Hello! I'm currently a product designer at a startup and we're currently hiring for a Lead Product Designer. I've been helping my director write up an interview format and was wondering if there was anything different about lead designer interviews? When I was going through the interview process at my company I had the following steps: phone screen, hiring manager screen, onsite (portfolio review, design collab, stakeholder collab, eng collab). Any additional info will be much appreciated!

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If they have direct reports, I think having them meet the team and let the team share thoughts and ask questions.

Also, ask them specifically about what it means to lead to them. How will they lead? (Ex: will they focus on bringing in new processes, evangelize UX, help build a design system) think about which you need from your lead and ask questions to gauge if the candidate is a fit for it.

If this is not strictly an IC role then you need to ask different questions you understand more soft skills.

I always run this process and never fails.

3 stage interview process
Stage 1 - Screener and portfolio review (remote)
- If human, set a task to do a one-page heuristic analysis of the current problem, just writing/opinions but will need to be expressed at hiring manager interview.
Stage 2 - Hiring manager interview (remote)
Stage 3 - Team Chemistry meeting (hybrid)

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