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Aug 2025
59m 33s

Dan Winer - How to become more strategic...

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About this episode

What does it look like to advance your career in the age of AI?

That’s what this week’s episode with Dan Winer (Director of Product Design at Kit) is all about.

He shares insights from his top-rated Maven course "Strategy and Influence for Product Designers" (https://join.dive.club/dan-winer-course)

So if you want to learn how to go from pixel pusher to strategic partner then this is the episode for you 💪

Some highlights:

- Dan’s strategies for effective storytelling

- How to shine a light on the value of your work

- Tactics for building alignment across key stakeholders

- The 8 skills that Dan is evaluating in the hiring process

- Why design systems are becoming more important than ever

- Harsh truths designers don’t want to hear about their portfolio

- What to do if you don’t have data to prove the impact of your work

- + a lot more

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