This page contains the different roles within the Motion Design path. Choose the relevant role you want to learn about. You can also enter the “Professional Path” to access the relevant skills and resources (coming soon!). đ
Entry level, up to one year. Understand design and motion basics and execution. Can take well defined projects and execute them within the monday values, look and feel.
Executes well defined tasks fast and with minimum iterations. Understand the whole funnel, know the KPI’s and performance of every project.
Fast execution that meets deadlines. Follows the brand and style guide while creating designs and animations within industry standards.
Strives to make a positive impact and excels in the deliverables.
Can get feedback and iterate according to it to create a winning project
Able to create consistent impact
Positive promoter with a can-do approach
Winning and making an impact.
Takes full responsibility of their part in the projects A-Z, including QAing their projects.
Can take projects from A-Z while knowing when and how to raise flags. Leads medium-sized projects and takes part in complex core projects.Â
Experience required in this role before getting promoted to the next level: Working in different set of dynamics, gaining experience on any type of team – while continue to bring excellent execution. Leading cross-design initiative.
Extra duties: Buddy, cross design initiatives, portfolio overviews
Understands and takes part in all parts of the process – from concept and script to implementation and performance. Has full understanding of the channel KPI’s and metrics.
Takes full ownership on craftsmanship and execution. Masters the monday craftsmanship values and thinking framework.
Makes data-driven decisions. Constantly measures their tasks impact, checks the data and makes changes to their actions accordingly.
Is a problem solver, supports others, promotes mutual help. Engages communication with all stakeholders, can collaborate with everyone.
Positive promoter â helps the team succeed as a team. Can get people to join and help with their projects.
Leader and influencer in the design team and the entire company. Can take many missions upon themself. Knows and dictates the monday design language and values. Leads core projects and takes part in company-wide goals. This is a core role with a wide range of growth within itself.
Experience required in this role before getting promoted to the next level: Gains a strategic overview of different angels of monday, leads in different dynamics and challenges. Leads projects beyond the “design” angel, from a business owner eyes.
Extra duties: Trainer, lead cross-design projects, perform design review, interviews.
Plays a significant part on the team core projects. Has deep understanding of the business goals and company efforts, also of all the metrics and KPI’s and knows how to implement it to their work.
Responsible and accountable to the craftsmanship and execution in their domain.
Focuses the team on easy, fast, and effective solutions while maintaining an high standard product and looking at the long-term goals and progress.
Manifesting the company values, affecting personal and others in an efficient manner . The ability to communicate and collaborate with diverse peers, management, and stakeholders.
Their behavior and actions turn them into the professional go-to . Taking part and positively affecting the decision-making in their team.
This role is not mandatory. It’s a short and experimental role in which the designer can explore managerial ownership and IC projects. This role will determine (both by the Designer and the Company) the following career path: Managerial or IC. This role has quick feedback loops between the manager and the designer in order to experience and gain trust with the next role.
Extra duties:Â Cross-group review, mentoring, taking group execution ownership, cross-domain project leadership, Lectures and retro review.
Experience required in this role before getting promoted to the next level:
Holds the complexity of either multiple domains with a common area or a domain with deep complexity. Enabler of critical projects, champion of the design excellence and the design depth of their domain.
Extra duties:Â Part of the design extended leadership forums, leads cross-design projects, mentors designers
Experience required in this role before getting promoted to the next level:
Leads design execution of large and complex efforts. Breaks down into concerns and areas of volatility, provides high-level solutions, and hands it off to the team.
Can manage any type of project and bring it to production. Able to independently perform deep massive changes with speed while maintaining high quality.
Manages to inspire their team through planning, context building and setting aspirational goals, creates a setup for people to excel. Has a great halo effect that translates to people growth, drives deep design understanding, standards improvements and better focus on the most impactful points in every team/project they’re part of
Team communication engine. Promotes mondayâs culture in their day to day actions and decisions, sets an example in their actions that promotes our core values and principles.Â
Stakeholders management â can effectively communicate and set expectations with multiple stakeholders across the organization over a predefined goal׼
Professional anchor of a cross-domain area, has a significant influence on practices, go-to for multiple teams across the design, leading various projects simultaneously.
Extra duties:Â Part of the design extended leadership forums, leads cross-design projects, mentor designers, initiate new projects / domains, can lead non-designers within projects
Experience required in this role before getting promoted to the next level:
Breaks down into concerns and areas of volatility, provides high-level solutions, and hands it off to the team. Can perform complex long term planning.
Holds design expertise that impacts multiple groups. Brings deep knowledge from other disciplines (product/businessâŚ) into their group.
Shapes our design culture and defines new principles and methods that are adopted to the day to day in the design.
Evaluates own performance and takes responsibility for the outcomes of decisions made in their domain. Recognizes points that requires interference and manages to get to the root cause and drive a resolution in the design.
Can independently communicate with different stakeholders in the organization and create alignment around the decisions and course of actions in their project.
Makes a consistent unique impact through engineering. Brings the whole engineering of the company to a new level. Growing the next generation of tech leads. In charge of the most complex and impactful parts of the system/projects/products.
Extra duties: Part of the design extended leadership forums, leads cross design projects, mentor designers, initiate new projects/ domains, can lead non designers within projects.
Independently scopes, designs, and delivers solutions for large, complex challenges that involve multiple groups or affects wide areas in the design. Deep understanding of design concepts and best practices, knows how design systems and complex systems work and manages to apply this knowledge in their day-to-day actions.
Builds and defines craftsmanship guidelines in the design level. Proactively introduces industry solutions and concepts to solve design challenges.
Brings direct exceptional impact to the business by themselves, by leading significant projects & efforts. Leads the major parts of the systemâs layout and hierarchy.
Creates a unique organizational culture. Drives actions that create a clear mission statement and manage to translate it to KPIs and goals in an engaging way.
Initiate and define cross-design ongoing collaboration efforts.
Leads a team of motion designers with Joint KPIs. They are responsible for developing the people on their teamâin particular, mid-level and beginners. Responsible for quality, creativity and delivery of projects they are overseeing, along with revenue user satisfaction as well as for the team satisfaction and well being.
Extra duties: A member of the extended design leadership team, a member of the team leadership forums, and a member of cross-design projects.
Experience required in this role before getting promoted to the next level:
Understands all domain aspects, and sets standards in every area – tech, business, marketing, product, craftsmanship.
Provides the right level of guidance and technical mentorship for people that maximize personal growth and productivity.
Manages to inspire their team through planning, context building and setting aspirational goals, creates a setup for people to excel
Team communication engine. Creates a safe place to talk. Keeps all team members aligned with others work by creating a sharing environment.
*** Managerial roles have the ‘Leadership & Ownership’ vector in any aspect of their work, therefore they will not be written as a separate vector here.
Leads multiple efforts/owner of an extremely complex world in a group or directly in the design guild. Typically leads up to 12 designers, and can also lead (formal/informal) non-design functions. Responsible for the delivery and impact of the designers within different teams and KPIs. In collaboration with colleagues from other professions, leads the strategy and execution of their domain, ensuring the design outcome aligns with the design ecosystem.
Extra duties:Â A member of the extended design leadership team, a member of the team leadership forums, and a member of cross-design projects.
Experience required in this role before getting promoted to the next level:
Can independently communicate with different stakeholders in the organization and create alignment around decisions and actions. Manages to rise above their domains land. Has a wide context about other domains and cross design challenges.
Leads cross design initiatives while keeping all members involved and in sync towards common goal.
Accountable for maximizing impact in their teams, find the right places to intervene on the day-to-day. Making sure the team meets all its key goals, consistently, regardless of the circumstances. Creating a major and noticeable impact every Q.
Evaluates own performance and takes responsibility for the outcomes of decisions made in their domain. Creates and engage with a clear mission statement
*** Managerial roles have the ‘Leadership & Ownership’ vector in any aspect of their work, therefore they will not be written as a separate vector here.
A manager of managers/leads multiple teams with extremely complex world and accountability. Fully accountable for the entire group activities. Leading the group focus, execution speed , execution quality and cultural ‘can do’ approach. Addressing progress from all aspects Product, Culture, HR , technical. etc.
Extra duties: member of the design leadership team and the builders/ marketing/ops group leadership forum.
Transforming company vision into group-level Q goals, and working with group leadership to transform those into a coherent inspiring plan. An ambassador of the design leadership, can represent the department perspective, culture, and core values.
Accountable for the groupâs design direction, executions, ecosystem consistency ,etc. Oversees and mentors the team and design leaders on the professional development plans they build for the team.
Identifies cross company opportunities and ensures alignment towards the optimal goal, drives company/product wide initiatives. Drives impact through team building (planning, setting goals, setting vibe/atmosphere, creating culture etc.).
Drives to a design excellence atmosphere. Creates a culture of constant learning in a structured and consistent manner. Brings a contagious âcan-doâ approach to the day-to –day and drives a winner state of mind.
*** Managerial roles have the ‘Leadership & Ownership’ vector in any aspect of their work, therefore they will not be written as a separate vector here.
Full accountability on a wide strategic pillar that contains multiple groups with variety of KPIs. Leads the group strategy and business KPI’s using design as its tool. Guides and mentors the groups leadership teams ( Product, Dev, Design) to success.
Extra duties:Â Mentor group leaders from different areas, lead and generate changes within the design guild take part in the builders/ marketing leadership forums and programs
Transforming company business KPI’S into new solutions and vision. Deep understanding of the market, the product and able to bring new opportunities to the table.Â
Creating design ecosystem that will help promote the design execution. Connects all groups into one holistic design.
Enables stable work environment within the groups, builds and plans for future growth and reaching bussiness goals. Helps the groups leadership to translate the company business goals into product vision and solid roadmap.
Promotes a culture in which all everyone have the passion to create a product that people love to use. Sets a culture of excellence in which the designers are full partners to their colleagues, in business, execution and creating a winning vibe.
*** Managerial roles have the ‘Leadership & Ownership’ vector in any aspect of their work, therefore they will not be written as a separate vector here.
Managing an entire design organization end to end . Full ownership on goals, structure, HR , learning and development.
Extra duties: Part of the company VP leadership forum, connecting and initiate cross department projects and progress.
Uses the design profession as a tool to push the company product and bussiness KPI’S forward. Can deliver and communicate in a way that inspire everyone around them.
Bringing the team to fully understand and want to push the execution to be better independently. Can create a clear and inspiring high level vision and standard that can guide everyone around them.
Delegating and empowering while still be able to lead situation to the right outcome. Sets and challenge the design progress, always push it to the next level.
Create a culture of lean yet powerful approach where every employee has a huge impact on the outcome and where we are going. Creating a company that appreciate and understand the power of design, and demands from the designer to always push forwards.
*** Managerial roles have the ‘Leadership & Ownership’ vector in any aspect of their work, therefore they will not be written as a separate vector here.