Product design question
You’re a PM at Meta; build a product for climate change.
- Meta
- Product design
- Medium
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What this question tests
Tests product design for an ambitious, loosely scoped social-impact brief: can you narrow 'climate change' to a concrete, buildable product tied to Meta's actual strengths.
How to approach it
- Narrow the broad brief: 'climate change' spans awareness, behavior change, and organizing, so pick local climate action coordination, which fits Meta's Groups and Events well.
- Identify the user: people who want to take local climate action but lack an easy way to find organized efforts and see collective impact.
- Design the core feature: a climate-action hub within Groups/Events that surfaces local events, tracks aggregate impact with a shared counter, and connects users to verified organizations.
- Leverage Meta's assets: existing Groups and Events infrastructure, and the social graph to show which friends are participating, using social proof to drive participation.
- Address credibility: partner with verified environmental organizations to vet events and impact claims, avoiding greenwashing or misinformation risk.
- Define success as local events created and attended through the platform, and repeat participation, not page views.
What a strong answer includes
- Narrows an intentionally broad prompt to one specific, buildable angle, local climate action coordination, rather than a vague awareness campaign.
- Leverages Meta's actual existing infrastructure, Groups, Events, social graph, as the real differentiator versus a generic new app.
- Addresses credibility risk directly by partnering with verified organizations, aware that climate content carries real misinformation risk.
- Picks a behavioral metric, events attended and repeat participation, over passive awareness metrics like impressions.
Common mistakes
- Staying too abstract, proposing 'raise climate awareness' without a concrete feature or mechanism.
- Ignoring Meta's actual existing product assets (Groups, Events) that would be the natural foundation for this idea.
- No credibility or fact-checking mechanism for a topic where misinformation is a known, serious risk.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you verify the legitimacy of local climate organizations surfaced in the hub?
- How would you measure real-world impact versus just platform engagement?
- How would you avoid this becoming a target for greenwashing by corporate partners?
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Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovery and strategy for AI products
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