Product manager recruitmentClients in the UK, Europe and USA
A product manager works with your engineers every day, and a CV can’t tell you how that will go. We interview every candidate first, so your final round is with people who turn ambiguous problems into clear decisions.
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Product CVs are hard to compare: they all list discovery, roadmaps and stakeholder management. So your head of engineering or CTO ends up reading them too, on top of the day job, because they are the ones who will work with the hire.
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You need CVs that pass engineering’s interview, so you can send a shortlist it trusts. An engineer reads every CV before it reaches you. Fewer CVs, but better ones.
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of HR and recruitment leads who use agencies say the main reason engineering rejects agency candidates is that the CV looked good, but the person couldn’t do the job.
A developer or CTO who works in the stack interviews every candidate. Each of these is a question you would otherwise only answer in your own interview.
Whether they can take an ambiguous problem, prioritise it and say what they would not build, then defend the plan when it is challenged.
Whether they write precisely, define how success will be measured and understand the APIs, integrations and data the work depends on.
Whether they listen to users and engineers, and manage competing priorities without using process as a substitute for judgement.
They know enough about how the product is built to scope work honestly, and ask engineers good questions instead of guessing.
They use AI for research, drafting and analysis, check what it produces, keep confidential customer data out of it and own the decisions.
They say what the evidence shows, what they don’t know yet and when a decision needs more information.
We recruit product managers, technical product managers and product leads. Every candidate is screened on discovery, prioritisation, clear writing and credible collaboration with engineering teams.
Either way you get about 3 to 5 screened CVs a week, per role.
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“Metamindz helped us recruit our now CTO, reviewing CVs as they came in and then putting the CTO through a thorough 90-minute live 360 technical test. Feedback from our now CTO of the test was glowing and comms from Metamindz throughout the entire process were excellent. Highly recommend!”
Rupert Boddington
Co-Founder, Pockla
“Worked with Lev and Max. We worked with MetaMindz to help us interview and assess software engineering candidates. They were professional and great from the outset and throughout, great speed too. Would 100% recommend and we will be working with them again.”
Alexander Bushe
CEO, Fuller Focus
“We found it really easy working with Lev and the team to hire for our lead developer role and despite it still being early days, our new hire is making an impact already!” source
Billy Whiffen
Google review
£5,000
Fixed fee for your first role
15% to 17%
Commission on each further hire
Deep technical interview (Route 2)£300 an hour
A 1.5 to 2 hour live-coding and technical grilling session per final candidate.
All fees exclude VAT.
Tell us about the roleYes. We recruit product managers, technical product managers and product leads, and assess how credibly they work with engineering, including technical scoping, APIs, integrations and data products.
We adapt the interview to the role. It covers how the candidate prioritises an ambiguous problem, how precisely they write, how they would measure success and how they defend a plan when engineering or a founder challenges it.
Past product briefs have included Jira, Linear, Productboard, Notion, Confluence, Miro and Figma, alongside product analytics. We treat tools as context, and the interview focuses on judgement.
We work with companies in the UK, Europe and the USA, and source candidates from a global talent pool, wherever you need to hire from, for remote and location-specific roles.
Give us a few details about the role and your hiring plans. We'll assess your needs and get back to you with a practical next step.
Listed for reference. We use these to scope the brief with you. A keyword on a CV is where screening starts, and the interview decides whether the candidate can do the work.
Teams usually bring us in for: A first product manager joining an engineering-led team. A technical product manager for an API, integration or data product. A product lead for a growing product and engineering team.