Product Management Topics
Product leadership, vision articulation, roadmap development, and feature prioritization. Focuses on product strategy and business alignment.
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.
Customer and User Focus
Demonstrating user centric thinking and long term customer focus. Candidates should explain who the end user is for a given effort, what problem is being solved, which user segment matters most, and how decisions balance short term metrics against long term customer benefit. Answers should show empathy for users, describe how user needs translate into product or operational priorities, and provide examples or frameworks for aligning customer outcomes with business objectives.
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.
Long Term Roadmap & Strategic Priorities
How you think about longer-term marketing operations strategy beyond the first 90 days. What major initiatives you might undertake, how you'd think about technology modernization, process transformation, or team capabilities development.