I used this in my project-based work / consulting engagements, including for Preply. In general, I have helped pick among PM candidates a lot (!). This framework is something appreciated by my client scale-ups and startups.

This is designed to help in hiring generalist PMs.

How many cases you could talk about in this regard, that you led end to end?

Have you mentored people about this aspect? What was their level?

The purpose of this list is to have a complete, ultimate list of skills for a generalist product manager. With this goal in mind, I took all the PM pathways at top-tier companies that were out there. I reflected on our negative experience with mis-hires and identified what we missed. This allowed me to create a complete list of skills.

It's important to note that critical thinking skills (in the “basic skills”) is often missed or glided through, and it's a big source of mis-hires. For senior and junior hires, equally so.

What is NOT included are skills relevant to "technical product managers”, "product marketing managers” and other similar roles that are different from a generalist PM role.

Stacy Pri 

This framework helped me formalize how I interview and evaluate candidates for generalist PM roles.

PM hiring results in mishires all too often. Why? And how to resolve it? 

 is a framework that considers the following: 

For every skill a person is not a has or has not, but takes their place on the skill progression from 1 to 10. 

For critical skills, the skill level caps the level of seniority of a person - even if other skills are at a superpower level. * There is critical thinking and other basic skills that are foundational and are often forgotten in the interview process -> let's fix this. [see them in color below] 

Typical job descriptions are too vague; we could decompose the skills that they list.

Product Manager Skills Framework for Hiring at Preply

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