Argentina

Pablo Zarate

Product Design expert, strategist & consultant — Currently Design Leader

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

General mentorship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

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

Building an effective team

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

Fostering a good team culture

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

Keeping team members motivated

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

Managing a remote team

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

Managing people

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

Dealing with imposter syndrome

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

Managing burnout

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

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

Choosing metrics and team goals

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

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

Presenting your work with impact

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

Running effective meetings

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

Working cross-functionally

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

Design career path

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

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

Working with product and engineering

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

Conducting good user research

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

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

Launching new products or features

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

Onboarding new users

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

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

Working with engineers

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

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

Making better tech choices

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Hi, I'm Pablo Zarate (He / Him)🇦🇷