Product Sense Interview Answer

This is a structured framework for answering open-ended PM interview questions like "How would you improve YouTube?" or "Design a product for travelers with flight anxiety." It walks you through a six-part answer spine: clarify the prompt, build rationale, define a product goal, segment users, prioritize pain points, then propose an MVP with explicit tradeoffs. The structure is designed to sound good out loud, not just on paper, and it forces you to pick a target user and pain point before jumping to features. Use it when coaching PM candidates who solution-jump too early or when you want a repeatable way to turn messy ideation into a crisp 20-minute mock interview answer.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add deanpeters/product-manager-skills --skill product-sense-interview-answer --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Purpose

Help PM candidates and interview coaches structure product-sense answers that sound strong out loud, not just on paper. Use this when practicing prompts like "How would you improve X?", "Design a product for Y", or "What would you build next for Z?"

This is not a memorize-and-recite script. It is a reasoning scaffold that prevents solution-jumping, forces real prioritization, and leaves the interviewer with a clean story they can follow.

Input

Works best with: The interview prompt you're practicing (e.g., 'How would you improve X?', 'Design a product for Y'). Also useful: The company/role you're interviewing for and how much time the answer gets.

Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended ARGUMENTS: line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask.

Arriving empty-handed? That works too. The skill asks for the prompt, then walks the reasoning scaffold with you out loud.

Example invocation: Practice this: 'How would you improve Google Maps for commuters?' — 25-minute answer, L5 PM loop.