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A podcast about work life, company culture, & hiring. Brought to you by Authentic Jobs, the leading job board for web professionals.
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Debbie Millman is the Chief Marketing Officer of Sterling Brands and host of Design Matters, the longest running podcast on design. We explore how to present yourself authentically, giving a “gift” to audiences when speaking, and transparency.
Margaret Gould Stewart is the VP of Product Design at Facebook, previously at YouTube and Google. She shares remarkable insights for designing at scale, managing change aversion, fostering workplace diversity at scale, and the uncanny link between theater and enterprise collaboration.
Cap Watkins is no stranger to change. He’s led changes at Amazon and Etsy, and he’s now an agent of change as the VP of Design at BuzzFeed. We discuss his audacity to incite changes to company process, beginning with teaching BuzzFeed designers to code and ending with hiring for curiosity and adaptation. See also Your Org is a Product.
Mike Davidson, former VP of Design at Twitter, offers a candid look at work life in San Francisco. We explore some of the points made in his retrospective article including diversity, contributors vs. managers, and the decision-making of that crazy final play in the 2015 Super Bowl.
Liz Danzico is Creative Director of NPR and manages the team almost fully remotely. We discuss the pros & cons of working and managing remotely, as well as her role as Chair of the MFA Interaction Design graduate program at SVA. Oh, and making fresh bread.
Wilson Miner is the Director of Digital Design for The California Sunday Magazine. His career has spanned Facebook, Apple, and the now-defunct Rdio. We discuss highlights from Wilson’s career, his famous “When We Build” talk, why design alone couldn’t save Rdio’s illustrious streaming music service. (Photo by Monica Semergiu.)
2Garrett Gee was still a student in college when he pitched his app on ABC’s Shark Tank. None of the sharks took the bait, and a year later he was acquired by Snapchat for $54 million. Garrett and his family have been traveling the world as The Bucket List Family.
Mandy Brown, Director of Platform at Vox Media, and host Cameron Moll discuss diversity in the hiring process and why it’s so hard to do well.
Cameron chats with Greg Beldam and John Duff, Director of Product Design and Director of Engineering respectively, prior to Shopify's successful IPO. Topics range from examining the team structure needed to support 140,000+ active stores to red flags during the hiring process, the expense of flying in candidates from around the world for all-day interviews, and more.
Myles Grant is a Senior Staff Engineer at Slack, one of the fastest growing communication tools on the web. In this episode, we discuss Slack's origin story, his interviewing process, and moonlighting work on Authentic Jobs dating back to 2007.
Bob Baxley, Head of Product Design at Pinterest, covers a lot of ground in just 28 minutes. Product design at Pinterest, sourcing talent in the Bay Area, portfolio reviews, unsolicited redesigns, work/life balance, and what it was like working with Steve Jobs as the former Director of Design for the Apple Online Store.
Electric Pulp is located in South Dakota, yet many of their clients are in Los Angeles. In this episode, Aaron Mentele, Partner and Developer, shares what it’s like to run a web studio in a “tech deficient” location, how they hire remote full-time employees, advice for people wanting to break into the industry, and more.
Known to the design world as Swissmiss, Tina Roth Eisenberg has her hands in many things. In this episode, Tina shares how she balances it all (unscientifically), why enthusiasm is her superpower, and why asking candidates to include jokes with their application is the best hiring decision she’s made.Be sure to check out some of Tina’s job openings:Customer & Administrative Support @ TattlyContent Curator @ Creative Mornings, a “mini Maria Popova” in Tina’s wordsCommunity Coordinator @ Creative Mornings
Jared Spool and Leslie Jensen-Inman are the founders of Center Centre, a new bricks-and-mortar school in Chattanooga (United States) with a revolutionary approach to educating user experience designers. They sat down with Cameron to discuss their approach, faculty, and new student admissions.
On the tails of winning an Apple Design Award at WWDC 2014, Paul Mayne chats with Cameron about Day One, the popular journaling app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. They discuss how Day One got its start, managing a remote team, the challenges of a designer CEO, and the search for a Senior iOS Engineer.
Russ Maschmeyer shares his path from musician to Product Designer Manager at Facebook, what they look for when hiring, and the thrill of working at a company during an IPO.
Cameron sits down with Matt Mullenweg, best known for developing WordPress. Matt discusses the history of WordPress, working remotely, distributed offices, and the importance of customer service. Automattic is hiring! Check out their listings on Authentic Jobs and more on their site.
In this episode of Hired, Cameron sits down with FiftyThree co-founders Andrew Allen and Julian Walker. The three discuss the history of FiftyThree, how they hire, their award-winning Paper, and the just-released Pencil.
In this episode, Cameron sits down with Teehan+Lax cofounder, Geoff Teehan. Geoff gives his thoughts on hiring with your gut, developing the Medium project, and how Teehan+Lax came to be. With deep thoughts from the “office dog.”
Cameron catches up with fellow designer, Ryan Sims, of Rdio. As Head of Design, Ryan discusses a wide range of topics including creative blocks, talent vs. personality in the hiring process, and transitioning from a full-time designer to manager.
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