Structured planning for product or feature launches, including defining launch tiers and timelines, aligning internal stakeholders, and sequencing activities across markets, personas, and channels. Candidates should show comfort with launch tiering such as soft launches, beta programs, and general availability; readiness assessments for customers and internal teams; sales enablement and support readiness; pre launch validation and beta feedback incorporation; ramp and scaling strategies; go to market sequencing across regions and segments; success criteria and measurement by launch tier; contingency and rollback planning; and cross functional coordination with product, engineering, marketing, sales, and operations.
HardTechnical
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Three days after GA a critical bug affects 10% of new installs and can cause data loss in certain edge cases. As the Product Manager, describe triage steps, stakeholders to involve, criteria for immediate rollback versus issuing a hotfix, customer communication strategy, compensation considerations, and how to run an actionable postmortem.
MediumSystem Design
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Design a go-to-market sequencing plan to launch a B2B SaaS product across the US, EU, and APAC over six months. Include launch order rationale, localization priorities (language, payments, legal), channel strategy differences, sales model implications (self-serve vs enterprise), and operational readiness checkpoints for each region.
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Design a rollback strategy for a production launch that minimizes customer impact. Include detection mechanisms, automated and manual rollback triggers, communications templates for customers and internal teams, data consistency concerns, and steps to validate system health after rollback.
EasyTechnical
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As the Product Manager, outline the tangible sales enablement deliverables and activities you must own for a product launch (e.g., battlecards, demo scripts, objection handlers, pilot case studies, training sessions). Explain when and how you hand them off to Sales and how you would measure enablement effectiveness post-launch.
HardTechnical
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Design a phased pricing and packaging rollout strategy for a new paid tier that maximizes ARPU while minimizing churn risk. Include pilot and experiment plans, grandfathering policies for early customers, communication templates, grace periods, and criteria to escalate, pause, or revert pricing changes based on observed customer behavior.
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