Confidential briefing
Confidence: High
Ben
Prepared for your Product Manager Discovery
What stands out
Almost everything Ben chooses to talk about circles back to ownership. Specifically: wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery.
That reads directly onto your side, where decision making happens close to delivery teams.
Recommended next step
Meet Ben
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
Wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery — and the examples behind it were about decisions, not responsibilities.
Raised unprompted more than once, with different examples behind it.
Leadership
Ben keeps returning to this without being asked: consistently prefers supportive leadership over hierarchical management.
Revisited deliberately, and Ben did not soften it.
Mission
Repeatedly prioritises meaningful healthcare impact. It has shaped what Ben has moved towards, not just what they say.
Heard across separate conversations months apart, described the same way each time.
Why we're confident
We expected leadership to be the deciding factor for Ben. Repeated conversations pointed at ownership instead, and it has held every time since.
- Ownership, leadership and mission each read the same way from Ben's side and from yours, separately.
Their expectations sit at £80,000. 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
Ben is currently a Senior Product Manager, based in Lisbon, Portugal. Their employer is theirs to share once you've both agreed to talk.
Where they've operated
Mostly healthcare, manufacturing and insurance.
Ben has moved from Product Manager to Senior Product Manager over 24 years — widening responsibility rather than lateral moves. Not looking, but would take the right conversation. Status: not yet connected.