Sample Answer
In my most recent role, I joined as an individual contributor focused mainly on execution for a customer onboarding project. At first, my day-to-day was pretty tactical: running weekly status updates, tracking tasks in Jira, and making sure we hit our migration deadlines for about 40 mid-market customers. About six months in, the company shifted strategy and asked me to turn that work into a repeatable onboarding program. Overnight, I went from “doing the work” to owning the end-to-end process. I started mapping the existing workflow, pulled three months of data on onboarding cycle time and churn risk, and identified where we were losing about two weeks per customer in handoffs. I partnered with sales and product to redesign the playbook, introduced a simple intake form and a shared dashboard, and trained a team of four CSMs. Within a quarter, average time-to-value dropped from 45 to 27 days and capacity per CSM increased by roughly 30%.
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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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