Hiring is a top 5 challenge for design leaders.

How do the best leaders build their design dream teams?

A thread on the most effective hiring practices, according to 1000s of design leaders. 🧵

(from the preso @ #Remotedesignweek) Let's start w/ the % of time design leaders spend recruiting.

"How much time do you spend recruiting?"
Same question, 2 years apart. Look at that upward trend! 👀

Why? Teams are scaling, and you have to recruit. @jaffoneh says it best:

https://twitter.com/jaffoneh/status/1447300448122142724

Since 2016, I've had conversations with ~5000 design leaders at 200+ dinners and ~100 virtual events, and lots of slack threads. I also helped drive some industry benchmarking reports.

I finally synthesized all the notes.

A thread on lessons learned about design leadership. 🧵 Top design-leadership challenges in product design.

- hiring/retaining talent
- building consistent end-to-end UX at scale
- maturing the function
- operationalizing design
- establishing trust with the c-suite

(in no particular order^)