Senior Product Manager Interview Questions

I believe that dev teams are evolving into product teams which, in consequence, will require new features to handle their materials in the same repos as code.

You know my experience, skills and achievements from my CV. Here is how I see I can contribute to your company development:.........

Ah, that’s a coincidence, I’m also leaving in 5 minutes what are the reasons I should stay?

Please please always open and smell and try the product

That's a hard question to answer without knowing the existing consumer and brand reason for being within the portfolio. I would ask questions to try and gain more information on the product positioning, existing consumer, current performance and any key learnings from past research if they will share. Also consider industry trends if they are a good fit for the brand.

I described how it's more relevant to think in terms of product vision, which is more broad and less transient, and how it's enabled by multiple measurable objectives (via product features) working in unison. You can know if the product is delivering on it vision by either measuring the impact it has on customers, or (less accurately), by using adoption and engagement metrics as reasonable proxies, or by comparing the difference between global customer behavior vs. that of your customers. I don't think this was the answer the interviewer expected. This question seemed very "consulting-ish".

This was a fun exercise - the interviewer in this case, was great and fostered a wonderful discussion. We did a whiteboarding exercise starting with 'WHY', and then thinking about 'WHO' (i.e. target customer segments), followed by thinking through the needed use-cases, prioritizing the use cases, and then thinking through current alternates for merchants and how the app's MVP should deliver that would significantly enhance the experience. Then I boiled down into specific product features and prioritized them using a framework I proposed. This was a fun exercise!

(This was a well-thought question, again from the same interviewer whom I had a good experience with) I proposed a framework for assessing the impact of features/fixes, and how I would measure. I listed different criteria for evaluating each feature/fix against: UX, Acquisition, Use-case expansion, etc. Then I made assumptions on the relative weight of each created a table to measure the net impact of each feature/fix. The interviewer challenged me on some and I was able to course-correct and change as needed. IT was a fun discussion.