United States

Graphic Design

UX Design

Branding and Identity Design

Jonathan Stephens

Co-Founder

Typography

Public Speaking

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Accessibility

Brand strategy

Branding

Conversion optimisation

Design systems

Information architecture

Product roadmap

Affinity

Airtable

Figma

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

GitHub

Trello

Vimeo

Workday

HTML

WordPress

Google Analytics

Time management

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Critical-thinking

Analytical skills

Blog writing

Business intelligence

Community management

Content strategy

Event organisation

Human computer interaction

Illustration

LinkedIn writing

Budget management

Tone consistency

Relationship management

Quantitative research

Partnership

Product analytics

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

I am responsible for leading a group of self steering teams who do continuous development and maintenance of our web based systems.

I support my teams and help them to grow toward their goals. I can hold your own in a technical argument, but I know getting out of the way is often the best option. I get things done via influence not authority. I work closely with our product owners to ensure we are always working towards what’s most important for our customers. And I take full end to end responsibility for my area.

Responsibilities
- Lead a growing group of cross-disciplinary agile development teams (designers, copywriters, developers, mobile app developers, quality specialists, user researchers)
- Coach and develop team leads as well as team members
- Attract, hire, develop and retain IT talent from around the world
- Work closely with Product Owners and Senior Product Owners
- Organize team structure to achieve strategic business priorities
- Support team leads in solving problems and issues within the team
- Act as an intermediary for complaints and problems
- Manage performance of teams and individuals reporting to you
- Interviewing and hiring of new roles for the Technology department

Responsibilities:
- Positively influence, guide and help other Designers to improve the quality of their work and the quality of our product. 
- Develop/participate in trainings for new-hires and other Designers at Booking.com
- Mentoring designers 
- Organize and facilitate designer meeting/gatherings
- Cross-platform design and experimentation, data analysis, user research.

Responsibilities
- Identify and grow talent, provide feedback and look after people’s personal development
- Assess individual performance, recognize and promote excellent performance, and address under-performance
- Facilitate a cross disciplinary agile team (small team of 4 – 6 people)
- Focus on supporting the business priorities, be pragmatic about technology choices
- Promote and encourage technical, business and people related initiatives that improve productivity, performance, and quality
- Design, develop and implement software that improves the Booking.com product in collaboration with the team
- Contribute to Booking.com’s growth through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts
- Continue to perform in core role as Designer

Role
- Comfortable with each part of the design process, from research to exceptional UI design, through to shipping production code
- Proficient with HTML & CSS
- Experience with template engines to display data from the backend – you’d be implementing your work using our in-house templating engine (don’t worry – we’ll show you the ropes!)
- Comfortable creating the wireframes, polished mockups, and prototypes needed to communicate them (e.g., Sketch, Framer, InVision)
- Strengths include being self-driven and taking full ownership of your ideas to solve challenging problem
- Comfortable working collaboratively with developers, product owners, and copywriters
- Thrive on feedback and critique, responding with creative thinking and iterative design
- Passionate advocate for the user, dedicated to the craft of design and creating elegant user experiences
- Understand and thrive in an environment which employs extensive A/B testing – Booking.com is a data-driven company

I am one of 3 graphic design interns designing and maintaining North Carolina's three recycling campaigns: Recycle Guys (recycleguys.org), RE3 (re3.org) and Recycle More NC (recyclemorenc.org). Specialising in web/interaction design and development. Other duties: exhibit design, print design, brand identity and maintaining/creating content for social media networks (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc).

Contracting as a web designer for an advertising agency based in Downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.

Working as head of a design team in charge of creating an interface and infographics for display screens visualizing kilowatt energy used in university dorms. The project exists both on interface and web, and is expanding from NC State University to Duke University, and UNC Chapel Hill. Products currently operational: Pack Pulse (http://packpulse.com)

Designed the daily newspaper, consisting of layout design, infographics, photo illustrations and graphic illustrations. Photographer consisted of shooting events around the campus as a journalist including all but not limited to sports, major events, daily happenings around campus, and interesting people.

- Design for the web
   - CMS/Templating (Wordpress, etc.)
   - HTML/CSS websites
- Animation/motion design
- Branding, identity, systems design
- Design strategy

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