Key factors for hiring Tech Talent & Senior Executives(especially in Product Tech setups)

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These factors generally help determine candidate persona & competency mapping (especially in Product Tech setups).

  • Technical proficiency fitment. For Executive / Senior level search, say for Chief Product Officer role, the tech skills for a FinTech startup would be expertise in digital payment technologies, agile product development, knowledge of regulatory compliance specific to financial products, with a proven experience of scaling the product from current phase to next phase etc

For a bit junior engineering talent, it would be Tech stack fitment - encompasses all major ones, MERN, MEAN, Java, Data Science, DevOps, QA, Product Design, Product Management etc 

  • Product Mindset & Product Phase Fitment (especially for Product Tech companies, Phases of MVP, Pre-PMF, Post PMF, each phase requires different critical behavior to succeed)  
  • Organizational Phase Fitment (0-1, 1-10, 10-100, 100 & beyond, each phase requires different critical behavior to succeed)
  • Personality Fitment (Motivation, Ambition, Goals, the Why of the candidate)
  • Culture Fitment (Some alignment to core philosophy of setup)