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Role-specific candidate evaluation

Understand who fits the role – and why.

TrueRole brings résumés and CVs, work samples, screening responses, interviews, and team feedback into one evolving, evidence-backed evaluation. See what each candidate has demonstrated, what remains unclear, and what to validate next.

Use TrueRole on its own or alongside your ATS.

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Role fit

Great fit

Principal Product Designer

Deeper Analysis — see the full evaluation

Portfolio case studies support complex product design.

EvidenceRelevant work across complex workflows.

Explore nextValidate ownership of outcomes.

Career trajectory

Aligned

10.2 years of role-relevant experience

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Application checks

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Team feedback
2 Proceed
1 Hold

From candidate matching to candidate understanding.

  1. 01

    Start with what the role requires

    Define the capabilities, responsibilities, and level of experience that matter, shaped by the role and organizational context.

  2. 02

    Look beyond the résumé

    Evaluate relevant experience, portfolios, and supporting work against the same criteria.

  3. 03

    Explore what remains unclear

    Use focused screening and interviews to build on what the available evidence already shows.

  4. 04

    Bring perspectives together

    Review the findings alongside each team member’s observations and recommendations.

Role-specific evaluation

Go from overall fit to the details that matter.

Start with each candidate’s overall role fit, then explore requirement-level findings, career context, and supporting sources. See where experience aligns—and what still needs a closer look.

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Role fit Requirement evidence Supporting materials

A role-specific view

Better evaluation starts with better criteria.

Combine your job description with TrueRole’s role and level frameworks, plus organization and industry context. Review the resulting requirements, weights, and evidence guidance.

Four inputs. One tailored set of criteria.

  • Your job description

    Responsibilities, priorities, and expected outcomes

  • TrueRole role rubric

    The capabilities this type of role calls for

  • TrueRole level rubric

    Scope, autonomy, and seniority expectations

  • Organization & industry context

    The environment in which the work happens

Evaluation criteria
One role-specific lens

TrueRole combines these inputs into weighted requirements and evidence guidance. Review the criteria, then apply the same lens to every candidate.

Sr. Principal Product Designer

Core requirements
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Ordered by weight · Evidence guidance shown for the first requirement

Principal+ Level Scope & Autonomy

Experience

Independently leads complex initiatives end to end, sets strategic design direction, and drives outcomes across a critical domain.

Level expectation

Owns major product areas from concept through implementation, with responsibility for strategy, quality, and outcomes across teams.

Strong evidence may include

  • Owned a B2B checkout experience from vision through multiple shipped releases.

What does not demonstrate this

  • Led only small features within a larger flow, with close direction from a manager.
SourceJob description

End-to-End Execution & Delivery

Core Skill

Drives complex work from discovery through implementation, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.

Showing 2 of 15 requirements

Candidate materials provide the evidence.Résumés and work samples establish an initial view. Screening responses and reviewed interview findings can add to it as you learn more.
Better follow-up

Resolve what’s still unclear.

Turn gaps in the evaluation into focused screening and interview questions. As candidates share more, keep the new information connected to the same role requirements.

Give candidates room to explain.

Prepare questions informed by each candidate’s experience and what’s still unclear. Candidates can respond by video, voice, or text, on their own schedule.

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Which decisions did you personally own in the design-system rollout? Record an answer, up to 3 minutes. A video answer appears below, followed by Stop recording. Simplified product screenshot; activity and timing details are hidden for this illustration.Portrait preview of the illustrative candidate

Build the interview on what you learn.

Prepare questions that build on existing evidence, with guidance on why to ask, what to listen for, and where to explore further.

Explore Interview Intelligence

Interview preparation example

TrueRoleInterview preparation

Alex · Principal Product Designer

Hiring manager interview

Which strategic decisions did you personally own, and how did you measure their impact?

The portfolio describes the rollout, but does not establish Alex’s strategic ownership or its impact.

Specific decisions Alex owned, the tradeoffs involved, and evidence of what changed after the rollout.

  • What did you change after reviewing adoption?
  • Which decision artifact could you walk us through?

Guidance connects the role requirements to what still needs validation.

Team judgment

Different perspectives. One shared evaluation.

Recruiters, hiring managers, and interviewers bring different perspectives. TrueRole keeps their observations and recommendations connected to the same role requirements and supporting evidence, so teams can see where views align and what needs discussion.

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Alex · Principal Product Designer

Same role. Same evidence. Each reviewer’s judgment.

Team perspective

1Proceed
1Hold

MorganRecruiter

Proceed

Relevant delivery experience. Explore Alex’s own decisions in the next conversation.

JordanHiring manager

Hold

I’d like to understand strategic ownership and see the adoption outcomes before proceeding.

Fits your workflow

Use TrueRole on its own, or alongside your ATS.

Create roles and evaluate candidates directly in TrueRole, or use it to deepen evaluations alongside your existing recruiting workflow.

Human judgment, supported

AI assists the analysis.
People make the decision.

TrueRole helps surface relevant evidence and make uncertainty visible. Your team reviews the findings and decides what happens next. Recognized personal details are masked in text prepared for AI scoring, while workspace permissions help control access to candidate information.

Explore trust & privacy

Hiring, true to the role.

See how role-specific requirements and candidate evidence come together to support your next hiring decision.