Sample Answer
I’ll use the customer onboarding redesign I owned at my last company. I was responsible from discovery through launch for reducing time-to-value for new mid-market customers. About six weeks before launch, our key dependency blew up: the third‑party identity verification vendor we relied on changed their API and pricing model, which would have increased our cost per verification by about 60% and forced a full re-integration. Engineering flagged that as at least a 4–6 week delay. I pulled together product, legal, finance, and engineering for a 48‑hour spike to evaluate alternatives. We shortlisted two vendors, ran test integrations in a sandbox, and did a quick security and legal review. In parallel, I simplified the onboarding flow so we could ship a leaner version first. We ended up switching vendors, launching only two weeks late instead of six. Onboarding completion rates still improved from 63% to 81%, and average onboarding time dropped from 5 days to just under 2.5 days within the first quarter.
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