Hiring & Developing Early Career Designers with Sam Daugherty

Formerly a teacher, Sam Daugherty fell into the design world by accident and is now a Senior Designer at a FinTech company. In this episode, you’ll hear about his career journey, how he thinks about hiring and developing early career designers, balancing work and personal life, and much more.

Here’s a look at our discussion:

• 0:00 : Letting your personality shine through

• 5:00 : What Sam’s been up to recently & how he got into design

• 12:00 : Teaching early career designers to communicate with engineers & stakeholders

• 25:30 : Hiring for team and personality fit vs. hard skills

• 28:00 : Hiring for cultural diversity and neurodiversity

• 40:00 : What qualities Sam & Nadia look for when hiring early designers

• 51:00 : Convincing hiring managers that you don’t need to hire senior designers for every role

• 58:00 : Acknowledging that design is hard work, but there are some pretty great benefits to the flexibility you have in many design roles

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Sam’s LinkedIn Profile

• Sam's Portfolio Site

• Behind the Bastards Podcast

• A Bit of Optimism Podcast