As this is a player-coach role, how do you balance your time between leadership and IC contribution?
Design Manager Interview Questions
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Have you ever had to help a member of your team decide between multiple career paths? How did you approach it? Tell me about a time when a PM on a product team didn’t understand or value design and constantly left the designer out of important discussions -- what did you do? Tell me about a time when you set goals for your team. How did it go? Describe a time when you were not only responsible for leading a team of people, but also for doing the same job as your team members? How did you balance your time? ......
Basic discussions around resume and experience as it relates to the role's responsibilities.
What is my approach as a manager and creative lead? What are my primary strengths and weaknesses as a designer?
Asked some simple behavioral interview questions
Standard questions about process, management style, UX research/insights, how I use data and analytics, projects that have gone well or that I'm proud of, projects that didn't go well, how I handled hard conversations with both my managers and direct reports, and a few more.
How to measure team performance
Usual ones, what are your defects? why do you think you're right for this position? etc.
How did you hear about this position?
Describe career history, and highlight how it applies to the advertised role.
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