Behavioral & Leadership: Influencing Without Authority Under Tight Deadlines

Scenario

You are a Senior Data Analyst supporting a streaming product. Four partner teams disagree on the success metric and the launch risks. You have ≤ 2 weeks to drive alignment and a decision.

Prompt

Walk me through, concretely and with your own actions:

1. The specific decision, options considered, and constraints (e.g., engineering bandwidth, content timelines, legal/compliance).
2. How you defined the north-star and guardrail metrics, aligned stakeholders, and handled conflicting incentives.
3. The analyses you chose (e.g., causal vs. correlational; experiment vs. quasi-experiment) and why; key assumptions and how you validated them.
4. A difficult stakeholder interaction: what you said/did to resolve it, and how you balanced speed vs. rigor.
5. The decision you drove, the measurable outcome post-launch, and what you would change in hindsight.

Be concrete about your actions, not just the team’s.