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Marketing manager

Covers planning and budget calls, audience insight, launches, measurement and working with sales and product. Suits mid and senior marketing managers who own a plan and a budget. Follow-ups push for real numbers, the trade-offs made and what the candidate personally decided.

Suits: Marketing manager, Senior marketing manager, Head of marketing, Product marketing manager

Questions
7 of 17
Length
35 min
Format
Voice or typed
Levels
Mid to Senior
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Example
  1. Interviewer: Tell me about a time you changed someone's mind at work. How did you go about it?

  2. Candidate: Our team wanted to rebuild the billing page from scratch, and I thought it was the wrong call, so we put together a plan to…

  3. Follow-up

    Interviewer: You said "we". What did you say yourself, and what finally changed their mind?

  4. Scored on

    • Strategy and prioritisation30%
    • Measurement25%
    • Execution25%
    • Collaboration and influence20%

    Score, reasons and recording. Your team decides.

An example exchange. This interview's own questions open when you use it.

What it listens for, and how much each part counts.

Every answer is scored against this guide, with the reasoning written beside the score. You get the recording or the written answers too, and your team makes the call.

  • Strategy and prioritisation30%
    Makes clear choices about audience, message and money, and explains the trade-offs.
  • Measurement25%
    Ties work to business outcomes and changes course on evidence.
  • Execution25%
    Plans and delivers launches and campaigns on time with a clear owner for each part.
  • Collaboration and influence20%
    Works with sales, product and leaders to agree goals and settle disagreement.
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