30/60/90 Day Plan
It’s important for every new team member to develop a 30/60/90 day plan, which they share with cross-functional peers and their manager for review and feedback. Below is an example plan:
First 30 Days - Getting Context
- Complete onboarding
- Meet and build relationships with all cross-functional leaders in the company
- Schedule 1:1s with all product leaders
- Assess the current state of the design team from both people and product perspectives
- Review team roadmaps and ongoing projects
- Study past experiments and research
- Conduct at least 10 customer interviews
First 60 Days - Getting Involved
- Enhance team efficiency and speed
- Develop processes that enable better collaboration between design, product, and engineering teams
- Establish a clear team mission, vision, and OKRs for success
- Team Mission
- Collaborate with the team to brainstorm, prioritize, and plan key initiatives for the remainder of the half. This will help focus efforts and resource planning, although the list will evolve.
- Gain a deep understanding of user cohorts and segmentation
- Recruiting
- Partner with leadership to create a hiring plan for the team
- Define the scope for initial roles
- Build trust and respect within the team, reflected in positive feedback from peers across the company
- Cross-Functional:
- Meet all PMs and EMs on relevant adjacent teams
First 90 days - Hitting stride
- Assist teams in shaping their thinking and work as they develop roadmaps
- Foster continuous learning habits to meet customer needs with relevant products and features (leveraging data, research, and roadmaps)
- Delve into key metrics, understand the factors influencing them, and summarize findings
- Team Mission
- Help solidify the team mission and vision
- Guide teams in framing their thinking and work during roadmap development
- UX Team
- Continue meeting with the broader UX team (design, content, research)
- Establish relationships with UX Directors for future collaboration
- Recruiting
- Begin interviewing candidates
- Cross-Functional
- Meet all stakeholders (beyond PMs) on relevant adjacent teams
- Formulate a perspective on how other teams can better support the design team
- Leadership Team
- Achieve a high level of trust within the leadership team, aligning on strategy, objectives, and vision
- Assist founders in structuring, visualizing, and communicating the product plan
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