Sample Answer
At Acme, I led ops for a 12-person product team supporting ~200k users. I used a simple, visible prioritization rubric: safety/uptime first (P0 incidents), revenue-impact next, then customer experience and long-term automation. For example, during a quarter when headcount dropped 25%, we triaged on-call pages to a one-page-1-hour SLT response and delayed a noncritical release. I quantified trade-offs—estimating a 3-hour outage cost of ~$45k vs. a feature delay revenue of ~$6k/week—and shared that with PMs and engineering leads to get alignment. I also carved out 10% sprint capacity for automation, which later cut manual deploy time from 90 to 10 minutes, freeing 12 hours/week for the team. Clear metrics and transparent trade-offs made stakeholders cooperative instead of frustrated.
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