Product Management Topics
Product leadership, vision articulation, roadmap development, and feature prioritization. Focuses on product strategy and business alignment.
Success Metrics and Decision Authority
Define how success will be measured and how those measures tie to business objectives and product strategy. This includes identifying two to three key metrics that directly reflect the strategic goal such as increasing annual contract value, improving adoption rates, or reducing churn, and explaining how those metrics cascade from company objectives to team and feature level. Describe leading and lagging indicators, proposed measurement methods, reporting cadence, and how you will review and act on the data. In addition, clarify decision authority and governance: who has the power to make trade offs and prioritization decisions, what approvals or resources are required, how your performance will be evaluated against the metrics, and how you will interface with the hiring manager and other stakeholders to maintain alignment and accountability. The focus is on measurable, outcome oriented metrics plus clear roles and processes to operationalize and own them.
Prioritization and Stakeholder Alignment
Covers frameworks and practices for prioritizing work, aligning stakeholders, and allocating limited resources across features projects and operational needs. Topics include impact versus effort and weighted scoring models, RICE and similar frameworks, sequencing dependent work, handling competing or conflicting priorities, negotiating trade offs with business and engineering partners, creating governance and escalation paths, communicating deprioritization decisions, and measuring outcomes to validate prioritization. Senior assessments include strategic resource allocation across teams and portfolios and techniques for building cross functional consensus.
Marketplace and User Focus
Combines company and product context with user centered agile practices. Expect to discuss marketplace dynamics and global operations such as those that shape two sided platforms, and how those dynamics influence prioritization, experimentation, and risk. This topic includes working with community partners and external stakeholders, running sprints around user feedback loops, integrating user research into planning, and ensuring that team practices preserve focus on user value and marketplace health.