About us
What is UX-Tree?
Valentina Antunovic, CEO and founder of UX-Tree, understood the challenge of finding a job without experience firsthand.
Recognizing an opportunity for improvement, Valentina developed a structured set of program design paths with clear goals and milestones, guided by industry mentors leading to the creation of UX-Tree. In these program paths, mentees are paired with experienced design mentors.
At the end of each path, mentees have gained substantial experience for their portfolios and received practical advice, making them job-ready and easing their onboarding process.
You are building expertise in core skills to deliver effectively and beginning to consider a specialization as you progress.
You have strong communication skills, able to summarize design issues and explain the role of design in your field. You understand time management, set work limits, and anticipate obstacles that may affect completion.
Your impact is expected at the product team level, applying your skills to deliver value and contribute to decisions, culture, and work quality across designers and cross-functional teams like Development, Product Management, Marketing, and Support.
EXPERTISE
In this role, you continuously learn your product area and its design and technical aspects, delivering with supervision.
MASTERING
You are working to deliver in core design areas, focusing on learning and building mastery across key skills.
Your impact is expected at the peer level, applying your skills to deliver value and positively influence decisions, culture, and work quality within your immediate team.
IMPACTING
You have refined communication skills, can easily summarize and present a design issue to colleagues, business partners, and managers.
At this level, focus on mastering core skills and advocating. You’ve delivered in core design areas and chosen a specialization to develop deeper expertise and contribute to the broader design team.
Your impact spans multiple teams at the product unit level, applying your skills to deliver value and contribute to decisions, culture, and work quality as a peer to functional leaders, while collaborating across departments.
You’re focused on guiding and evangelizing: delivering in core design areas, learning as much as possible, and building mastery across key skills to succeed.
Master the ability to guide efforts through coordination and collaboration, delivering excellence while managing limitations and resource demands.
This role combines individual contribution with subject matter expertise.
Your expected sphere of influence and impact is at the cross-vertical level. This means you are able to drive large, successful engagements that support the product family, drive revenue and create customer delight.
Amplifying: At this level, you should be looking to build your mastery level in all core skill areas to advocating.
This role serves a dual purpose, both as an individual contributor and a subject expert.
Your impact is at the company level, applying your skills to deliver value and positively influence decisions, culture, and work quality as a peer to other functional leaders.
Manager Path
Principal Path
Designer Path
Senior Path
Lead Path
Designer
Senior Designer
Lead Designer
Principal
Design Manager
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