Innovation and Moonshot Thinking Questions

Assesses the candidate ability to foster and operationalize ambitious innovation while balancing product discipline. Areas include building an innovation portfolio that balances core improvements and exploratory bets, structuring pilots and experiments to quickly validate high risk ideas, governance for funding and terminating experiments, cultural levers to encourage creativity and safe failure, and processes for scaling successful prototypes into the main product. Interviewers probe comfort with ambiguity, risk management, metrics for exploratory work, and methods to ensure innovation contributes to business objectives.