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.
Roadmap Planning and Multi Project Management
Planning and managing product or program level roadmaps that span quarters or years across multiple projects and teams. This includes prioritization and sequencing of features, infrastructure investments, technical debt work, and experiments while balancing limited resources and competing priorities. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to manage parallel projects, identify and surface cross team dependencies and bottlenecks, perform critical path thinking at a roadmap level, sequence work to maintain momentum, and handle partner or customer driven disruptions. Also includes stakeholder communication and alignment, communicating realistic timelines, negotiating trade offs across teams, and escalation strategies when shared resources or delayed dependencies require roadmap changes.
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.
Data Driven Prioritization
Using data and metric thinking to prioritize initiatives and decide what to build next. This covers selecting one to a few primary metrics to focus on for a specific growth or product challenge, weighing trade-offs between competing business goals such as acquisition versus retention or speed versus quality, and applying pragmatic approaches to measurement when perfect data is not available. Candidates should demonstrate how they translate business goals into measurable success criteria, estimate impact and effort, use simple models or scoring to rank opportunities, and explain how they will track and communicate progress and tradeoffs to stakeholders.
Engineering Roadmap & Product Strategy Alignment
How you align engineering investments and roadmap with product strategy and business objectives. Examples of working with product leadership to sequence features, manage trade-offs, and ensure engineering capabilities enable business priorities. How you communicate engineering constraints and possibilities to product teams.
Product Driven Thinking
Connecting team practices and ceremonies to business outcomes and customer value. This includes product discovery mindsets, iterative delivery, working with product owners on prioritization and experiments, and ensuring that team work maps to measurable product impact. Candidates should explain how Scrum practices support product outcomes rather than process for its own sake.