Strategy question
You need to run the same Sierra demo for three audiences at a prospective customer: the CEO, the head of support, and the engineering lead. How would you change the narrative, proof points, live flow, and objections you address for each audience?
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What this question tests
Tests audience-aware communication skill: adapting the same product demo's narrative, proof points, and flow for three very different stakeholders.
How to approach it
- For the CEO, lead with business outcomes, cost reduction, customer experience impact, and strategic positioning, keeping the live flow short and outcome-focused.
- For the head of support, lead with operational proof points, containment rate, CSAT versus current baseline, and escalation handling, with a longer live flow showing real conversation handling.
- For the engineering lead, lead with architecture, integration points, reliability guarantees, and observability, addressing technical objections directly rather than glossing over them.
- Keep the underlying product and capability identical across all three; only the narrative framing, proof points shown, and depth of live flow change.
- Prepare objection handling specific to each audience: cost skepticism for the CEO, workflow disruption for support, and technical risk for engineering.
- Close each version with a next step suited to the audience, a business case for the CEO, a pilot plan for support, and a technical deep-dive for engineering.
What a strong answer includes
- Keeps the underlying product identical and varies only framing, proof points, and depth, showing disciplined audience adaptation rather than three different pitches.
- Names audience-specific proof points, containment and CSAT for support, architecture and reliability for engineering, business outcomes for the CEO.
- Prepares audience-specific objection handling instead of one generic FAQ for all three.
Common mistakes
- Using the identical demo script and objections for all three audiences.
- Leading with technical detail for the CEO or business fluff for the engineering lead.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you handle it if the engineering lead raises an objection during the CEO's demo?
- What would you cut first if you only had time for one audience's full demo?
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Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovering and Sizing AI Opportunities
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