Product design question
As the Product Manager for Horizon Worlds on Oculus, what would you design?
- Meta
- Product design
- Hard
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What this question tests
Product design in a defined virtual platform: proposing concrete features that serve creators and users within known constraints.
How to approach it
- Clarify the goal: grow engaged, returning users within Horizon Worlds, Meta's social VR platform.
- Identify the two core users: creators building worlds and visitors exploring them, and their differing needs.
- Propose a creator-side feature, like better tools for monetizing popular worlds through virtual goods or entry fees.
- Propose a visitor-side feature, like improved discovery of high-quality worlds based on social recommendations from friends.
- Define success as weekly active creators publishing content and average session length per visitor.
What a strong answer includes
- Addresses both sides of the platform (creators and visitors) rather than only a single-user feature.
- Proposes a concrete creator monetization mechanism, directly addressing the retention challenge of creator platforms.
- Leverages Meta's social graph for discovery, a genuine platform advantage over generic VR competitors.
- Uses an assumed metric, e.g. targeting 10 percent of active creators earning revenue within their first month.
Common mistakes
- Proposing generic VR features with no tie to Horizon Worlds' specific creator-visitor dynamic.
- Ignoring creator monetization, a key driver of content supply on any UGC platform.
- Not defining a metric to measure engagement or creator retention.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you solve the cold-start problem of getting quality worlds built early on?
- How would you monetize the platform without alienating casual visitors?
- What would you measure to know the platform is growing sustainably?
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Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovery and strategy for AI products
- Chapter 7: AI UX and human oversight: design for a system that is wrong sometimes
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop