Building Jam | Growing the Design Team
Building Jam: Growing Design (Ep. 5) - YouTube
Building Jam: Growing Design (Ep. 5)
We’re trying something new: hitting record on an unfiltered conversation about building our startup each week. No fluff, just real decisions, moments and challenges.
What’s it like building Jam this week? We’re hiring a second designer and realizing it’s one of the hardest positions to fill.
This week we discuss:
- 0:15 Why hiring a designer is harder than an engineer
- 6:57 How we look for designers at Jam
- 9:15 How our designers’ personalities have shaped the product
- 16:15 Working with sr. designers (tip: they don’t need your Canva file)
- 21:41 Talking to new audiences about your product
- 28:44 Google docs is Totino’s Pizza rolls & Notion is a calzone
- 30:30 Answering “What’s your favorite product?” in a PM interview
- 33:30 Reacting to a mind-blowing website (Amie!)
- 34:48 What bell-bottom jeans say about your startup
Want to hear more about Jam design? Check out this episode:
Discussing In-Progress Designs with Jam's lead designer, Chris Rodemeyer.
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P.S. Here's the blog we talked about in the episode: the pizza-lover's guide to knowledge management tools.