Exploring Staff Designer Archetypes and Their Impact

This week's episode is with Anthony Menecola who is a longtime staff product designer at Shopify so we’re going to do a deep dive into ways you can make a bigger impact at your company as an IC.

One of the big themes of this episode is Anthony’s journey becoming more technical and contributing to the Shopify code base so if you’re interested in building your ideas I think you’ll get a lot out of this one.

We also talk about:

• The archetypes of staff designers at Shopify
• What it takes to create an impactful proposal
• Ways to build strategic relationships at Shopify
• How to strategically circulate your design ideas
• The art of sharing effective async video updates
• How Anthony identifies future-facing ideas to explore
• a lot more

• Anthony’s website and Twitter
• The Shop app