Product design question

You are the Product Manager for Zoom Chat. How would you improve it?

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What this question tests

Focused product design thinking on a specific sub-feature rather than the whole platform.

Users: define who uses Zoom Chat specifically, teams using it as a Slack alternative alongside video calls.
Pain points: chat feels like an afterthought compared to dedicated chat tools, with weaker search and threading.
Prioritize: pick the highest impact gap, likely message search and thread organization for teams with high message volume.
Solution: propose improved threading and cross-meeting chat continuity, so chat context carries between calls.
Success metric: daily active chat users among Zoom Meeting users, and messages sent per active user.
Confirm scope: whether the goal is to compete directly with Slack or simply support meeting-adjacent chat.

Identifies the real competitive gap, weaker threading and search versus dedicated tools like Slack, grounded in common knowledge.
Proposes a scoped fix, better thread continuity across meetings, rather than rebuilding a full chat platform.
Sets a specific adoption metric, distinguishing chat-only users from users who chat around meetings.

Trying to fully replace Slack instead of scoping to Zoom's actual meeting-centric use case.
No specific gap identified versus competitors.
Vague success metric with no segmentation.

Would you position this to compete with Slack directly, or stay meeting-centric?
What would you measure to know this feature is cannibalizing versus growing engagement?