Product Management Topics
Product leadership, vision articulation, roadmap development, and feature prioritization. Focuses on product strategy and business alignment.
Technology Roadmapping and Portfolio Management
Demonstrate the ability to develop multi year technology roadmaps and to manage a portfolio of initiatives that balance innovation with operational reliability. Topics include prioritization frameworks, dependency management, resource and budget allocation, sequencing and staging of work streams, communicating roadmaps to stakeholders, and measuring outcomes. Discuss techniques for re prioritizing in response to shifting business needs and for balancing long term strategic investments with short term operational demands.
Technical Strategy and Roadmapping
Covers defining, communicating, and operationalizing multi quarter to multi year technical and engineering strategy that aligns engineering investments with product and business objectives. Candidates should be able to describe planning horizons, trade offs between near term delivery and long term investment, and how strategic direction maps to architecture and platform decisions. Topic coverage includes migration and modernization planning, assessing current state and technical debt, sequencing initiatives and milestones, prioritization frameworks and cost of delay thinking, capacity and resource planning including hiring and team structure, vendor evaluation and integration, compliance and data considerations, governance and operating model, and execution planning with timelines and review cadences. It also includes balancing feature delivery, reliability, platform evolution, developer experience, and maintenance; making the business case for infrastructure and platform investments; defining success metrics and objectives and key results and measuring outcomes; risk identification, mitigation and contingency planning; and communicating roadmaps and trade offs to engineers, product leaders, business stakeholders, and executives. Domain specific concerns such as cloud adoption, business intelligence roadmaps, and marketing technology integration are included as examples of how technical strategy varies by context.
Customer Focus and Market Awareness
Covers the ability to align technology strategy and investment decisions to customer outcomes and market dynamics. Interviewers assess how candidates gather and use customer insights, prioritize features and platform work that improve customer experience, and measure impact using business oriented metrics. Candidates should be able to describe competitive landscape awareness, product market fit considerations, segmentation and persona thinking, and how they translate market signals into technology roadmaps and go to market enablement. The topic also includes stakeholder engagement with product and commercial teams, trade off conversations between speed and quality, and ways to demonstrate return on investment from customer centric initiatives.
Customer Obsession
Prioritizing customer needs and working backward from customer experiences to shape decisions and roadmaps. Includes gathering and using customer feedback, balancing internal convenience against customer value, and making trade offs that demonstrably improve the user experience or customer outcomes.