Lessonly

• Product & Engineering

   Assignments:

  Onboarding buddy

  We provide context through communication boosting productivity leading to new llama satisfaction.

  Full Description

  • We provide context through open communication to provide relevant information to the new llama and encourage a process of continued, self-directed learning.
  • We boost productivity by helping the new llama in many situations based on his/her experience and knowledge to become productive in their role quickly and to help build self-confidence allowing him/her to focus on adding value to Lessonly.
  • We help improve new llama satisfaction by reducing the initial confusion and uncertainty faced by all new llamas.

  Requirements

  • Must have a position with the reach of 2.1 or higher
  • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inCommunication
  • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inProduct Knowledge
  • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inInitiative
  • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inCollaboration

  Examples

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  Interviewer

  Growing the team is one of the most important things we do... and we interviewers are responsible for helping to decide on our future teammates.

  Full Description

  Success:

  • You are counted on for two things as it pertains to new llamas joining the pack:
    • Help the candidates get a clear idea of the Lessonly culture as well as the different aspect of the job they are applying for.
    • You'll also be vital in helping the hiring manager assess the candidate across a plethora of criteria

  Details:

  • Attend all on-site interviews for a single position
  • Actively work to give the candidate clarity about who we are
  • Actively work to give clarity to the hirer about your perception of the candidate
  • Understanding of the role the interviewee is interviewing for and the why behind the role
  • Prepared on the general background of the candidate
  • Prepared 2-4 questions based on the role and the candidate
  • Be an active listener. Make sure you are present to the interviewee and not thinking about your life while he or she is talking Here are a couple of thing that I try to do before and during an interview.
  • You listen to answers to see if they follow the values of Lessonly. Ask clarifying questions.
  • When preparing questions, you keep in mind the Lessonly values

  Requirements

  • Must have a position with the reach of 1.1 or higher
  • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inCommunication

  Examples

    Observation created over 5 years ago

  Featuring:Ashley S.Interviewer

  I've been with Ashley as she's been on an interview panel for the first time this week. The cool thing is, you'd never know it was her first time!

  Ashley has been asking really thoughtful questions during the interviews that have helped unearth some great details about the candidates we've been chatting with. Not only that, but I feel like she's communicated with our candidates in a way that is super respectful, down-to-earth, and would make me feel a little more relaxed if I'd been interviewed by her.

  I also appreciate in our debriefs how thoroughly she's thought through the interviews to make sure that we hire candidates that are great culture fits.

  Thanks for being an awesome interviewer, Ashley!

  P&E DBW group member

  We engage in meaningful conversations on ways to help the Product and Engineering team do better work

  Full Description

  Success

  • Do Better Work Groups are a way for anyone on the product team to see something they want to see improved, propose a quest to identify the best solution, and once prioritized make that change happen.
  • You, as a member of a DBW group will be successful if you are a part of inspiring and enabling us to do better work!

  Requirements

  • Must have a position with the reach of 1.1 or higher
  • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inInitiative
  • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inCommunication

  Examples

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  • Product

     Assignments:

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    • Product Design

       Assignments:

      UI Designer

      We are relied upon by our squadmates for our strong design opinion (simple, elegant, brand-aware, desirable, viable, feasible, and usable) while being flexible and open to ideas during the collaborative convergence

      Full Description

      Success:

      • Your squadmates relying on you for your strong design opinion while being flexible and open to ideas during the collaborative convergence
      • Simple, elegant, brand-aware, desirable, viable, feasible, and usable solution and the necessary UX/UI.
      • Designing for MVP + additional releases

      Feedback loop/deliverables:

      • The feedback loop for this role is qualitative... how complete are the designs as measured by your squadmates.

      Details:

      • We move fast. We move together. Dual-track agile best describes our product delivery model. Meaning, at all times a squad is active in both discovery and delivery. This is admittedly very difficult to manage, but the payoff is worth the cost. Iterate, iterate, iterate.

      Requirements

      • Must have a position with the reach of 1.1 or higher
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inInteraction Design
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inVisual Design
      • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inProduct Discovery
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inDesign Collaboration
      • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inStakeholder / Feedback Management
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inInformation Architecture
      • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inProduct Knowledge
      • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inDesign Project Management
      • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inDecomposition & Sequencing

      Examples

      An observation relating to  UI Designer  has not been publicly recognized yet.

      Design System Contributor

      We create reusable patterns to add to a growing library so that we can continuously improve our shared language, and this language allows the team to collaborate more effectively

      Full Description

      Success

      • Reusable patterns are identified and added to the growing design system library to be implemented by engineers
      • Designs are representative of and add to our understanding of how the system functions as a whole

      Feedback loop/deliverables:

      • Documented elements that have been reviewed and approved by the principal product designer, and Design System senior UI engineer
      • Element specs include visual design, interaction design, rules, and edge cases

      Details

      As we begin to create a full system with our app, it's critical that pieces created are of very high quality. This role has a higher milestone requirement to reflect the need for thoughtful, consistent design.

      Requirements

      • Must have a position with the reach of 2.1 or higher
      • For this role, you must be milestone 3 or greater inVisual Design
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inInteraction Design
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inDesign Collaboration
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inInitiative
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inDesign Operations
      • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inDesign Project Management

      Examples

      An observation relating to  Design System Contributor  has not been publicly recognized yet.

      Design Facilitator

      We facilitate design activities aimed at collaboration, clarity, and alignment

      Full Description

      Success

      • Business / workshop goals achieved in time allotted (ex: Decisions made, solutions identified and spec'd, etc)
      • Confidence in presentation and activity management
      • Keeps all participants engaged. (ex: everyone participates equally)
      • Selecting the best activities for the type of outcome desired + group dynamics
      • Knows when to pause on the agenda to dig into a conversation vs. save until after the session.

      Feedback Loop/Deliverables

      • Workshop agendas and activities
      • Next steps after workshops
      • Post-workshop survey (for large, special facilitation)

      Details

      • This is a critical role in product discovery, as collaborating with 3+ people is challenging in and of itself. A facilitator alleviates the load of a discovery team bearing the weight by themselves
      • Sometimes, tricky product and/or collaboration problems call for a leader to facilitate that collaboration. This role delivers on that collaboration with confident, thoughtful leadership in the room, and creates an enjoyable experience that arrives at needed goals.

      Requirements

      • Must have a position with the reach of 2.1 or higher
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inDesign Facilitation
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inStakeholder / Feedback Management
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inProduct Discovery
      • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inDesign Collaboration
      • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inDesign Operations

      Examples

      An observation relating to  Design Facilitator  has not been publicly recognized yet.

      Design Reviewer

      As design reviewers, our goal is to make our application (and ourselves) more awesome!

      Full Description

      Success

      • Giving thorough, thoughtful design critique while upholding our company core values.
      • In early reviews, asking the right questions to evaluate if our users will understand, enjoy, and benefit from the designs
      • In late reviews, ensuring designs meet standards and cover all aspects of the checklist (accessibility, mobile, error states, unhappy paths, design system adherence, tone)

      Feedback loop/deliverables

      • Attendance at design critique sessions
      • When necessary, whiteboarding or real-world examples sent to the designer

      Details

      • This role should be played by many on the design team, as we create a supportive and collaborative atmosphere.
        
      • It's important that even non-milestone 2 designers participate, but they should not be the only participants in a design critique.

      Requirements

      • Must have a position with the reach of 2.2 or higher
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inInformation Architecture
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inDesign Collaboration
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inVisual Design
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inInteraction Design
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inStakeholder / Feedback Management

      Examples

      An observation relating to  Design Reviewer  has not been publicly recognized yet.

      Product Design Enablement Lead

      We serve the function of Product Design, and those executing against its roles. Our goal is continuous improvement of the tools and processes (balancing autonomy and focusing on feedback loops).

      Full Description

      Success:

      • Those executing against the following roles have a continuously improving set of tools and processes (balancing autonomy and focusing on feedback loops).
        • Evaluative researcher
        • Solutions designer
        • Visual designer

      Details:

      • Designers across product teams are communicating, collaborating, and using consistent methods for defining problems and arriving at solutions. Designers are able to assess the processes they use in everyday product design work and know when to iterate on the methods and tools that they currently employ
      • The feedback loop is qualitative. Do the designers have what they need to succeed as it pertains to guidance on the process and proper tooling.
      • Maintenance of a design system
      • Ensuring the product team’s design practice is comprehensive, collaborative, and inclusive

      Requirements

      • Must have a position with the reach of 3.1 or higher

      Examples

      An observation relating to  Product Design Enablement Lead  has not been publicly recognized yet.

      Solution Designer (UX design)

      We create, prototype, test, and iterate concepts in collaboration with the entire squad in pursuit of desirable, viable, feasible, and usable solutions

      Full Description

      Success:

      • Validating and learning as quickly as possible with collaboration being a major key. Our value of sharing before ready is most applicable to this role.

      Things you'll do

      • Utilize Lean UX methods used to create successful team collaboration to create desirable, viable, feasible, and usable solutions to big problems.
      • Create, prototype, test, and iterate concepts
      • Use the full library of techniques such as lo-fi, wireframing, hi-fi live-data prototypes and any of the other techniques in between.

      Feedback loop/deliverables:

      • Designs that enable clarity of how a problem will be solved.
      • Validated solutions to the problems/unmet needs proposed
      • When necessary, you'll work with the Opportunity shaper and Discovery engineer to flesh out the execution section of investment canvases

      Details:

      • Solution definition is the most visible aspect of the designer position: creating, prototyping, testing, and iterating upon solutions and concepts.
      • We will lean on you to influence best design practices when it comes to choosing prototype fidelity, finding ways to learn and validate, collaborating within and between product teams, and encouraging the sharing of ideas and concepts early on.
      • Iteration and Sharing Before Ready are two concepts at the center of what it takes to be successful in this role. Trying to go it alone will ultimately lead to failure. You should think of yourself as a shepherd of the solution, not as someone who owns it in isolation.

      Requirements

      • Must have a position with the reach of 2.1 or higher
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inProduct Discovery
      • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inInteraction Design
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inDesign Collaboration
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inStakeholder / Feedback Management
      • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inInitiative
      • For this role, you must be milestone 2 or greater inDesign Facilitation
      • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inDesign Project Management
      • For this role, you must be milestone 1 or greater inDesign Operations

      Examples

        Observation created over 5 years ago

      Featuring:Ashley S.Design CollaborationSolution Designer (UX design)

      https://lessonly.slack.com/archives/C8H3ENQ2J/p1582565374007400

      Just wanted to give a quick shout out to Ashley on something small, but amazing.

      I'd love for us to do more of this style of collaboration. Small bits along the way. Sharing early and bringing in feasibility and viability as you go. I believe this is vital to the continuous discovery/design/delivery methodology we are striving for.

      I absolutely love this!

      Keep it up!!