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THE MODERN PRODUCT MANAGER
It's The Modern Product Manager #59 and this week we're talking about Hiring Great Product Managers.

Over the last 5 years, I've written A LOT about how to break into Product. I've written about:

I've even written about The One Thing I Look For In Every Product Manager Candidate. However, on that last point, hiring great Product Managers, I've written substantially less.

The truth is, there is no perfect Product Manager candidate. In many ways, you're looking for the best fit of the candidate's Product skills to your company's current (and coming) challenges and your company's stage. 
 
How can this candidate help you and your company accelerate as you move towards your goals over the next 2 years?  

Do we need a generalist who can flex between domains or do we need someone who is highly specialized in X?  


Do we need someone who has grown Product organizations and can mentor other PMs or someone who can execute at a very high level as an individual contributor from day 1?

Thinking deeply about questions (and many others) will help you hire more Great Product Managers.

Not just Great, but Great for your company and the challenges that you have today and will have in the near future.  In today's MPM, we'll dig into hiring Product people more and explore several perspectives that will make you more effective in helping grow your Product team.
 

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Never stop building,

Alex

Video of the Week

Use Your Hiring Process to Bring Out the Best in People

Theme: Hiring Great Product People

Take 10 minutes and read these 3 articles to learn how you can hire great Product people.

How to Choose the Right “Product Personalities” for Your Team

When we complain that “it’s hard to hire great product people”, we’re lumping a wide range of skills under the idea of a “product person”.  Should this person be a master at juggling timelines and JIRA tickets? A strategic mind with an eye for a great roadmap? Should she be foremost a product visionary? Or is mentorship the most important skill?
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How to Hire Great Product Managers

Start by agreeing on what you’re looking for in a PM.  Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does.  It’s best to do this with the people who will be working with the PM and interviewing the PM, so that they’ll all be aligned. PMs do best when the team they’re joining really wants them there...

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How To Hire A Stellar Product Manager For Your Startup

Hiring first product people to your startup can be a daunting job. You have built your baby startup from scratch and now you need to hand over the important parts of your business to someone new. How do you know they are the right person? Can you trust them with decisions?  I’ve spent the last ten years of my life building products and product teams...

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From TMPM

The 10 YC Companies (W22) I’d Invest In

The W22 class included: 414 startups, representing 42 (!) different countries, and pitched on 3/28/22 and 3/29/22. Nearly 50% are based outside of the US and New Zealand, Sudan, Uganda, and Costa Rica were represented for the first time.

Despite the growth of the number of YC companies, the accelerator still remains incredibly competitive. YC received more than 17,000 applications for the W22 class, with an acceptance rate of only ~2.4%.

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