Mar 07 2025 30 mins 2
Lessons from the Fireside PM podcast on how to stop missing top-tier candidates and make your next VP or Director of Product hire a game-changer.
Hiring a Great Product Leader Is Harder Than You Think
Team, we’re back on the Fireside PM podcast, and today, I want to talk about a topic that keeps coming up: why even experienced executives struggle to hire strong product leaders. If you’re a CEO or CPO at a mid-to-late-stage company and you need to hire a killer Director or VP of Product, this post is for you.
You go through the hiring process, extend an offer to someone who looks amazing on paper—only to realize months later that it’s not working out. Sound familiar?
The good news? Most hiring failures happen because of a handful of predictable mistakes. Let’s break them down, one by one, so you can avoid them next time.
