Rosa Villegas

AMA: Zynga Senior Director of Product, Central Technology, Rosa Villegas on Establishing Product Management

August 2 @ 10:00AM PT
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Rosa Villegas
Zynga Senior Director of Product, Central Technology3y
Be adaptable to change - don't be afraid to try different things or change a process that is no longer working for the team. For a team that is growing quickly oftentimes...
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Rosa Villegas
Zynga Senior Director of Product, Central Technology3y
I touched on this a bit in previous questions, but some common challenges are: Perception that Product may slow the team down. Some teams are very execution-focused, whi...
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Rosa Villegas
Zynga Senior Director of Product, Central Technology3y
Within Central Technology we are organized into Product verticals: Game Services, Developer Services, and Infrastructure Services. Each of these verticals are comprised o...
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Rosa Villegas
Zynga Senior Director of Product, Central Technology3y
It takes a solid 6 months for any new leader to make an impact on an organization. My first goal is usually to build trust and gain as much context as possible before mak...
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Rosa Villegas
Zynga Senior Director of Product, Central Technology3y
There are a few different vectors to consider here. There is the effort/impact matrix, which is pretty good at helping identify low hanging fruit - essentially mapping ou...
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Rosa Villegas
Zynga Senior Director of Product, Central Technology3y
This is a really interesting question! I think one really great way of doing this is to engage design in understanding the problem you are trying to solve, not just the s...
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