Join RETHINK and our special guest Jian Wei - Design Manager at Zendesk while we discuss the challenges of transitioning from IC to design management.

What we'll cover

• How to decide if the management path is what you want to do? How do you know you're ready?
• How do you bring up this type of conversation with your manager
• How to make the transition from being an IC designer to a manager?
• How to know you'll be good at it?
• Now that you are a manager how do you measure your impact? Should you still be designing too?
• What skills should you be focusing on developing as a new manager?

Making the move from IC to Design Manager is not an easy decision and it's important to have clarity on the right questions to ask. In this talk, Jian Wei will be sharing his own journey from IC to the management path, the challenges he has encountered, and he'll have a conversation with you about your challenges.

RETHINK Leadership Circle Members

If you're an annual member of the RETHINK Leadership Circle this event is free for you. Please contact us at hello (at) rethinkhq (dot) com to reserve your spot.

Agenda:

• 1:00pm PDT Welcome
• 1:05pm PDT Jian Wei's Talk
• 1:40pm PDT Q&A
• 2:15pm PDT Event ends

About the speaker

Jian Wei is a Design Manager with more than 7 years of design experience at Zendesk. As an individual contributor, he has designed and improved core product parts in the Zendesk product suite, notably the chat widget experience, agent experience, and most recently the Zendesk Sunshine CRM platform. Last year he was given the opportunity to step up into management.

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