Role-Playing Accelerator: “You are the CPO of Figma.”
What if you could experience critical decisions from your CPO's perspective? What if this experience was lightweight enough to fit your schedule, and deep enough to make new breakthroughs.
Over 4 weeks, you'll step into the role of Figma's Chief Product Officer during a critical moment of AI disruption. This isn't just about playing a role – it's about understanding product executive decision-making and applying these insights to your own approach as a design leader.
This accelerator will help you:
- Understand a CPO’s responsibilities and challenges
- Experience how a CPO approaches decisions
- Decode how a CPO develops a new product strategy
- Practice new strategic problem-solving and communication techniques
- Reflect on how these insights apply to design leadership
Our Scenario: Figma at a Critical Moment
You're the Chief Product Officer at Figma, facing a crucial strategic challenge: How should AI reshape the product strategy? With competitors launching AI features weekly, worrisome financial signals, your team divided on direction, and customers expressing mixed feelings, you must:
- Navigate alternate perspectives from design, engineering, and business teams
- Balance short-term competitive pressures with long-term product vision
- Consider implications for user trust and community goodwill
- Make decisions with incomplete information in a rapidly evolving space
Role-Playing exercises you’ll practice
- Week 1: Asking the questions a CPO might ask
- Week 2: Sharing strategic options with the CEO
- Week 3: Communicating the Product Strategy to peers
- Week 4: Detailing how the Product Strategy connects to Design
Time investment and format
- Four, 90-minute live sessions
- 1 hour of pre-work before each session
- Troika Consulting: Groups of 3 taking turns playing the “CPO,” and the others as “peers.”
- Dozens of templates, preparation materials, and resources included
Date options
- Tuesdays, January 7 - 28, 2025 at 11am EDT
- Wednesdays, January 8 - 29, 2025 at 9am AEDT
Requirements
An active CDO School Pro subscription through January 28, 2025.