Sample Answer
On my first major project, I owned the effort to bring clarity to a very messy scope. We had a cross‑functional team of about 12 people and no one could agree on priorities, so everything moved slowly and we kept missing internal deadlines. I took the initiative to map all requests into a single, ranked backlog, tied each item to a simple business metric (revenue, cost, or risk), and got alignment from the project sponsor. From there, I set up a lightweight weekly planning routine and a simple dashboard in Excel: cycle time, on‑time delivery, and stakeholder satisfaction from a biweekly pulse survey. Within one quarter, on‑time delivery improved from roughly 55% to 88%, average cycle time dropped by about 30%, and our stakeholder satisfaction scores moved from 3.2 to 4.4 out of 5.
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Walk me through a recent multi-channel digital marketing campaign you managed end-to-end. How did you set objectives, choose channels, allocate budget, and measure success?
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