ARCHETYPE GUIDESTPM

Technical PM archetype: how to write a resume for Stripe, Vercel, Linear

Eng-PM hybrid cultures evaluate on writing quality, scope discipline, and bias to running code over slide decks.

WHO HIRES THIS WAY

Representative companies

These are the cultures we tuned the TPM rewrite against. Not exhaustive, just representative.

Stripe
Vercel
Linear
Plaid
Anthropic
Replicate
Modal
Sentry
LANGUAGE THAT LANDS

Vocabulary, and what to avoid

Two columns. Phrases on the left signal the archetype. Phrases on the right disqualify you in 5 seconds of skim.

USE
  • RFC
  • written-doc culture
  • ship-then-iterate
  • deterministic shipping
  • eng-PM hybrid
  • bias to running code
  • scope discipline
  • 800-word RFC
  • two revisions
  • feature flag
  • instrumented day one
  • rollout owner
AVOID
  • alignment workshop
  • vision document
  • market analysis
  • roadmap presentation
  • stakeholder synthesis
  • strategic narrative
EXAMPLE BULLETS

A senior partner ops resume in this voice

Same operator, same outcomes. Three bullets rewritten in the TPM register so you can hear how the voice changes.

01 · OWNERSHIP

Owned partner-tier scoring v2 end-to-end. RFC, build, ship, monitor. 12 weeks. Adoption 92.9% within a quarter.

02 · RFC

Wrote the partner-tier pipeline RFC in 800 words, three reviewers, two revisions. Cycle time dropped 41% post-merge.

03 · METRICS

Shipped a partner-tier scoring service behind a feature flag, instrumented day one. 130K records, 92.9% adoption, two paged incidents in 90 days, both inside SLO.

INTERVIEW SIGNALS

What the panel is actually scoring

The bar past the resume. If the rewrite gets you in the room, these are the criteria the loop will weigh once you are there.

  1. 01Writing quality: does your RFC stand alone without a meeting
  2. 02Scope discipline: a feature you cut, by name, with the reason
  3. 03Eng-empathy: the last bug you traced before escalating
  4. 04Bias to running code: a prototype shipped before the spec was ratified
POWERED BY

Built on the Chameleon engine. See the spec at /substrate/chameleon.

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