Managing Design Teams From 0 to 1
About the Event
As a continuation of our recent conversation on building startup design teams from the ground up, we’re now turning our attention to managing early-stage design teams: from onboarding new designers to carving out career paths to building a thriving design culture. In our upcoming event, hear from three experienced design leaders about their path into management and their advice on leading design teams, particularly as a first-time manager.
We’ll dive into topics like:
Who makes a great design manager
Setting up new hires for success
Defining levels and career paths
Building a remote culture that attracts great designers
Balancing management, hiring, and execution responsibilities
Advocating for and communicating the value of design
About the Speakers
Carly Lodge, Senior Design Manager at Instagram: As a product design leader and manager, Carly has spent over a decade helping companies focus on a seamless user experience with beautiful and intuitive design. She has worked with clients such as Jon Bon Jovi, America’s Cup, Fillmore Merchants' Association and more. She is currently a senior design manager at Instagram. Prior to that she led the UX team for Hipmunk where design and user experience is a core focus of the company. Carly began her career as a high school art teacher and finds design leadership to be a perfect intersection of her two major passions: solving real problems through human centered design and supporting the growth individuals on her team.
Catt Small, Director of Product Design at All Turtles: Catt is a product design leader, game maker, and developer. She is currently the Director of Product Design at All Turtles. Catt has done design work for companies of all sizes including Asana, Etsy, SoundCloud, and Nasdaq. She started programming interactive games around the age of 10 and has been going ever since. In her spare time, Catt makes awkward video games, writes, and draws artwork of all kinds. You can view her work at www.cattsmall.com.
Jacob Zukerman, Head of Product at Mento: Jacob has over 15 years of experience across a wide range of design practices, shipping products, and leadership. Currently, he is the Chief Product Officer at Mento, a career coaching and development platform, overseeing product, design, and engineering. Before joining Mento, he scaled and led design organizations at Tally, Remix, and held multiple leadership roles at Google.