Tell me about a time when you didn't have enough data to make the right decision. What did you do? What path did you take? Did the decision turn out to be the correct one?
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Situation- I was assigned as a product manager for a streaming services app owning the subscription module. As a product manager, I had to make a decision as to what the optimum subscription price should be for the service
Task- To estimate proposed number of AVOD and SVOD subscribers thereby understand the projected revenue from subscriptions, ad monetization. This data will be used to compute the subscription price
Action- I could estimate the number of subscriber based on industry standards however it will difficult to measure the proposed ad monetization we do not have any other streaming app within the same company to run as a reference
Resolution-
I created a data set with critical path flows and then created data sets that could differentiate the various sub path taken in those data flows
These data sets were ingested into a logistic regression model to predict the engagement associated with the common flows for a given size of customer base.
This was then compared to engagement in other b2c apps in the company for sanity test purposes
The engagement data was used to estimate the proposed advertising revenue from the app
Task- To estimate proposed number of AVOD and SVOD subscribers thereby understand the projected revenue from subscriptions, ad monetization. This data will be used to compute the subscription price
Action- I could estimate the number of subscriber based on industry standards however it will difficult to measure the proposed ad monetization we do not have any other streaming app within the same company to run as a reference
Resolution-
I created a data set with critical path flows and then created data sets that could differentiate the various sub path taken in those data flows
These data sets were ingested into a logistic regression model to predict the engagement associated with the common flows for a given size of customer base.
This was then compared to engagement in other b2c apps in the company for sanity test purposes
The engagement data was used to estimate the proposed advertising revenue from the app
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