Evan Queitsch, CSPO’s Post

It is so important to make the RIGHT hire when you go to market to fill a Product Management vacancy. Product Managers come with different backgrounds, specialisms, strengths and weaknesses, etc.; choosing the right one is not easy. Make the wrong hire and the cost to the company can run into millions of $$$. But it doesn't mean that searching for the right person should take months and months either. I've been tracking some companies who have been looking for 4-5 months and still haven't found the right person! This is way too long especially when you factor in the onboarding and the ramp-up time too! At Producto, we move quickly to help our customers fill niche product roles in less than 30 days. We support customers to help them define their hiring needs and present highly qualified candidates that meet their requirements which minimizes the risk of a wrong hire happening. To date, we've never had to make a replacement hire for any of our customers. Whether it's a CPO or Senior Growth PM role, we have a track record in unearthing the RIGHT product talent our customers need to help their businesses thrive. DM me and let's talk about how we can help you make the RIGHT hire. #hiring #recruitment #productmanagement

Jamie Beckett from Holley just posted for a Senior Product Manager opening on their team. I am going to start posting less product manager roles on LinkedIn and start moving these posts over to Skool and this is because I am getting blown up by hiring managers telling me to stop posting jobs they are posting on LinkedIn. This didn’t make any sense to me until I started speaking with more hiring managers about how their inbox is blown up with just horrible messages. My mission is to help as many aspiring and experience product managers land their next product manager role, but y’all have to help me out by sending better messages. Sending a generic, “I am interested” or “I applied” or “did you get my application” offers no value and it won’t help you land your next product manager job. If anything it’s only leaving a negative or at best forgettable impression to somebody who just might be your future boss. So do yourself a favor and steal my message templates in Skool, follow up, and have real conversations with hiring managers. The biggest mistakes product managers are making beyond sending out bad messages is not following up. There is reason why we have included 8 follow up slots on the Airtable and that because you NEED to follow up with your applications. You already spent the time applying so you might as well maximize your list until you get a definitive rejection, because you are only one application and one interview away from landing your next product manager role. PS Stop overlooking the smaller companies and apply to them. Seriously! I usually get 3,000 to 6,000+ impressions when I post a product manager job for a bigger company; but I only get 900 impressions when I post for roles at companies nobody has heard of. There is nothing wrong with those companies and I challenge you to interview with them. God knows you need the practice. If you want other people to give you a shot, then you need to give companies a shot too. You want hiring teams to start treating you like a like human instead of a number, then stop applying and interview for product managers like they are another number. Your vibe attracts your tribe. #ProductManagement  #WhatBadEconomy #GameHasBeenElevated #EverybodyIsOutOnTheTake

I have been reviewing a lot of Product Manager resumes and notice that many of them never address the key points that someone hiring for product roles is first looking for: • Where did you work? • What products or product areas did you work on? • What were the results? Make sure these are clear before launching into talking about roadmapping and running delivery.

When you're considering hiring a new product manager, my favorite hack to figure out what kind of product manager to hire is using Marty Cagan's interview question from Empowered. It outlines four types of product managers - 1. Those who are super creative and great and finding novel solutions to problems. 2. Those who are able to maximize a team, given resource constraints, and still find ways to get things done. 3. Those who are very strategic - ie, you can find the best path to win. 4. Those who are very execution driven, and execute with excellence. You ask the product manager to force-rank them, and then ask why they force-ranked them that way. This can give you a ton of insight into how the product manager thinks! Even better if you ask for a situation in which they employed their top strength or had to get help in a situation with their worst skillset. #productmanagement #productmanagementhiring ---- Hi, I'm Anna. I'm a CEO and Co-founder that helps you figure out the best path toward product success in your business and helps you find a fantastic product manager when you're ready to hire. Follow for tips, insight and more!

If your Product Manager vacancy is still open after a few months, you have a problem. If it's been open for 6 months (I've come across a few of these!), what are you doing about it? At Producto, we complete the majority of our Product searches in less than 30 days for our customers! If you take 6+ months to hire you'll be a year behind schedule when you factor in onboarding and the impact the hire will have on the business. There's a cost to the business in terms of $$$ lost through missed opportunities and a cost to the team with other people picking up the slack, burning out, etc. which increases staff turnover. Too many companies are obsessed with having "applicants" and monitoring the wrong metrics that leads to roles sitting open for months and months. Customers who use a specialist like Producto spend less time trying to hire and more time taking their products to market which drives revenue and growth! Hiring should be completed in weeks, not months. DM me or email [email protected] to discuss how we can help you hire the right person quickly. #hiring #recruitment #productmanagement

Candidates have been discouraged by the high number of applicants since the market tides turned in late 2022, however, they might be surprised to know that hiring teams (recruiters, managers, etc) still sift through applications to find who they are looking for. My suggestion to candidates: to keep the format of their resumes simple and focus on the accomplishments of their roles. Avoid colorful and creative resumes which make the short initial review by hiring teams hard and may yield a quick rejection.

Valerie Fletcher from Optum just posted for a Senior Technical Product Manager opening on their team. I am going to start posting less product manager roles on LinkedIn and start moving these posts over to Skool and this is because I am getting blown up by hiring managers telling me to stop posting jobs they are posting on LinkedIn. This didn’t make any sense to me until I started speaking with more hiring managers about how their inbox is blown up with just horrible messages. My mission is to help as many aspiring and experience product managers land their next product manager role, but y’all have to help me out by sending better messages. Sending a generic, “I am interested” or “I applied” or “did you get my application” offers no value and it won’t help you land your next product manager job. If anything it’s only leaving a negative or at best forgettable impression to somebody who just might be your future boss. So do yourself a favor and steal my message templates in Skool, follow up, and have real conversations with hiring managers. The biggest mistakes product managers are making beyond sending out bad messages is not following up. There is reason why we have included 8 follow up slots on the Airtable and that because you NEED to follow up with your applications. You already spent the time applying so you might as well maximize your list until you get a definitive rejection, because you are only one application and one interview away from landing your next product manager role. PS Stop overlooking the smaller companies and apply to them. Seriously! I usually get 3,000 to 6,000+ impressions when I post a product manager job for a bigger company; but I only get 900 impressions when I post for roles at companies nobody has heard of. There is nothing wrong with those companies and I challenge you to interview with them. God knows you need the practice. If you want other people to give you a shot, then you need to give companies a shot too. You want hiring teams to start treating you like a like human instead of a number, then stop applying and interview for product managers like they are another number. Your vibe attracts your tribe. #ProductManagement  #WhatBadEconomy #GameHasBeenElevated #EverybodyIsOutOnTheTake

Finding the perfect product manager for your team can often feel daunting, much like searching for a needle in a haystack. 🪡 However, the right approach and understanding make finding that needle much more manageable. Our years in hiring within the product management market have helped our teams understand the key traits that distinguish a great product manager and how to attract them to the most suitable role. Here, we'll share a few of those insights with you... #productmanagers #productmanagerhiring #recruitingproduct #recruitingtips

Molli Sanocki from LexisNexis just posted for a Senior Director Product Management opening on their team. I am going to start posting less product manager roles on LinkedIn and start moving these posts over to Skool and this is because I am getting blown up by hiring managers telling me to stop posting jobs they are posting on LinkedIn. This didn’t make any sense to me until I started speaking with more hiring managers about how their inbox is blown up with just horrible messages. My mission is to help as many aspiring and experience product managers land their next product manager role, but y’all have to help me out by sending better messages. Sending a generic, “I am interested” or “I applied” or “did you get my application” offers no value and it won’t help you land your next product manager job. If anything it’s only leaving a negative or at best forgettable impression to somebody who just might be your future boss. So do yourself a favor and steal my message templates in Skool, follow up, and have real conversations with hiring managers. The biggest mistakes product managers are making beyond sending out bad messages is not following up. There is reason why we have included 8 follow up slots on the Airtable and that because you NEED to follow up with your applications. You already spent the time applying so you might as well maximize your list until you get a definitive rejection, because you are only one application and one interview away from landing your next product manager role. PS Stop overlooking the smaller companies and apply to them. Seriously! I usually get 3,000 to 6,000+ impressions when I post a product manager job for a bigger company; but I only get 900 impressions when I post for roles at companies nobody has heard of. There is nothing wrong with those companies and I challenge you to interview with them. God knows you need the practice. If you want other people to give you a shot, then you need to give companies a shot too. You want hiring teams to start treating you like a like human instead of a number, then stop applying and interview for product managers like they are another number. Your vibe attracts your tribe. #ProductManagement  #WhatBadEconomy #GameHasBeenElevated #EverybodyIsOutOnTheTake

So these two homies over here not naming names just called me out because they don't think I know the difference between product management and product marketing. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Sirs... I know they are two different roles, but product managers need to learn how to be more flexible in today's market. We had somebody in our program land an AI Program Manager role this year and is it the same as product management? No! Is there a whole bunch of overlap? Heck yeah. Solving complex problems, dealing with difficult people, and delivering impossible results within unreasonable timelines is what product managers do. You two rockstars worked at a lot of awesome companies, so you most likely have no clue how brutal the market has been for product management job hunters and the rift the tech recession has done to regular product managers who just want to work. People are struggling to land interviews and jobs because hiring managers LIKE YOURSELVES don't know what they know want, give people the run around, ghost people for weeks on end, and leave them hanging in the friend zone without a rejection email or an offer letter. There is no accountability or even the most basic level of professionalism from the hiring side and that needs to stop. Amazing how I get praised by product manager job hunters and trolled from product management hiring managers. All this just fuels me to fight harder for the people still on the job hunt. PS Don't let people bring you down. You can do anything! 7 years ago I was laughed at when I told people I was starting Product Gym, in New York of all places (those Bay Area elites laughed at New York), and I was going to bootstrap the whole thing. Haters are going to hate..... #productmanagement #productmanagementjobs #productmanagementcareers #productmanagementtransition #productgym #speedtolead