Confidential briefing
Confidence: High
Livia
Prepared for your Product Leadership Discovery
What stands out
Ownership kept surfacing as the defining characteristic in how Livia describes their work: wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery.
We arrived at the same place from your Understanding, where decision making happens close to delivery teams.
Recommended next step
Meet Livia
Suggested first conversation:
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
You've not met before.
What we've learned
Ownership
Livia keeps returning to this without being asked: wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery.
Heard across separate conversations months apart, described the same way each time.
Leadership
Consistently prefers supportive leadership over hierarchical management. It has shaped what Livia has moved towards, not just what they say.
Raised unprompted more than once, with different examples behind it.
Mission
When Livia describes work they were proud of, it is nearly always this: repeatedly prioritises meaningful healthcare impact.
Revisited deliberately, and Livia did not soften it.
Why we're confident
Later conversations strengthened rather than altered what we believed about Livia and ownership — the examples got more specific, not vaguer.
- Ownership, leadership and mission each read the same way from Livia's side and from yours, separately.
- We have watched Livia across several Discoveries, not only this one.
Their expectations sit at £104,000.
Worth discussing first
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
- How decisions get made, and where they get written down.
- What would make the first year successful here.
Context
Where they are today
Livia is currently a Senior Product Manager, based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Their employer is theirs to share once you've both agreed to talk.
Where they've operated
Mostly healthcare, energy and consulting.
Livia has moved from VP Product to Senior Product Manager over 7 years — widening responsibility rather than lateral moves. Not looking, but would take the right conversation. Status: in your Relationships.