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**Design Operations Manager at Kin + Carta Create.**

**Responsibilities**

* Managing all aspects of design operations for the K+C Create Europe Design team

* Design Strategy and Mission

* Recruitment & Head count planning

* Project resourcing (including new projects, adding roles to existing projects and rotations)

* Managing Design Team Ceremonies + Cadence

* Contractor engagement and retention

* Organising offsite + design socials

* Creating internal processes and tooling with Notion

**Highlights**

* Built a scalable knowledge hub that is used across multiple teams

* Created a reusable onboarding checklist + template in Notion that is now being used for every new joiner in the business

Responsibilities & Highlights

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**Design Program Manager, Design Systems at Tesco.**

**Responsibilities**

* Helping Define how the Figma Libraries are structured + how we release our documentation.

* Defining our release cadence and process, introducing checklists to promote improved and timely releases to the wider design org.

* Establish team cadence to improve communication, collaboration and clarity of work in progress.

* maintain 'Design System' product roadmap, engaging with stakeholders across the business to make sure the team is focusing on the right features.

* Communicating + sharing what the team is working on at key meetings with senior management + the wider org.

**Highlights**

* Delivered a strategic plan to transition the Design Org from Sketch to Figma that included training, onboarding and a staggered roll out for all product teams. We originally estimated this would take 4months but **we successfully onboarded all teams within 3months.**

* Introduced planning and estimating of design tasks to enable team to deliver work at the right pace and reduce stress for the team.

* I built out an entire productivity system in Notion to help the team be better organised, plan work more easily and make our strategic goals be more visible.