Embark on a 12-week virtual learning course for DesignOps practitioners to level-up skills with peers and experts.
A virtual 12 week program led by Learning Lab Professors who are at the top of the field and come ready to teach, share, and help careers move forward.
Each cohort will be a curated group of 10-11 individuals who are either exploring DesignOps as a profession or are already established within DesignOps.
There are three levels of Learning Lab, so attendees can focus on a specific area within DesignOps vs. a broad syllabus.
Head of Experience DesignOps
TrueLayer
Europe based courses
Design Planning & Development Lead
Instacart
US based courses
Design Program Manager
Dropbox
US based courses
Head of DesignOps
Gojek
APAC based courses
Design Operations
Google
US based courses
Sr. Manager, DesignOps
Coforma
US based courses
Head of Design Operations
ANZ Bank
APAC based courses
Head of Design Ops
Atlassian
US based courses
Head of Design Advocacy
zeroheight
Europe based courses
There are four levels of Learning Labs, so attendees can each focus on a specific area within DesignOps.
Cohorts are application-based, carefully curated, and a gateway to raising the collective DesignOps IQ!
Feb 2nd - Feb 15th
Submit a quick questionnaire to help us place you in the optimal cohort. You’ll need to provide:
• Your contact information
• Your career experience around DesignOps
• Topics you are interested in chatting about
Feb 15th - Feb 23rd
DesignOps Assembly and its Learning Lab Professors will review application responses, including experience, interest, and time zone of each applicant.
Accepted applicants will then be placed in a Learning Lab with folks with similar experience and levels.
Feb 24th
We’ll send out an email notifying each applicant if they have been accepted into the program. The notice will note when the classes will be held every other week. Please be flexible here. Just like college, this will be a set date & time every other week.
Please notify us immediately if you can no longer attend so we can allocate the space to someone from the waiting list.
Feb 24th - Mar 3rd
Payment
• Once you have been accepted into the program, we will send you a link for payment. This payment is due by Mar 3rd
• Once payment has been made we’ll add you to your Learning Lab Slack Channel
Scheduling
• You and your cohort members will be added to the slack channel and align on scheduling with your Professor
• Session #1 will be scheduled by your Learning Lab Professor
• DOA will ensure everyone from the group is added to their specific Learning Lab Slack Channel
Week of Mar 20th
Session #1: Planning
Build trust, select topics to discuss over for future sessions.
Session #2 - #5: Deep Dive
Dive deep into topics that the entire cohort agrees to, such as:“How do you measure the value of DesignOps within your company?“What are the frameworks you have used to build out L&D on the design team?“How do you build rapport with your cross functional teams?”“How do you manage up?”
Session #6: Wrap Up
Wrap up any open-ended conversations, reflect on the Learning Lab experience, and provide tangible examples of what you’ve learned and how you will use it moving forward.
Week of June 19th
Feedback Survey
At the end of the cohort, we’d love your answers on our end of course feedback survey in order to make improvements to our program.
Teaching
Interested in teaching a future cohort? We’d love alumni to become professors and are happy to chat with you further.
Overview
• This 12 week Spring Learning Lab will start the week of March 20th, 2023 and conclude in June 2023
• This is an application based program and you can fill out the application below
• There is a non-refundable $50 application fee
• The overall cost of the Learning Lab is $1500 USD
Engagement
• 3 month commitment (6 sessions total) is required
• Meetings will happen every other week for 90 minutes
• Attendance is required. You must attend 4/6 sessions to receive the certificate
• Engagement in both the Learning Lab sessions + Slack channel are required
• Homework will be decided upon by the Learning Lab Professor and is expected to be complete by the next session
• Time commitment will vary between 1-2hrs on session off weeks
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Cohorts are built to speed up your leveling-up as a DesignOps professional. The value of cohorts translate into a more confident and empowered you, and resources to help you increase your annual income.
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• Six 90 minute virtual sessions
• Access to industry resources
• Access to instructors via Slack
• Office hours throughout the course
Need financial assistance? We want to make sure finances don't get in the way of your success in DesignOps. If you are unemployed or a student, please let us know in your application and we’ll see how we can help.
“Learning Labs helped me organize my career into an Ops focus and helped me find the language to what I was doing. Also when I was interviewing – the jobs board was critical and I got a few interviews from there.”
Amanda Cofelt
Designer, Callrail
“DOA has helped me to shape my current role, providing me with great resources, knowledge and networking, as well as the feeling of belonging to a community.”
Amanda Cofelt
Designer, Callrail
“I was able to put the practice of design ops to the test and got a promotion and a new job. I met wonderful people when I attended my first learning lab.”
Amanda Cofelt
Designer, Callrail
