A discipline entered almost entirely sideways.
Almost nobody starts in product or design deliberately. Your product managers and designers can explain the sideways routes to people who cannot see them, and get sharper at articulating decisions in the process.
- Session length
- 30 minutes
- Cost to the mentee
- Free
- Reporting
- Live
What product and design gets out of it.
Practice defending decisions
Explaining a trade-off to a stranger is the core product skill.
A wider talent pool
People who understand the route apply, including ones you would never otherwise reach.
Portfolio and craft feedback given fast
30 minutes of honest review changes what somebody builds next.
Recorded hours for progression
Impact outside the team, evidenced.
The questions that come up.
Moving into product from engineering, support or marketing
Building a portfolio without client work
Getting past the first design screening
Working with engineers well
Choosing between IC and management
Subjects only product and design can cover.
How a product decision is made
Take a mentee through a real trade-off between users, time and cost.
How AI is used in your design and research
Prototyping, research synthesis, copy: what it speeds up and what it ruins.
Critiquing a portfolio honestly
Thirty minutes on their case studies, from a person who hires.
Getting into product or design
Associate roles, internal moves and the work that gets noticed.
Four steps, no programme to build.
- 01
Pick the programme
Give across product and design.
- 02
Invite the team
One message, no new tooling.
- 03
Sessions are booked
30 minutes, chosen by the mentor.
- 04
Report it
Sessions, hours and topics.
Three ways to fund it.
Give
Open mentoring across your workforce, funded as an ongoing commitment.
Grow
One cause, one target, one deadline, for a focused internal push.
Redirect
Offer a session to candidates you turn down, so a rejection still helps.
The things people ask first.
Can designers review portfolios in a session?
Yes, that is one of the most common requests.
Is 30 minutes enough?
With one clear question set in advance, yes.
Do we need to run a programme internally too?
No, this stands on its own.
Ready to put this in front of your product and design team?
Tell us the size of the team and what you want out of it, and we will come back with a price and a launch date.