When Priyanka Jain, co-founder and CEO of vaginal microbiome test and care company Evvy, is hiring, she knows what she wants to see in a candidate.
She’s looking for someone “who goes above and beyond just what your job title tells you to do,” she says. That could mean including an “Interests” section on your resume that lists volunteering or outside projects, or just illustrating your passion for your field with accomplishments on the job.
She also knows what she doesn’t want to see in a candidate: Someone who’s only interested in doing strategy. When execution is “outside of their zone of genius,” she says, “that’s always a little concerning.”
who execute. But at a startup, where personnel and resources are limited, “you don’t have the luxury of having strategy people and execution people,” says Jain.
Every person needs to be able to “figure out what the problem is,” she says, plus, “you also need to be able to get into the weeds, figure out the solution, write it yourself, get it into the world.”
At the end of the day, when it comes to strategy and execution at a startup, “everybody has to be able to do both.”
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