Gaurav Dubey
PM Career
Discover my insightful videos on various forums on YouTube where I delve into topics surrounding career transition from a software engineering background into Product Management, as well as other important aspects of the field.
Walmart Interview experience - APM Role
New Initiatives at Intercom (Capstone project)
June 2024 - Capstone pmcurve platform
Problem Statement
As a VP of Product - New Initiatives at Intercom - Come up with an initiative that can get to PMF and scale in the next 3 years.
Cover :
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Figuring Out the Right Problem to Solve for a Company
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Convincing Leadership and Stakeholders on the Problem Thesis
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Sizing the Problem and Market Potential
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Frameworks to Master Industry Knowledge
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Research and Data to Master User Knowledge
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Finding Competitive Advantage and Positioning in the Internet Era
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Problem Framing and Prioritisation of Sub-Problems
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Critical Problem Solving
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Creative Problem Solving
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Designing the Right Kind of MVP for Your Product
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Building the Product Strategy and Roadmap
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Convincing Stakeholders on Product Strategy and Roadmap
Redesign the feature to increase its adoption for Live Product - BrowserStack
Case Study
Problem Statement:
BrowserStack currently provides a feature to file a bug directly onto JIRA after capturing it while
testing. Redesign the feature to increase its adoption for Live Product.
What we are expecting you to answer:
1. Hypothesis of who is facing this problem and why do they need a solution?
2. How do you measure success?
3. How do our competitors solve this problem?
4. What is the solution? How would you change the existing JIRA integration to increase adoption?
(Include Workflow, Scenario walkthrough, Wireframes, and Feasibility)
● Make sure that you provide a solution that works for BrowserStack Live Products (Live and
App Live)
● You can make relevant assumptions and state them in your submission.
Design research template for Perplexity Platform
2023-24
Problem Statement
You are the Product Manager for a popular Gen AI search engine, Perplexity. Your users have been requesting a new “research templates” feature that allows them to run pre-curated questions to get in-depth analyses with just a click and save them as templates. Your task is to decide whether to build this feature or not. If you decide to build it, explain why and how you would go about it. If you decide not to build it, explain your reasoning.
Design online experience for Edtech Platform
2021-22
Problem Statement
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An Ed Tech platform wants to build an online learning platform for a course, say Java Development
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Design online experience for the learner
Assumptions
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User has already purchased the course now arrived to attend the course
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User segment (3rd/4th year students) or job 1-2 years experienced
Design App for Drivers of Ninjacart
Date : 2020
Problem Statement
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Design an app for drivers in LML (Last mile logisitics) with problem statements and specs
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The app should help drivers with all the required information and also share real time data for central monitoring.
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Submission can be high level wireframes with brief problem statements/PRD
Non-Negotiables
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Driver has to follow the route plan, to adhere delivery time
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Driver has to use the app as required
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No crates can go missing. Driver has to collect the crates that he has dropped at a facility. If crates are lost, penalty will be levied on the driver
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Correct amount should be collected in cash from the customer by the driver
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Items returned by the customer should reach the depot without any loss
Increasing the number of wishlists for Retail App
Date: 2019. PhonePe APM round
Problem Statement
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What are the impediments for a customer to create wishlists?
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Are there other factors that decrease the relevance/prominence of this feature?
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How would you stack rank these reasons?
User Experience
Imagine yourself in the customer's shoes. How would you lead them to this feature in an efficient way and keep them interested?
Success
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What would success look like?
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How will we know our solutions are working and what metrics would you measure?
Increase watch time per video for Youtube
Date : 2019
Assignment for APM role at leading EdTech company
Problem Statement
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Currently, average watch time per video of YouTube is low.
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You’re Product Manager of YouTube India, given a goal to Increase Watch time per video of user from 1 min to 1.5 mins.
Banking App for Visually impaired
Date : 2019
Problem Statement
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Design a banking app for visually impaired users
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Make your own assumptions
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