India

Menaka Chandrasekhar

Product design lead

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Menaka Chandrasekhar🇮🇳