Strategy question
Imagine you are the head of product for Chrome. What would your strategy be?
- Strategy
- Hard
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What this question tests
Strategic thinking about a mature, dominant product's next growth and defense vectors.
How to approach it
- Assess Chrome's position as market leader and its role in Google's ecosystem and ad business.
- Identify strategic threats: privacy regulation reducing cookie-based tracking, and AI-native browsers as a new front.
- Identify opportunities: deeper AI assistant integration, cross-device continuity, and the extensions and PWA developer platform.
- Pick 1 to 2 priorities, e.g. building agentic AI features into Chrome to stay ahead of AI-native browser startups.
- State the tradeoff, e.g. investing in AI features versus pure performance and privacy improvements.
- Connect the recommendation back to protecting Google's search and ad distribution.
What a strong answer includes
- Names the real current threat, AI-native browsing, rather than generic 'stay competitive'.
- Connects strategy to Google's business model, noting Chrome protects search and ad distribution.
- Picks a clear priority instead of listing every possible initiative.
- Flags the privacy and regulatory tension around third-party cookie deprecation as a real constraint.
Common mistakes
- Treating Chrome like a startup product needing user acquisition, ignoring it's already dominant.
- Not connecting the browser strategy back to Google's core ad and search incentives.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you defend Chrome's market share against AI-native browser startups?
- What would you measure to know an AI feature in Chrome is working?
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Learn the skill behind it
Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovery and strategy for AI products
- Chapter 9: Prove it paid off: outcomes, economics, and pricing
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop