Director-Level Take-Home Exercise

Conversation rounds reveal interview performance. The memo reveals execution quality. This template gives VPs and CPOs a complete take-home exercise system for director-level PM and growth searches — built around the insight that candidates who can make their assumptions explicit, name what they'd validate first, and produce a specific recommendation are the candidates who can actually do the job. What's included: A fully written exercise prompt (customizable for your company and role), a five-dimension scoring rubric with behavioral anchors at three levels, an exercise tracker for managing the candidate pipeline, and a structured memo template that gives every candidate the same scaffolding — so you're evaluating thinking quality, not format familiarity. Designed for VPs and CPOs at Series C–D companies running director-level searches. Works for any senior individual contributor role where strategic judgment is the primary hiring signal.