United States

Product Design

UX Design

Service Design

Generalist Product Management

Interaction Design

Masters Degree

B.F.A.

Ron Goldin

Product Design Director

Product strategy

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

AI/ML

Design systems

Human computer interaction

User research

Airtable

Canva

ChatGPT

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

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

General mentorship

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

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

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 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

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

Design career path

Supporting a team of designers and managers on a transformational effort to unite, simplify and evolve best-in-class Enterprise products for the world’s biggest retailer.

Our team’s portfolio is responsible for a business that brings in over half a trillion dollars in revenue. Our work is about how to get the most affordable, high quality products to hundreds of millions of consumers a week, quickly and easily. We aspire to work with a diverse set of roles across Walmart on how we might modernize processes for determining what products to sell, where, when and how they’re made available to customers, and ensuring they’re available and “on the shelves” where and when our customers need them, whether in brick-and-mortal retail, in the rapidly growing online space, or a combination of the two.

• Led a multi-disciplinary design team (product design, research, content) responsible for the operating system and design system for a new hardware product.
• Shipped over 80+ features supporting dozens of product teams comprised of hundreds of engineers. 
• Key contributor to standing up Quality and collaboration processes to measure and validate launch readiness and raise the design bar across the Reality Labs org.

• Helped billions of daily users to seek out local destinations such as restaurants, shopping, services and attractions for Google's Local Search. Key launches: Local Search, Visual Search, Categorical Search.
• Managed a team responsible for data visualization products for Google retail, resulting in improved business intelligence for out-of-home advertising and brick and mortar investments valued at over $XB (Core UX team).

• Led Courier UX for Uber Eats, helping the platform scale internationally, from 22 to 120 cities.
• Improved new user acquisition, onboarding and day to day delivery experiences for couriers, resulting in increased growth, retention, NPS and lower acquisition costs, particularly in emerging markets.
• Pitched and launched a global philanthropic program to deliver excess restaurant food to charity organizations.

Head of Product & Design, Glamsquad (2016)
• Launched 4 new products including consumer applications (iOS, Web) and B2B (iOS, Android) for on-demand beauty services startup (Series B).
• Increased service professional NPS / retention, 1st booking, and return booking.

Head of Design, Kitchensurfing (2014-2016)
• Scaled and led a team responsible for UX design, research and brand identity for a Series B on-demand food subscription service.
• Shipped 3 products including consumer web/iOS apps, and back-of-house operations/logistics software.
• Worked directly with C-suite on introducing a lower price point subscription service for every day meals for families, and service design for a higher end events-focused dinner program.

Founder, Head of Product and Design; Akko (2010-2014)
• Launched and scaled a full service digital agency that partnered with over two dozen startups and Fortune 100’s on early stage product ideation and MVP launch
• Clients included American Express, Motorola, Bloomberg, Dolby, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Clinique, and Uber.
• Led Product Management and Design for self-funded hardware and software products feature in Apple's iOS store, notable press and design awards.

Senior Product Designer, LUNAR (2007-2010)
• Led multidisciplinary UX, industrial and engineering teams for LUNAR (acquired by McKinsey) for over a dozen clients spanning software, hardware and service design in consumer electronics, health and life sciences, and automotive design. 
• Notable clients: Mercedes-Benz, Hewlett-Packard, LG, Sotheby's, Roche, and Logitech.

Product Designer, PUNCHCUT (2006-2007)
• Designed mobile products for carriers, consumer electronics, and entertainment brands, responsible for visual and interaction design and design research. 
• Notable clients: AT&T, Samsung and Disney.

• Interaction/visual design, prototyping and research for several products, spanning connected TV, photos, and social networks. 
• Products: Windows Live Beta (2006); MSNTV (2005); Microsoft Research: Social Computing Group, Photo Sharing (2004)

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