About Beamery:
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B2B enterprise scale-up in HR tech, 300+ employees
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We enable executives, talent acquisition managers and recruiters of Fortune 500 companies to manage their end-to-end talent lifecycle with our AI-assisted tooling.
Design Ops at Beamery:
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Design Ops operate in close partnership with Product Ops & Sales Ops, making sure we align our activities on the same goals.
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We support the entire designer's lifecycle at the company: from the onboarding and progression through all the rituals and tools involved.
The context:
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We’ve launched cohesive product development process for Engineering, Product & Design, aligning everyone on the same taxonomy and approach.
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I worked in parallel with Product Ops on engraining the new process across Product & Design functions.
The team and people involved:
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I initiated and drove the solution discovery.
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Throughout the process, I actively collaborated with the Product Design team as both co-creators and users.
The problems:
- The absence of a systematic product development process across the org led to massive inconsistencies in design process and chaos in design files.
The goals:
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We needed to enable the Design Team to follow the new process and ensure it's engrained in their day-to-day work.
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To achieve that, we decided to focus on rationalising the structure of designer's files and developing a common template.
The approach:
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We followed the standard rationalisation process my team uses for every design systems & design ops project: inventory > industry analysis > ideation
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Given the scale of the org and direct access to consumers (i.e. designers), we prefer bias towards action. This means minimising the time to market and iterating based on real data and feedback from users.
The solution:
- Every design team has a pinned template document in their working folder.
- The template starts with a configurable thumbnail, ensuring consistency in document covers.
- The template has comprehensive guidelines to simplify the onboarding and enable self-serving the document.
- The document’s structure incentivises designers to follow the sequential steps of the product development process. Title pages provide additional guidance and help aligning on expectations at each step.
- Starting pages of each stage contain useful widgets to make design files more informative.
- Built-in templates for recurring company rituals help designers get started quickly.
- All widgets that power the template are hosted in a centralised toolkit library to simplify the content management and maintenance across the variety of documents.