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The recipe for developing your career as a product designer

Intercom, Inc.

Picture this: You’re a product designer with a handful of years on your career path. You’ve cut your teeth on a few big launches and earned your stripes as a solid “mid level” product designer. Like many designers, you’re curious and ambitious. Results: The main ingredient of career development.

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Redesigning our job levels for product designers

Intercom, Inc.

The only thing harder than designing a product is designing your career. For instance, the Design Career Index shows that 71% of design orgs don’t have a career progression framework. But if you don’t have a map for your career, then how do you know where you’re going?

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Product Judgment: How some people can repeatedly create product success

Intercom, Inc.

Let’s talk about that trickiest of subjects: Product Judgment. Also known as Product Intuition or Product Instinct or Product Taste, it is the idea that you can use your own judgment to (1) accurately predict what your customers need, want and value, and (2) design and ship the right solution for them.

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What we look for when we hire designers at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

So if you’re considering a design job at Intercom , we won’t make it harder by forcing you to read our minds or guess about what we value. When you interview for a design job, the process is usually mysterious: did you say the right things? Our principles help us make decisions about strategy, roadmaps, design, and more.

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Evolving your Product Management career ladder

Intercom, Inc.

Product Management is an elusive craft. And what makes this even harder is that, because PMs own so few clear deliverables (such as code or designs), it can be tricky to pinpoint what exact impact a PM had on a team. Career ladders to the rescue. This is where career ladders come to the rescue.

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The recipe for growth as a designer

Intercom, Inc.

Picture this: You’re a designer with a handful of years experience under your belt. You’ve cut your teeth on a few big launches and earned your stripes as a solid “mid level” product designer. Like many designers, you’re curious and ambitious. Results: The main ingredient of career growth. What about in five years?

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Leadership without management: Expanding our Product Design career path

Intercom, Inc.

Many designers become managers for the wrong reasons. If you’re a senior designer it may seem like the obvious next step. But I quickly learned that people management is a vastly different job than being a designer. My day was filled with back-to-back meetings discussing org design, hiring, and people issues.