Behavioral question
You’re building a team of PMs who will be embedded in complex enterprise and government deployments, yet also need to influence core product direction. How would you design the hiring profile, staffing model, and coaching system for this team so that PMs can both unblock customers in the field and surface high-quality product insights back to the platform teams?
- Scale AI
- Behavioral
- Hard
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