Product Management Topics
Product leadership, vision articulation, roadmap development, and feature prioritization. Focuses on product strategy and business alignment.
Metrics and Success Measurement
Defining meaningful program and product metrics, translating business objectives into measurable outcomes, selecting and tracking key performance indicators such as adoption, quality, and stakeholder satisfaction, and establishing measurement plans and reporting cadence. Assess the candidate's ability to choose actionable metrics, set targets, instrument and interpret data, and use metrics to drive decisions and transparency.
Company Research and Opportunities
Demonstrate an understanding of the company's specific research needs, challenges, and opportunities and explain how your expertise would address those needs. Discuss realistic research priorities and trade offs given likely team size and resources, propose potential focal areas or experiments, and show awareness of the company research and development direction. Tie examples from your past work to concrete ways you could contribute to the company research agenda, including suggested metrics for success and how you would collaborate with product and engineering partners.
Product and Engineering Collaboration and Prioritization
Practices and skills for partnering with product management, engineering teams, and senior leadership to align priorities, make trade offs, and deliver customer and business value. Interviews evaluate how a candidate builds cross functional relationships, establishes collaborative planning and roadmapping processes, and translates strategic goals into prioritized work. Key aspects include balancing engineering vision and technical quality with product needs and time to market, advocating for engineering concerns such as scalability and reliability in leadership forums, ensuring engineers understand the why behind work, negotiating and resolving disagreements with product partners, and using prioritization frameworks and impact metrics to drive decisions. Expect to describe concrete examples of stakeholder communication, decision making frameworks, trade off negotiation, and how you represented engineering interests while keeping product outcomes central.