Design Leadership at Scale: Career Strategy
4.6 (5)
2 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Frameworks, tactics, and approaches we’ve shared in career conversations for years, so you can build a great design leadership career.
Design Leadership at Scale: Career Strategy
4.6 (5)
2 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Frameworks, tactics, and approaches we’ve shared in career conversations for years, so you can build a great design leadership career.
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Course overview
Shape a design career that provides you growth, development, and success.
Design Leadership at Scale: Career Strategy is tailored specifically for design leaders looking to define their career path. (6 hours live class, combining lectures, breakout groups, online content, and two in-depth office hours with Rachel and Kristin to discuss your specific challenges and opportunities.)
The course is built on practical insights and experiences, offering a hands-on approach to career development. Rachel and Kristin have defined hiring practices for some of the largest global companies and hired thousands of designers; now, they’re bringing the same career coaching and frameworks to this course.
Whether you want to advance within your current organization or explore new opportunities, this course will help you define your blueprint for success.
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1: ARCHITECT YOUR CAREER
• Define Your Leadership Trajectory: Explore diverse pathways in design leadership and carve out a unique trajectory that positions you as a standout leader.
• Hone Your Leadership Edge: Understand the essentials that set you apart as a design leader, with a focus on practical application and self-assessment.
• Leverage Your Unique Strengths: Conduct a deep dive into your capabilities and align them with industry benchmarks to create a personalized growth plan that propels your career forward.
• Craft a Strategic Career Plan: Develop a forward-looking, actionable career strategy that aligns your skills with your professional aspirations, ensuring you’re always moving towards your ultimate goals.
2: ADVANCE YOUR IMPACT
• Elevate Your Expertise: Pinpoint critical areas for growth and take decisive steps to elevate your expertise, ensuring you stay ahead at every stage of your career.
• Define Success on Your Terms: Set and achieve clear, measurable goals that align with your personal vision of success, driving your progress and holding yourself accountable.
• Map Your Career Strategy: Create a comprehensive, action-oriented career roadmap, drawing on expert strategies for long-term success.
• Become an Industry Standout: Learn advanced strategies for distinguishing yourself in a competitive market and gain the insider knowledge needed to make your mark.
• Make Informed Career Moves: Equip yourself with the knowledge to select the right roles and opportunities that align with your long-term vision, ensuring each move advances your career strategy.
BONUS:
• Evaluating Opportunities: Learn the art of assessing companies and roles through the lens of experienced design executives.
• 2 In-depth Office Hours / Q+A Sessions: Dedicated sessions with Rachel and Kristin to discuss your specific challenges and opportunities, receiving tailored guidance to propel your career forward.
Accelerate your career and refine your path. This immersive is an investment in defining and achieving your design leadership career goals.
Who is this course for
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Ambitious Senior Managers, Directors, and VP-level design leaders in both startups and large technology product companies.
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It's ideal for those planning on staying and growing at your current company for the next 3+ years or are thinking of changing companies.
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This course is not for aspiring design managers and early-career design managers. It does not focus on the detailed steps of skill-building.
What you’ll get out of this course
Get the career outcomes you want
Gain insights on what hiring managers look for in candidate profiles. Understand factors that make a portfolio stand out, tactics that increase your chances of being hired, recognized, and promoted, + selecting the role and organization that aligns with your career objectives.
Gain deeper design industry understanding
Immerse yourself in the intricate landscape of the design industry. Gain clarity on various career paths and development tactics, setting the stage for better informed career decisions. Conduct an analysis of the design sector to spot the right opportunities.
Develop your career blueprint
Formulate a definitive, actionable career plan, anchored in your unique strengths and goals. Establish a personal framework that propels your professional growth and development.
Navigate the current environment
Equip yourself with strategies to navigate the uncertainties of the job market. Learn the key to distinguishing yourself in a competitive market.
Grow your professional network
Forge valuable connections with fellow professionals and seasoned industry experts in a dynamic, collaborative setting. Become part of the Defining Experience community to keep the momentum and conversation going.
Exclusive Office Hours
Take advantage of two dedicated Q+A sessions with Rachel and Kristin for tailored advice and insights.
Toolkit for Success
Leave with a collection of essential frameworks and actionable tools designed for making informed decisions, effective career planning, and planning your next steps with confidence.
This course includes
4 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
2 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
9 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Design Leadership at Scale: Career Strategy
Course syllabus
Week 1
Session 1: Architect Your Career
Oct
19
Session 1: Architect Your Career
Oct
19
Optional: Q+A w/ Rachel + Kristin
Session 2: Advance Your Impact
Oct
20
Session 2: Advance Your Impact
Oct
20
Optional: Q+A w/ Rachel + Kristin
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Meet your instructors
Rachel Kobetz
Chief Design Officer, PayPal
Rachel Kobetz is the Chief Design Officer of PayPal. Her ability to shape product cultures that humanize technology and forge meaningful connections between products and consumers has made her a sought-out operator, indispensable advisor, and industry thought leader. Previously, Rachel held prominent leadership positions at Expedia Group, Bank of America, Amazon, and Samsung.
Rachel is the founder of Design Leadership at Scale, a Founding Member of the Design Leaders Community, board member for the Fast Company Executive Board, and ADC Jury Member for The One Club For Creativity. She also writes the influential newsletter Defining Experience, providing insights and actionable ideas about design leadership, experience-led culture, emerging technology, and the future of work.
Kristin Skinner
Chief Experience Officer, &GSD
Kristin has made it her mission to make organizations more effective.
As a design executive and globally recognized expert on organization design, management, and operations, Kristin has designed and executed organizational transformations in her executive leadership roles at Expedia Group, Chase, Capital One, Adaptive Path, and Microsoft.
In 2017, Kristin founded &GSD, a customer experience consultancy, that addresses the common problems many organizations face – organization design, scale, and the resulting change management – and has advised executive leaders at Nike, Grab, Adobe, Zendesk, Airbnb, Netflix, Disney, SK Telecom, USAA, Wells Fargo, Grubhub, and the country of Ireland.
Kristin is a frequent global conference keynoter, panelist, and workshop leader. As a community builder, she co-created the DesignOps Summit series and led curation for its first five years.
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