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Job Description and Hiring Scorecard Writer

Turn a messy role brief into an EEO-safe job description, a scored hiring scorecard, and a structured interview loop hiring managers can run this week.

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August 24, 2026

Prompt

Act as a senior talent partner sitting with a hiring manager. Write a job description people can self-select against, plus a scorecard that interviewers will actually fill in. Outcomes over task lists. Do not invent market salary data or legal advice.

Inputs:
- Role title: [Title]
- Team and reporting line: [Team, manager]
- Company: [Name, stage or size, what you sell]
- Seniority: [IC / lead / manager and years]
- Location and work mode: [City / remote / hybrid days]
- Compensation: [Band if known, currency, equity or bonus notes, or "do not publish"]
- Must-haves: [Skills and proof of work]
- Nice-to-haves: [List]
- 90-day outcomes: [3-5 measurable results]
- Anti-profile: [Who this is not for]
- Constraints: [Visa, travel, on-call, tools, union, public-sector rules]
- Tone: [Direct / warm / academic]

Generate:
1. Role one-liner: One sentence a candidate can paste into a search. Who, what, for whom, what "good" looks like in 90 days.
2. Job description:
   - About the team (5-8 sentences, concrete, no "fast-paced family").
   - What you will own in the first 6 months (bullets tied to outcomes, not a tool dump).
   - How we work (meeting load, decision rights, who you partner with).
   - Must-haves vs nice-to-haves. Must-haves must be observable in a work sample or interview. No years-of-experience as a hard floor unless legally required.
   - How we hire (steps, work sample, timeline).
   - Compensation and location as given. If Compensation is "do not publish," write "Competitive; shared in the first conversation" and stop. Do not invent a band.
   - Equal opportunity statement: short, real, not a legal novel.
3. Hiring scorecard: 5-7 competencies. For each: definition in one sentence, what "1 / 2 / 3 / 4" looks like with a work example, where in the loop it is tested, weight (% summing to 100). Include one values/judgment competency. Flag any must-have that is a knockout (yes/no, not a 1-4).
4. Interview loop (4-6 steps): Interviewer role, 25-45 min goal, 3 sample questions, what a strong answer cites, a work-sample prompt if relevant. No brainteasers. No "where do you see yourself in 5 years."
5. Sourcing notes: 8 search strings or communities. 5 signal phrases on a resume. 5 anti-signals (not protected-class proxies).
6. Offer narrative: 8-12 sentences a hiring manager can say on the verbal offer: why this person, why this scope, what the first 90 days will feel like.
7. Risk check: Discriminatory or proxy language you removed. Questions interviewers must not ask. Gaps in Inputs that will cause a bad hire if left blank.

Constraints:
- No em dashes. Short sentences. Named sections.
- Do not invent salary surveys, headcount, or visa rules.
- Do not use age, family status, nationality, health, or "culture fit" as a scorecard row. Replace culture fit with specific behaviors.
- Must-haves cannot be a shopping list of 15 tools.
- If 90-day outcomes are missing, invent none. Write "unknown, need hiring manager" and still structure the rest.
- Write for a skeptical candidate who has been burned by vague JDs.

Instructions

Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Examples

Example Input

Role title: Senior Product Designer
Team and reporting line: Design team of 4, reports to Head of Design
Company: Northwind Analytics, Series B, ~80 people, B2B reporting dashboards for mid-market finance teams
Seniority: IC, 5+ years product design, not a manager seat
Location and work mode: New York hybrid, Tue/Thu in office
Compensation: $145k-$175k base, 0.08-0.15% options, do publish band
Must-haves: shipped B2B SaaS, Figma systems, partnered with researchers, can present to VP Finance buyers
Nice-to-haves: SQL literacy, data-viz portfolio, prior fintech
90-day outcomes: (1) ship v2 of the reporting dashboard with a design QA checklist, (2) run 6 customer shadow sessions and a findings memo, (3) cut P1 visual bugs in the design-to-eng handoff by half vs last quarter
Anti-profile: brand-only visual designers, people who want to manage in this seat
Constraints: no visa sponsorship this cycle, light travel to 2 customer onsites a year, Figma + Linear
Tone: Direct

Example Output

1. Role one-liner
Senior Product Designer for Northwind Analytics who will own reporting dashboard v2, prove it with six customer shadows, and cut P1 visual bugs in the design-to-eng handoff by half in 90 days.

2. Job description
About the team: Northwind sells B2B reporting dashboards to mid-market finance teams. Design is four people reporting to the Head of Design. You sit next to product and a researcher, not in a brand studio. Buyers are VP Finance types who care about trust in numbers. We ship in Linear. Figma is the source of truth. Hybrid in New York, Tuesday and Thursday in office.

What you will own in the first 6 months:
- Lead reporting dashboard v2 from problem framing through design QA.
- Pair on six customer shadow sessions and write a findings memo the PM can act on.
- Install a design-to-eng handoff checklist and cut P1 visual bugs by half vs last quarter.
- Present work to internal stakeholders and, when needed, to a VP Finance buyer.
- Contribute to the Figma system. You will not be the sole system owner.

How we work: Two in-office days. Critiques are weekly and blunt. This is not a manager seat. Decision rights on visual and interaction design sit with you once the problem is agreed. Product owns scope. Eng owns sequencing.

Must-haves: a portfolio of shipped B2B SaaS, evidence you have used a design system in Figma, proof you have partnered with research, and a sample of presenting to a skeptical business buyer. Nice-to-haves: SQL literacy, data-viz work, prior fintech. Years of experience are a hint, not a floor.

How we hire: screen, portfolio deep-dive, 90-minute dashboard critique, cross-functional panel, references. Target 3 weeks. No whiteboard logo redraws.

Compensation: $145k-$175k base, 0.08-0.15% options. We cannot sponsor a visa this cycle. Light travel: about two customer onsites a year.

Equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on protected characteristics.

3. Hiring scorecard
Weights sum to 100. Knockouts are yes/no, not 1-4.
A. B2B product craft (25%). 1 = consumer-only visuals. 4 = shipped complex tables a buyer used weekly. Tested in portfolio.
B. Systems in Figma (15%). 1 = artboards only. 4 = tokens, variants, and a handoff others can use. Tested in portfolio + work sample.
C. Research partnership (15%). 1 = "I just talk to users." 4 = a study that changed a decision. Tested in deep-dive.
D. Buyer communication (15%). 1 = cannot explain a chart choice. 4 = handles a VP Finance objection. Tested in panel.
E. Handoff quality (15%). 1 = pretty files, messy tickets. 4 = spec, states, and QA notes eng uses. Tested in work sample.
F. Judgment under constraint (15%). 1 = gold-plates. 4 = names the cut and the risk. Tested in deep-dive.
Knockouts: no shipped product work; wants this to be a manager job; cannot work hybrid New York; needs visa sponsorship this cycle.

4. Interview loop
1. Recruiter screen, 25 min: logistics, visa, hybrid, band. What in the 90-day outcomes is exciting vs scary?
2. Hiring manager portfolio, 45 min: walk two B2B pieces. Strong answers cite the user, the constraint, and what they cut.
3. Work sample, 90 min: critique a redacted dashboard. List the three highest-risk UX issues for a finance buyer and a 2-week vs 2-month fix.
4. Cross-functional panel, 45 min: PM + eng. How you resolve a P1 visual bug that eng says is "by design."
5. Head of Design, 30 min: scope and growth. No five-year vision question.

5. Sourcing notes
Search: product designer + dashboard + SaaS. Signals: shipped, dashboard, research partner, Figma library. Anti-signals (not class proxies): brand-only work, no outcomes, manager-title hunting on an IC req.

6. Offer narrative
You would own dashboard v2, not a slice of buttons. The 90-day bar is public: ship, six shadows, half the P1 visual bugs. Band is $145k-$175k plus 0.08-0.15% options. Hybrid Tuesday and Thursday. We will not pretend this is a lead seat.

7. Risk check
Removed: "culture fit," "young team," "native English," years-as-floor. Interviewers must not ask age, family, health, or national origin. Gap: no work-sample budget named; confirm paid vs take-home before kickoff.

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