Why CPO Searches Are Underinvested
The Chief Product Officer is often the last C-suite hire a company makes — after sales, engineering, and marketing leadership are in place. This is a mistake. The CPO is the executive who decides what gets built, why it gets built, and in what order. A CPO who misreads the market or misaligns the roadmap with customer needs produces 12 months of engineering output that doesn't move revenue — the most expensive mistake a technology company can make.
Majhi Group places Chief Product Officers at high-growth technology companies. Every search begins with a structured assessment of the company's product-market fit, competitive position, and what product leadership actually needs to produce at this stage.
CPO Profile Considerations
CPO Profile Dimensions
Assessment Dimensions for CPO Candidates
Market insight vs. internal opinion
The most predictive question in a CPO assessment: how does this person learn what the market needs? Candidates who rely on internal stakeholder feedback without systematic customer research build products for the loudest internal voice — not for the market.
Roadmap prioritisation under resource constraints
The CPO who cannot say no to good ideas — in favour of great ones — produces roadmaps that spread engineering effort across too many initiatives. Assessment includes explicit exploration of how candidates have made prioritisation decisions under resource constraints and stakeholder pressure.
Technical depth calibration
The CPO needs enough technical understanding to have credible conversations with engineering leadership — without crossing into micromanagement of technical decisions. Finding the right calibration for the company's engineering culture is a dimension of every CPO assessment.
Stage-fit: building vs. scaling a product function
A CPO who has managed a 30-person product organisation may not be equipped to build a product function from 3 people. The skills are different — and candidates who have done one sometimes significantly underestimate the demands of the other.
"The CPO who builds the wrong product for 12 months creates a problem that is visible to customers before it is visible to the board. The search process has to surface how candidates make product decisions — not just what products they have built."
Majhi Group CPO Search Track Record
Majhi Group closes CPO searches in 30–45 days with a 90%+ offer acceptance rate and a 90-day replacement guarantee. Every candidate is assessed against a structured set of dimensions that go beyond title history and product portfolio.