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Zendesk: Career Architectures for Design Teams

• Design
• Brand Design

• Ryan Donahue
• 2018
• San Francisco
• No license specified

VP Global Design at Zendesk Ryan shares the frameworks his team recently rolled out for Designers, Design Managers and brand designers. Ten levels of seniority (I particularly like ‘Distinguished Product Designer’ as the most senior IC role) with parallel IC and Manager tracks.

Links from Zendesk

• Introduction

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• IC Career path (PDF)

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• Manager Career path (PDF)

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• Brand Designer Career path (PDF)

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