Hiring a product person has changed over the last few years. Most companies now want someone who has already done the job in their kind of business, their industry, or on a product like theirs, and they’ll wait for that person rather than train someone into it. There are more product people available than a couple of years ago, which makes that wait easier to justify. However the exception is AI: where the product itself is AI, everyone is chasing the same small group of PMs who have shipped it before. More on what we’re seeing in product hiring.
Consortia have been recruiting product talent since 2010, from a start-up’s very first product hire to companies building out a full product organisation. And because we also work with Engineering, Data and UX teams every day, we see product from the teams it depends on as well as from the product function itself.
We don’t wait on job boards. We approach product people directly, including the strong ones who aren’t looking, and our network runs from business analysts and product marketers through to CPOs, so shortlists are quick and accurate. Every search runs consultatively, whatever the level, and only genuinely matched candidates reach you.
Seeing all four markets also gives us a grounded view of product pay, candidate supply and demand. That gives you a realistic starting point on scope, seniority and budget before a search begins, which matters in a market where candidates and clients can be a long way apart on pay.
Consortia cover the whole product recruitment function: managers and owners, technical product managers, AI product managers, business analysts and product engineers, product marketing and product operations, and the leaders and CPOs steering entire portfolios. Permanent, contract, fractional or executive search, across the UK, Europe, the US and the UAE.
