Pilot | GitLab Design Talks: Career Development - From IC to Leadership
What and why
Create a series of recorded discussions looking into career development through the lens of ICs that transitioned to Leadership in the UX department. The goal is to showcase examples of the type of work Staff and Managers do, how the roles differ from each other and others while being transparent that moving into those roles are not exclusive to responsibilities performed by individuals.
We will look at career development from a number of different perspectives in 15-20m conversations. Videos will be recorded and added to GitLab Unfiltered.
By speaking about our trajectories, we also want to encourage managers to look for opportunities to work with ICs in their growth and development that may include things besides a change in title--like education, conferences, special projects, internal and external mentorship programs, etc.
Goals
- Give other members of the UX Department clarity on Staff and Design Manager roles and responsibilities.
- Transparently share the trajectories for folks that transitioned from IC to Leadership roles.
- Give insight on how their career development looked like.
- (stretch) Update the handbook and job families pages for Staff and Product Design Manager.
Discussion topics
- How leadership is not about your title and can come from any level.
- Design background and career path from IC to Leadership.
- What are your current responsibilities? What do you work on? What does a regular week look like?
- What are the challenges of your current role?
- Why did you decide to move into a Leadership role? How did you come to that conclusion?
- What internal and external learning and development opportunities did you seek? How did those influence your career?
- How to navigate the transition/challenges of a new role?
- What areas of your work or personal development are you hoping to explore further?
Slack channel
#ux-talks-leadership-pilot