Behavioral & Leadership: Ambiguity, Dependencies, and Execution Under Pressure

You will describe one real project where you faced high ambiguity and cross‑team dependencies.

Answer the following:

(a) Why this company/team and why this career move now? Tie to mission, the metrics you would own, and specific domain challenges.

(b) Describe the project’s goal, how you got staffed, the stakeholders (internal/external), and your role. What was hard and why?

(c) Midway, a Sev‑1 incident creates an urgent deliverable due in 48 hours. Walk through your prioritization framework across four concurrent projects, explicitly trading quality vs. time. What did you cut, defer, or parallelize? How did you communicate risk and secure alignment?

(d) Recount a disagreement with a key stakeholder on methodology or scope. How did you surface assumptions, gather evidence, and influence without authority? What was the resolution and what metrics moved?

(e) Reflect on outcomes and lessons. What would you do differently next time, and how would you institutionalize those improvements (e.g., playbooks, dashboards, SLAs)?