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Recruiting marketplace Paraform gets backing from Primer Sazze and Twitch founders

TechCrunch

Paraform , a startup that wants to change how the recruiting industry works by taking a marketplace approach, is giving professional recruiters a new way to find work by going freelance. Before co-founding Paraform, CEO Kim launched and sold a recruiting startup called RulerNetwork. Paraform founders Jeffrey Li and John Kim.

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Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

CIO

As project-based business practices give way to product-focused cross-functional teams, the product manager role is taking on prominence, increasingly attracting interest from job candidates who might otherwise go into IT. Do product managers make good money? As you grow in your career, so will your salary.

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How to hire the right product manager for your IT needs

CIO

IT organizations are increasingly shifting from project-based organizational structures to product-based methodologies , which involve cross-functional teams. Product managers aren’t a new job category by any means, but this shift means that they’re newly prominent and important to many companies’ strategies.

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Recruiting operations platform ModernLoop lands $3.3M to create better technical hiring experiences

TechCrunch

Lydia Han and Christopher Triolo started ModernLoop in December 2020 after seeing the problem of technical recruiting firsthand. Han, who was a product manager at Slack, also worked at Brex the same time that her sister was a technical recruiter there and heard about the pain points.

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User Interviews, which helps companies recruit survey participants, raises $27.5M

TechCrunch

Platforms such as Great Question and Ribbon seek to simplify the process of interviewing customers about product ideas and strategy, while services like Sprig and Maze let product teams observe how users interact with a product and generate reports. User Interviews — which today closed a $27.5

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ModernLoop aims to automate the process of scheduling job candidate interviews

TechCrunch

With the economic turbulence, recruiting is slowing down. In lieu of expanded hiring and recruiting teams, Lydia Han makes the case that software can provide assistance — Han is the co-founder and CEO of ModernLoop, a platform built around a scheduling engine for remote interviews. It’s not limited to tech.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). You’re responsible for the design, the product-market fit, and ultimately for getting the product out the door. Product managers for AI need to lead that rethinking.