you have owned, not how long you've held a title. You have owned a number. Somewhere there's a metric that was yours, that moved, and you can explain why. A PM title is optional, some of our best owners came from analytics and engineering. You are numerate on your own. You write SQL, or you learn it in the first week. You build the view you need instead of waiting for a dashboard. You do not present numbers you haven't checked. You think commercially. Margin, risk-adjusted return, payback. You can defend a decision that trades growth for quality. You work with AI properly. Real work through Claude Code or Cursor, your own agent skills, and a clear sense of where these tools get things wrong. Agent output is a draft you check. You are direct. You disagree with evidence and commit once the call is made. You are technical enough. APIs, system design, and a sense of what's actually cheap to build. Useful, not required: Lending, credit risk, collections, or payments B2C mobile at scale in an emerging market Working inside an engineering team rather than next to one How we work: Weekly cycles. Priorities picked Thursday, sprint starts Sunday. Every fourth cycle is for innovation. No long-term roadmap. We work against corporate goals and change course when the data says to. Prioritization is an argument between product, engineering, and risk — not a scoring spreadsheet. If you want a stable process and a two-year plan, this will not suit you.
