Long Term Research Vision and Strategy Questions

Articulate a long term vision for how research should evolve and scale within a company and how it aligns with product and organizational strategy. This covers identifying the most important research capabilities, defining research maturity stages, prioritizing investments in methods tooling and hiring, building processes for evidence generation and impact measurement, establishing partnerships across product design engineering and business teams, creating success metrics for research impact, and describing how individual research contributions feed into longer term strategic goals. Candidates should convey how they would grow research capability, balance short term product needs with long term capability building, and measure maturation and influence.