Senior Product Manager | B2C Growth, Monetization & Retention | AI-native | 10M+ User Scale
1mo ago
Product Manager
A PM role is asking applicants to skip the resume and build the product instead. This is where hiring is headed.
No portal, no form, no "10+ years required" filter. The ask: build a working MVP, then pitch it like you're raising a seed round. You're the founder, the product is the company, and your job is to convince one person it deserves to exist. Email it to them. That's the entire application.
The line that stayed with me: "90% of PM jobs in India are redundant." You can disagree with the number, but the question underneath it is fair. How much of our job is product judgment, and how much is coordination?
Could someone build an MVP with AI in a weekend? Sure. But AI changed how fast you can build, not what's worth building. A lazy prompt gets you a lazy product. A considered build shows your choices: what you shipped first, what you cut, which tradeoffs you made and why. A reviewer can see that in minutes. A resume can't show it at all.
The approach isn't flawless. Building takes hours that a lot of candidates don't have after work and family, so it quietly favors whoever can spare a weekend. That's a real cost, not a footnote.
Even with that cost, I think the direction holds. 5 years ago, asking every PM candidate to ship an MVP would have filtered for engineers, not product thinkers. AI removed that barrier. What's left to filter on is whether you can spot the right problem and make the case for it.
Role's here if you want to try it: https://lnkd.in/dghaxPeG
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