Product design question
You are the CEO of a startup in the health space. What will you build?
- Meta
- Product design
- Hard
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What this question tests
Tests the candidate's ability to scope an ambiguous, wide-open prompt into one specific, well-reasoned product bet.
How to approach it
- Narrow the space, since health is huge, fitness, mental health, chronic disease management, and pick one segment with a clear underserved pain point.
- Narrow to chronic condition management, for example diabetes, for patients who struggle with daily adherence between doctor visits.
- Identify the pain point: patients get infrequent doctor guidance but need daily support, and current tools are fragmented across separate devices and logs.
- Design a connected app aggregating device data, simple logging, and personalized daily nudges, with data shared back to the doctor for between-visit monitoring.
- Define success as adherence rate, a clinical outcome proxy like time-in-range, and retention or engagement.
What a strong answer includes
- Makes a clear, justified choice of segment instead of listing many health ideas without picking one.
- Ties the solution to a concrete clinical or adherence outcome metric, not just app engagement, appropriate for a health product.
- Designs for the real gap, infrequent doctor visits versus daily need, rather than a generic wellness app.
Common mistakes
- Staying too broad, like build a fitness app, without committing to and justifying one specific segment.
- Measuring only engagement without any real health-outcome-oriented metric.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you navigate healthcare regulation, HIPAA or FDA if it becomes a medical device, for this product?
- How would you build trust with both patients and doctors to actually get adopted?
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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 7: AI UX and human oversight: design for a system that is wrong sometimes
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop