Product Management Topics
Product leadership, vision articulation, roadmap development, and feature prioritization. Focuses on product strategy and business alignment.
Impact Beyond Direct Team
Describe how you've influenced product strategy or direction beyond your immediate team. Examples: you shaped the company's approach to a new market, established cross-product standards, elevated the bar for product execution company-wide, or influenced executive strategy. Quantify impact when possible: 'By establishing a shared prioritization framework, the org went from 40 initiatives to 12 strategic ones, increasing focus.' Discuss how you balance your team's needs with company-wide contributions.
Mobile Technology Vision and Strategy
Evaluate strategic perspective on where mobile technology is heading and how a company should position itself. Topics include trends such as device form factors, augmented reality, cross platform tooling, operating system evolution, privacy and security regulations, developer experience, and performance breakthroughs. Candidates should be able to articulate trade offs between investing in platform specific optimizations versus shared capabilities, alignment to business objectives, and a multi year roadmap that balances experimentation with platform stability.
Native and Cross Platform Trade Offs
Evaluation of the architectural and technical trade offs when building mobile applications using native platform development versus cross platform frameworks. Includes when to choose native iOS and Android development using platform specific languages and toolchains versus cross platform frameworks such as React Native, Flutter, or Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile. Covers performance characteristics, startup and runtime speed, memory usage, and responsiveness; developer productivity and time to market through code sharing and single code base benefits; user experience and platform specific look and feel; access to platform specific features and native APIs; bridging and interoperability costs for native modules and plugins. Also covers testing and quality assurance implications, build and release pipelines, application size and update strategies, maintenance and long term technical debt, team skills and hiring considerations, ecosystem maturity and third party library support, security and platform compliance, and business considerations such as total cost of ownership and product roadmap trade offs.
Product and Design Collaboration
Focuses on how design and product teams align, prioritize, and make trade offs to deliver user value and meet business goals. Topics include working with product managers on roadmaps and prioritization, balancing design quality against timelines and scope, advocating for user needs within product constraints, defining success metrics, negotiating trade offs across stakeholders, using prioritization frameworks, and communicating design decisions to product and engineering. Includes examples of pragmatic decision making, cross functional alignment processes, and methods for resolving prioritization conflicts.
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
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.