Design Manager

For senior designers preparing to lead, and design leads scaling from 5 to 30+ designers. Covers people management (Julie Zhuo's 1:1 template, Kim Scott's COIN feedback), team building (Amy Edmondson's psychological safety, Merholz & Skinner's org-design patterns), design operations (system governance, design-as-product NPS), hiring (portfolio rubrics, Airbnb-style take-homes), and the executive-language skills required to make design a fundable investment instead of a cost center. Built on Lara Hogan's Resilient Management, Camille Fournier's The Manager's Path, and the practices Stripe, Notion, Linear, and Airbnb use to run high-performing design orgs.