Hiring Series: Product Manager

Welcome to a MeritFirst Hiring Series Assessment. Each assessment in the Hiring Series is built to help you show what you do best. Not only are we assessing these for our own hiring needs but partner companies - including 8VC and Slow Ventures portfolio companies, OpenClaw, Eragon, and more -- receive a short list of top performers. No resume required. Double opt-in: we'll confirm with you once more before putting you in touch with a company. This assessment focuses on Product Management. Great candidates will be able to hypothesize about causal relationships in data and sequence work to maximize impact. We'll ask you to introduce yourself, then work through two scenarios: one where you diagnose why a marketplace expansion is producing divergent results across cities using product and engagement data, and another where you reprioritize parallel workstreams and propose a concrete staffing reallocation based on shifting signals. LLM Usage: We believe that LLMs are an important tool for analytical work. In this context however, we want to understand how you think, write, and work through a problem on your own. For this reason, please avoid using LLMs for writing, data analysis, or generating insights. We expect that this assessment to take 60 minutes. But we'll give you plenty of extra time!