You hire people who think. CVs do not show thinking. Take-homes optimise for the wrong thing. We screen, assess, and interview against a rubric that knows the difference between framed a problem and shipped a feature. You meet three product people. You pick one.

"I read seventy-eight PM CVs last week. Every single one mentioned shipping a feature at scale. None of them told me how they actually think."

"We did three rounds with one candidate before realising she could not frame a problem. That is a us problem, not a candidate problem."

"Designers send portfolios. I need to know if they can frame a problem, not polish a pixel. The portfolio review keeps failing me."

The most important PM signal. We probe with an unfamiliar problem and listen to how the candidate decomposes it. We score the decomposition, not the eventual answer.

Limited resources, conflicting stakeholders, real trade-offs. We score the reasoning, not the verdict. Sit-on-the-fence answers lose points.

Have they actually talked to users? How recently? What did they learn that surprised them? Specifics or it did not happen.

The signal is specific examples of conflict resolution with engineering and design. "I love working with teams" loses points.

Can they zoom in to a metric definition and zoom out to a quarterly bet, in the same conversation, without losing the thread?

Hard filters from your post: domain, seniority, location, working pattern. Done first, before the model spends any time on the candidate.

184

PM applicants screened

87%

top-3 conversion to interview

33h

median time from post to shortlist

4.2h

median time you spend hiring

"I used to spend two days reading PM CVs to find one worth interviewing. Picked surfaced three candidates I would have missed on paper. I hired one."

"We finally stopped doing the 'how would you improve our product' interview. The scenario Picked runs is harder, fairer, and tells me more in 30 minutes than three rounds used to."

"Our last designer hire took six weeks of take-home. The Picked interview captured the same signal in half an hour. The shortlist felt like my taste, played back to me."

"I told the rubric what mattered. It listened. By the fourth role the shortlists felt like my taste, played back to me."