Product Management Topics
Product leadership, vision articulation, roadmap development, and feature prioritization. Focuses on product strategy and business alignment.
Gameplay Balancing and Economy Design
Creating and tuning systems that govern player progression, resource flow, and in game economies so that gameplay remains fair, engaging, and sustainable. Topics include virtual currency design and sinks, pricing and value curves, progression pacing and experience curves, reward frequency and risk reward trade offs, inflation control and exploit prevention, simulation and equation based modelling for balance, telemetry driven tuning workflows, playtesting and iteration strategies, and coordination with monetization and live operations. Candidates should be able to explain data driven methods for balance, experiment design to validate changes, and how economy decisions affect player retention and fairness.
Roadmap and Strategic Impact
Evaluate the candidate understanding of team and product roadmaps, how work priorities are set, and how individual projects contribute to long term goals. Expect discussion of feature prioritization, trade offs between short term and long term investments, estimating potential user and business impact, aligning with stakeholders, and communicating how proposed work fits into the roadmap. Candidates should show product sense, ability to identify high leverage opportunities, and methods for quantifying and tracking the strategic impact of their contributions.
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.
Think Big and Be Right Often
Describe long horizon technical and product thinking and examples where strategic bets delivered measurable impact. Candidates should explain how they identify high leverage opportunities, frame trade offs between short term delivery and long term platform health, prototype to reduce risk, and use data and judgment to validate direction. Interviewers look for pattern recognition, clarity about what success looks like, and concrete outcomes that show effective long term decision making.
Think Big
Envisioning ambitious solutions and opportunities beyond incremental improvements, understanding strategic impact, and proposing changes that scale. For more junior candidates this includes contributing innovative ideas and identifying efficiency gains that improve processes or customer experience.
Customer Obsession for Players
Apply the customer obsession mindset to players by centering decisions around player experience and measurable player outcomes. Discuss key signals such as retention, engagement, session length, churn, conversion, net promoter score, community feedback, and qualitative playtest insights. Describe how you would prioritize features that improve player experience, how to instrument telemetry and run split testing to validate hypotheses, and how to balance short term gains with long term player trust and fairness. Include examples of trade offs considered, metrics used, and how player feedback influenced iterations.