Games bring joy, happiness and value into peoples lives. Building teams and making leaders results in a better game team.

I'm Raul Salcedo.
Games Industry Product Leader
based in NYC

EXPERIENCE

Leveling up my career & companies.

1.5y-cur

RIVAL, SVP of Product

Develop and manage Rival X global games platform, P&L & Roadmap, lead Dev team, collaborate with clients & partners, oversee player xp, and productize new features to drive business and meet KPIs.

3yrs

Fluent / Vesey Studios, Head of Product

Driving the integrated mobile app product roadmap, analyzing analytics to monitor app performance, and managing development teams to prioritize backlog requirements

1yr

HEED, Lead Product Manager - Creation & Production

HEED, Lead Product Manager - Creation & Production Shipped MVP, managed executive roadmap and connected NYC leadership team to Israel dev shop.

3yrs

TOPPS, Product Lead, CRM Manager, Localization

Managed 15 live operations teams, rebuilt development studio, directed CRM team and system

8yrs

Gameloft, Deployment Manager, Producer, Focus Groups, Researcher

From researcher to Game Producer, deployed over 90 Gameloft games from flip phones to iOS.

4yrs

Binghamton University, BA Film & Media
Studies 07'

Shot on 8 mm and 16mm film, studied cinema and cinematography, practiced the Meisner theatre technique and explored book to film adaptation.

MY XP

17 years in the game industry. I Enjoy, building relationships and learning new tech. Building teams, mastering the arts of product management, testing new products, researching tech news, all things metaverse and enjoy feel-good stories of motivation and encouragement.

DOWNLOAD MY RESUMEPODCAST - ENGAGEMENT & MONETIZATION

Showcase

Collection of my works in my career and published games.

Brands & Partnerships

Produced and shipped branded/ licensed games, apps & communities

Product Philosophy & Values

I aim to know the strategy, roadmaps, markets, and plans. I am the CEO of my product and use über creativity to find the special sauce and make all the decisions. I aim to get everyone onboard with a vision, and find the soft skills of each team member to embrace how valuable they are to the vision. I believe in leadership training and tapping into purpose, cause and belief as to why we build products is important.

Strategic Leader

As a strategic leader, I utilize the power of influencing my colleagues to look at the bigger picture and work towards our long-term goals. It gives companies the much-needed advantage over competitors

Team Builder

In the same way that a culture cannot remain stagnant, work processes and ideas cannot remain stagnant in order for a company to be successful. Companies can encourage innovation by hiring employees that do not like to fail and then create a culture that gives them the opportunity to try.

Create Products

Your product strategy needs to be realistic, while at the same time being enough of a stretch to get your team gets excited about building the product.

Deliver Value

How to deliver value ??? Value for user is a critically important product concept. It’s at the bottom of product/market fit, growth, revenue and basically much more. A product can be buggy, user experience can suck, your marketing budget may be zero and yet high-value will attract customers your product and make them use it again and again. On the flip side if you can’t demonstrate value early and clearly, no one will stick around to try your product a second time.

DEI & International Team Management

One of my proudest achievements in my gaming career is taking part in
company's DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) initiatives.  I have learned
to listen, show empathy and become a strong leader to be able to manage
teams from across the world and build strong cultural connections.

Also checkout locations of the teams I have managed👇🏼

Teams I have worked with:

LinkedIN

Check me out on LinkedIN. As a tech enthusiast and I post news to stay up to date in all things tech, metaverse and game industry topics.

Connect with me on LinkedIN

References

What my managers say about me...

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‘’What impressed me was his ability to manage a diverse and distributed team of designers, developers and QA resources on the app side while continuing to engage with the core web business as needed in sharing best practices and supporting demand and supply side integration points....’’
Ram Rao
(Previous) Senior Vice President & Mobile General Manager of Mobile, Fluent / Vesey Studios
‘’Raul is a versatile, creative and thorough product manager. He is a very effective communicator and presenter. His super power is the ability to connect with and motivate a wide range contributors from other product managers, to creatives and engineers...’’
Boris Kizelshteyn
(Previous) Vice President of Product Management, HEED
‘’If a single word could define him, it would be commitment. If an action could define him, it would be : "seek of others’ satisfaction”. And here we’re talking about Customers, Partners, Colleagues and, of course, Managers...’’
Adrian Gimate
(Previous) Deployment Manager & Deputy Studio Manager, GAMELOFT
‘’He understands the business, but more importantly, the intricacies of what it takes to build and manage products. Raul single-handedly turned around the operational efforts of our team from a number of angles: creation of platforms, implementation of efficient work methods, CRM, and data and analytics management...’’
Chris Vaccaro
(Previous) Director, Digital & Editor-in-Chief, TOPPS

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