Designing Design Teams
About this training
How we shape design teams, hire, and develop people makes or breaks our effectiveness as leaders.
Learn to perform a maturity assessment and create a team roadmap based on goals like resilience, performance, and scaling.
Outline the hiring strategy and skills needed to work towards the next phase of maturity, and identify tradeoffs for roles (specialists vs generalists) and levels.
Training: Designing Design Teams
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What you'll learn
Who is this training for?
This training is tailored for design leaders in roles such as Design Manager, Senior Manager, Design Director, or Head of Design, who:
- Manage several designers or several design teams
- Operate in complex organisations
- Need to understand and elevate design team maturity
- Lead design teams through a period of change such as scaling, increased responsibility and influence, resilience, or performance improvement
- Outline a hiring and development strategy and tie it to business goals to secure investment
- Need to influence decision-makers
- Seek to understand the tradeoffs for roles (specialists vs generalists) and levels (IC vs leaders) and make tough resourcing decisions with confidence
Included in your ticket
Certificate of completion
to document your expertise
Live teaching
interactive sessions with time for questions
Hands-on exercises
apply what you learn during the sessions
Take-home artefacts
incl. examples & checklists
Recordings of online lessons
to revisit details anytime
Date and location
To be confirmed — waitlist is open.
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Jessa Parette
Senior Director of UX · Yum! Brands
Jessa is a leader who connects technology and strategy with intentional design. She is currently Senior UX Director at Yum! Brands where she leads teams creating successful experiences for brands like KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in a fast paced consumer environment. Previously she was Head of Design Data & Operations for all of Capital One's design organisation.
She has pioneered data strategy for design within Capital One, creating scalable systems of automation for design metrics across products. Her team drove end to end experiences for designers, product and developers, focusing on intentional research, quantitative metrics, a strong design system and visionary design strategy.
Jessa is a 2-time keynote speaker at PUSH UX conference, and has already taught this workshop in Munich in 2025.
