming threads gives you a feel; pulling a defensible read on what a whole community actually struggles with is a separate, slower task.
Getting more than a vibe out of these communities
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Start with the core, then fan out
Read r/ProductManagement first to anchor on the role, then dip into r/agile, r/scrum, and r/UXDesign when a specific delivery or design question pulls you there.
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Pick a real question, not a topic
A topic like prioritization is too broad to read for. A question like where do PMs say roadmap prioritization actually breaks down gives you something to look for and lets you tell a recurring pattern from a one-off rant.
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Read across threads, not within one
A single thread is an anecdote. The signal is in what shows up again and again across many threads — the same complaint, the same workaround, the same tool named in passing.
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Note tools and willingness to pay
Pay attention to when people say they pay for something, switched away from something, or wish a thing existed. Those moments are where real demand hides, and they are easy to miss when you are scrolling casually.
When manual reading stops scaling
Reading a handful of these communities by hand is the right way to start, and for a lot of questions it is enough. The trouble comes when you want a structured, repeatable read across several subreddits at once — when you are trying to answer something concrete and need every claim tied back to a real thread you can open and check.
That is the gap rawneed is built for. You write a plain-English question — say, what do product managers complain about most when it comes to stakeholder alignment — and it gathers the relevant Reddit threads, classifies them by the kind of signal each one carries (pain, willingness to pay, sentiment, the tools people mention), and hands back a ranked report. Every line links to the source thread, so you can confirm it yourself rather than taking the summary on faith. It is self-serve, and it is meant to complement your own reading, not replace your judgment.
See exactly how the read is built
We are deliberately plain about what rawneed does and does not claim. If you want to understand how a question turns into a ranked, source-linked report — and where the limits are — the methodology page lays it out in full.
Read the methodologyFrequently asked questions
What is the best subreddit for product managers?
r/ProductManagement is the core community and the one to start with. It covers PM career questions, frameworks, execution, and interviews across all levels, from people breaking into the role to senior PMs. The others on this page are adjacent — agile, scrum, and UX — and worth following for specific problems rather than as a home base.
Are there many subreddits for product managers?
Not really, and that is worth knowing up front. Product management is a smaller corner of Reddit than fields like marketing or investing. There is one clear central community and a few adjacent ones around delivery and design. A short, curated list reflects the honest shape of the topic rather than a lack of effort.
Is r/agile or r/scrum better for a product manager?
They serve different needs. r/agile is the broader community covering scrum, kanban, and lean delivery as a family of practices, so it is a better general read. r/scrum is narrower and framework-specific — go there when your question is specifically about scrum ceremonies, the scrum master relationship, or certifications.
Should product managers read UX subreddits?
Yes, if you work closely with design. r/UXDesign is the larger and more active UX community, and reading how designers discuss research, handoff, and prioritization sharpens your sense of how your design counterparts think. We recommend r/UXDesign over smaller UX subs.
How do I find what product managers complain about on Reddit?
You can read across many threads in r/ProductManagement and the adjacent communities, looking for the same pain showing up repeatedly rather than relying on any single post. If you want a structured, repeatable version of that, a tool like rawneed takes a plain-English question, gathers the relevant threads, classifies the signal, and returns a ranked report with every claim linked to its source.
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