Persuading Stakeholders, Gaining Influence, and Levelling up Your Design Career, With Ryan Scott (ex Airbnb, Doordash, Salesforce)

Ryan is the founder of Accelerate Design Company. He's a Product and Design leader who brought food photography, live-order tracking, and remote driver training to DoorDash, launched step-function improvements to Airbnb’s checkout, messaging, search, and host calendar products, and launched products at TechCrunch Disrupt, Dreamforce, and WWDC. Ryan has led teams of all sizes, from two to 200, and is now advising companies on product management, design, and go-to-market strategy, as well as helping mid-career designers develop business skills to do more influential work and have more meaningful careers.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 – Intro
• 02:39 – Ryan's career and his thoughts on design education
• 08:03 – Describing the ROI of Design – his course for designers
• 14:57 – Gaining credibility by connecting design to business metrics
• 24:17 – Tailoring tactics for your specific environment
• 28:28 – Pursuing stakeholders through building good relationships with them
• 30:45 – How does Design work at the different companies he worked 
• 39:00 – The befits of scrapping incremental testing
• 43:34 – Assessing the quality of a team before joining
• 47:15 – On Accelerate Design company, his new business
• 53:06 – End of show questions.

Connect with Ryan
LinkedIn, Accelerate Design

Selected links from the episode
Describing the ROI of Design, Ryan's course