Confidential briefing
Confidence: High
Alex
Prepared for your Product Manager Discovery
What stands out
Ownership kept surfacing as the defining characteristic in how Alex describes their work: consistently describes work where the decision sat with them.
We arrived at the same place from your Understanding, where decision making happens close to delivery teams.
Recommended next step
Meet Alex
Suggested first conversation:
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
You've not met before.
What we've learned
Ownership
Alex keeps returning to this without being asked: consistently describes work where the decision sat with them.
Raised unprompted more than once, with different examples behind it.
Leadership
Works best where leadership is close to the work rather than above it. It has shaped what Alex has moved towards, not just what they say.
Revisited deliberately, and Alex did not soften it.
Mission
When Alex describes work they were proud of, it is nearly always this: repeatedly prioritises meaningful education impact.
Heard across separate conversations months apart, described the same way each time.
Why we're confident
Later conversations strengthened rather than altered what we believed about Alex and ownership — the examples got more specific, not vaguer.
- Ownership, leadership and mission each read the same way from Alex's side and from yours, separately.
Their expectations sit at £123,000. No prior relationship — the reasoning carries this on its own.
Worth discussing first
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
- How decisions get made, and where they get written down.
- What would make the first year successful here.
Context
Where they are today
Alex is currently a VP Product, based in Leeds, United Kingdom. Their employer is theirs to share once you've both agreed to talk.
Where they've operated
Mostly education, retail and travel.
Alex has moved from Product Owner to VP Product over 13 years — widening responsibility rather than lateral moves. Not looking, but would take the right conversation. Status: not yet connected.