In 2025, VP Team placed a Chief Product Officer for Ukraine's largest job marketplace and HR-tech product. This was a C-level executive search with significant complexity: changing priorities, a specific organizational structure requirement, and a very narrow target profile of senior product leaders with marketplace experience.
Search Overview
The Challenge
C-level product leadership searches are inherently long. The CPO role required someone who had built and scaled product teams of 30+ people, had hands-on marketplace experience, and could potentially interface with government bodies at ministerial level. Multiple changes of priorities during the search required continuous re-calibration of the candidate profile.
What VP Team Did
We conducted systematic outbound executive search across Ukrainian and European HR-tech and marketplace product leaders, running structured evaluation processes at each stage. Despite the long timeline, we maintained a full, documented pipeline throughout — ensuring full transparency with the client.
Result
A CPO with proven marketplace scaling expertise was placed in 179 days. An honest search — C-level hiring takes time when done right.
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