Head of Product spec builder

What it does

It drafts a Head of Product job spec that fits your stage, industry and the main job for the hire. It marks up lines from your current draft that would attract the wrong candidates, and suggests a replacement for each.

It also checks the parts candidates ask about first: who decides what, what comes with the job and what the role won't own. Use it before you brief a search firm or post the role.

What you enter

• The company. Stage, industry, how you sell and team size. Regulated industries keep the industry-experience line.
• The main job. Eighteen common reasons to hire a product leader. Each adds a mission line, a requirement and an interview question.
• Decision rights. Six decisions, from strategy to hiring. For each, does the hire decide, recommend, give input, or is it not agreed yet?
• The first 90 days, resources and your draft. Up to three outcomes, what's already agreed, and common lines from job specs.

What you get

• A headline that names the real problems. The two biggest issues, then a ranked list of fixes.
• The marked-up spec. Red-pen strikes and replacements, plus a clean version to copy.
• An interview guide. Questions and what good answers look like, for your panel.
• A score out of 100. It starts at 100. A draft line that doesn't fit costs 8 points, 12 for the vision line and 4 for a small edit. No 90-day outcomes costs 15. Each decision not agreed, or in conflict with the spec, costs 4. A missing resource that an outcome depends on costs 4 to 6. A title that doesn't match the reporting line costs 5.