Selecting the Right Product Managers
Hiring is one of the toughest challenges any company can face, either large enterprises or new startups. There is a great deal of know-how kind of experience when hiring a Product Manager, not all companies have the right processes that can warrant best hires.
At SupportFinity, we streamlined our processes and in-house standards to make sure of having one of the top world-class hiring processes. The magic mix of skills ingredients is what separates a great hire from a not-so-good one. We came to this conclusion through consulting top technical and HR experts in addition to our years of work and exposure with most sophisticated projects across almost all tech verticals and areas of expertise. So you get one of the best recruitment processes to hire a Product Manager.
As we have created and crafted a unique method of teams’ customization, we have also perfected our signature model of matching the right skills for our customers to hire either one Product Manager or a team of Product Managers. We have a long lasting belief in the power of data analytics in creating unmatchable results, thus, we apply our analytical models on our hiring process same as we do in our business model.
Product Manager Job Description Template
Product Manager
AKA: Technical Product Manager
The Responsibilities of a Product Manager includes developing products through market research. They then combine those findings with general requirements, specifications, timetables, pricing and plans to complete development and marketing strategies
- Maintains responsibility for tracking key metrics across a portfolio of IT Learning products and services.
- The Product Manager determines product pricing by utilizing market research data, reviewing service and sales costs;specifying volume, and customized orders
- Manages the existing vendor partners and suppliers in terms of course delivery logistics and monitoring of service-level agreements.
- The Product Manager evaluates potential suppliers using developed and agreed criteria to support alignment and understanding of the expectations.
- The Product Manager monitors and report on the performance of selected vendors to ensure delivery in line with contractual obligations and performance metrics
- Manages outward communication to vendors to facilitate understanding and awareness of organizational strategic direction.
- Manages the interaction between vendors and internal program delivery leaders to provide adequate visibility of interdependent initiatives.
- Manages the balance in vendor relationships to support the achievement of agreed commercial outcomes.
- Enough years of product management experience in a startup environment.
- Strong organizational skills, excellent written and oral communication skills, with technical and non-technical cross-functional teams.
- Experience in high-level business discussions, Able to handle executive level discussions and can present in a large crowd.
- Organize and control account to ensure to meet all sales target and carry out their responsibilities to the required standards.
- With working knowledge of enterprise product setup and basic knowledge of databases.
- Highly motivated to be develop teams and manage ongoing performance of direct reports.
- Stay “hungry” and keep abreast with latest technology trend on how it can improve experience of our client.
- Experience conceptualizing, evaluating, and negotiating 3rd party strategic partnerships. .
We know that communication starts from speaking common languages, thus we put this aspect as a first factor in our selection process, we do not proceed with hiring for Product Manager before making sure that the candidate passes the language ability tests first.
The ability of self-explanation ( writing – speaking )
The ability of describing problems structurally and technically ( writing & speaking)
The ability of explaining ideas, situations and problems ( reading, writing & speaking)
This part mainly measures the logical, numerical and analytical aptitude of each candidate, top ones are the only ones we select for next stages.
We have a set of interview tests that measure the agreeability levels of each candidate for
Product Manager, we do so as we believe that likability of any person starts from the ability
to achieve high levels of agreeability without compromising critical thinking.
We also measure the creativity side of the Product Manager you look for, where we see when and how each
candidate can apply out-of-the-box and innovative ways of fixing problems or creating new solutions.
Some people can do well when working on their own, some others cannot!
Knowing this matters a lot when hiring a Product Manager with regard to the team size needed.
Remote work needs a special level of team work skills, so we make sure that your Product Manager can adapt and work well with your team
and be quickly part of it if needed.
We care about hiring someone who can deliver, create and perform the way you expect
with passion and enthusiasm.
We assess our people’s technical abilities on the merits of achievements more
than anything else.
Hiring the right Product Manager is an uneasy decision, we consider
measing the actual technical skills of each candidate.
Having a great resume
is just the start for us, we select candidates know what they say
they know!
We conduct advanced technical tests to make sure we cover the needed knowledge your
Product Manager needs to have to excel for your business.
We weigh academic qualifications as well, we also request our full time employees to submit their education evidence as a major hiring rule to follow. We believe having the right academic qualifications can make a great difference, especially in advanced science based areas like electronic design, engineering planning...etc.
One important metric for us is the ability of your Product Manager to learn new skills, so we make sure that we select people who are only dynamic and willing to learn new ones.
Get in touch
Our team will be always happy to speak with you.
Frequently asked questions
