Interview process
The Product Management hiring process
Our Product Management evaluation aims to find strategic, analytical, and collaborative leaders who can navigate complex spaces while prioritising great user experiences. Here is the step-by-step pipeline for our PM candidates.
The interview stages
01Talent conversation
You will begin with a 30-minute introductory phone interview with our Talent team. This initial conversation helps us ensure there is a strong potential mutual fit by aligning on your background, career aspirations, and what brings you to Entrust.
- 30 minutes
02Hiring manager call
Next, you will connect with the hiring Product Manager. Similar to the talent conversation, this call ensures a continued mutual fit while digging into the high-level trajectory of your product journey and the specific scope of the target team.
- 45 minutes
03PM skills interview
In this stage, you will meet with two members of our Product Management team. This evaluation is structured to collect a comprehensive set of signals across all core PM competencies, product traits, frameworks, and strategic thinking methodologies.
- 60 minutes
04Technical interview and workshop
This deep-dive evaluation focuses heavily on your execution, collaborative skills, and technical depth. It is split into two distinct blocks:
Technical interview
This conversation assesses your technical capabilities, abstract system thinking, and your ability to articulate complex technical concepts from your past products.
- 45 minutes
Onsite or remote workshop
An interactive session designed to highlight your live collaboration, communication, and facilitation skills. Together with the panel, you will step through problem discovery, solution definitions, and strategic roadmapping.
- 90 minutes
05Final stage
Your final interview will be with our VP of Product. The primary objective of this conversation is to assess your long-term culture add into the broader product organisation and ensure alignment with our global vision.
- 60 minutes
What we look for in Product Management candidates
When evaluating product managers, we look for leadership, strategic execution, and forward-thinking mindsets. Here is what we look for you to demonstrate throughout your interview stages.
Make ambiguity legible
Great product environments are naturally complex. Show us how you can take fuzzy, unclearly defined problems and turn them into workable, structured milestones for your engineering and design teams.
Raise the standard without blame
We look for leaders who elevate the quality of work through constructive partnership. Show us how you help teams get better in the everyday work, without turning accountability into theatre or corporate finger-pointing.
Influence direction beyond one squad
Your strategic footprint matters. Whether the challenge is product-focused, technical, design-driven, or operational, be prepared to demonstrate how you proactively widen your scope to drive broader alignment across multiple stakeholders.
Own it, with balance
Take deep pride in the products you build and the outcomes you achieve. At the same time, show us how you manage that ownership with personal balance: we value driving massive business impact without giving up your life outside of work.
Move with intention, learn through action
We value evidence-based decision-making. Show us how you run clever experiments without fear of failure, capture valuable data loops, and use those learnings to move the product forward smarter.
Be curious about what's coming
The technical landscape shifts rapidly. Our key verticals across identity, payments, and AI are all heading somewhere very interesting, and we hope you are as excited to build in these spaces as we are.