Cameron Gore

Jeff Hammoud, Rivian’s Chief Design Officer, took me inside their color and materials room—a space that encourages innovation and intricate design storytelling. I learned how Rivian’s design philosophy transforms everyday materials and objects into thoughtful features that enrich the experience of driving their EVs, and how one of their most iconic features was inspired by a humble piece of climbing gear. Follow along for more at https://lnkd.in/gZbXmpYk

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If you’re applying for a PM job in this day and age, the following are all anti signals: - Strategic product leader - “Innovation” expert - Cross functional gtm expert - Literally any mention of Agile Or Scrum Please just start with what you actually shipped and what the impact was.

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Hiring senior UX leaders at the enterprise level isn't about portfolios or pixels. It’s about influence. When I hire a Director or VP of Design, here’s what I look for: ✅ Can they translate design value in boardroom language? ✅ Do they build trust with product, engineering, and clinical partners? ✅ Have they scaled systems, not just teams? ✅ Can they shift the trajectory of a business line—not just ship features? The designers who get promoted aren't just good at design. They’re good at designing how decisions get made. If you’re preparing for your next step into executive design leadership, start by mapping your influence—not just your impact. #DesignLeadership #UXCareers #ExecutiveSearch #ProductDesign

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How confident are you in your roadmap this year? Are you playing it safe, or taking real swings at opportunities that could change your product’s trajectory? Today's insight on The PM Brief, featuring John Cutler, hits this tension perfectly. He reminds us that prioritization isn’t just about how confident we feel right now. It’s about how quickly we can learn, reduce risk, and collapse uncertainty early. This is just one of many strong insights in John’s article. All 10 prioritization traps are worth a read if you’re rethinking how you plan and prioritize heading into 2026. #ProductManagement #AI #Prioritization

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I was at Config San Francisco last week and got to witness firsthand how Figma and its passionate community have evolved. Check out this post on what I saw and what it signals—AI starting to find its place in real workflows, and designers increasingly playing a role as system architects while the gap between design and development continues to narrow.

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Product roles aren’t dead. They're more important than ever, especially as your company and product mature. The more product you build, the more complex the product work you have to do becomes. When you're first starting out, your product requirements can look something like "Build search," and frankly, any search is fine because any search is better than no search at all. As you build more and more product, you have to start thinking about: 1️⃣ All the existing workflows that any feature impacts and how the pieces fit together 2️⃣ Making sure that existing customers have a migration path when you make a change 3️⃣ How you're going to support the feature in the future (you probably ought to think about this the whole time, but when you’re starting out, it’s better just to move fast) Success of the work you do also looks really different. You have many fewer fully greenfield product opportunities. Instead, success often looks like moving the needle incrementally for both your existing customer base and growth areas for your business. How you think about product staffing needs to change at that point as well. I was the only product person at Starbridge for over a year, well past our first 200 customers. In December we had two amazing PMs join the team, Julia and Nicolas, which felt like it might be too much product staffing at the time. It has very quickly proven to still not be enough, given how much we have to do and how fast our engineering team ship. Even with that staffing, we were still running into bottlenecks in our ability to go deep on designing a beautiful and usable product. Last week, Eddie and Carpenco joined our design team to complement our incredible Head of Design, Serhii. Our entire product team is in New York this week, and in the last two days it feels like we've thought through product work that would have taken us a month before. It's trendy to say that product and even design roles are becoming less important in an AI-native world. I disagree: as it becomes easier to write code and, as a result, ship things, figuring out what to ship and how to build it in the right way is more important than ever.

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This Product School article does a great job of reframing OKRs for product teams by emphasizing outcomes over outputs. What I liked most is how it moves away from viewing OKRs as just tracking metrics and instead shows how they can help product teams stay aligned, focused, and centered on delivering real value. Thoughtful read for anyone in product or transformation roles thinking about prioritization, alignment, and outcome-driven delivery. https://lnkd.in/eMcTqKxb #ProductManagement #OKRs #ProductLeadership #StrategyExecution #OutcomeDriven #DigitalTransformation

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Lots of buzz lately about Super IC Product Design roles… If you're a Senior, Lead, Staff, or Principal Product Designer this is your moment. Teams are hiring for high-impact ICs who want to stay hands-on, lead big design challenges, and shape product strategy without going the manager route. Want to find these hidden roles? Here are some Boolean search tricks to help you: 1. Job Titles + Hiring Signals ("Senior Product Designer" OR "Staff Product Designer" OR "Principal Product Designer" OR "Lead Product Designer") ("we're hiring" OR "open role" OR "join our team") 2. Founders & Team Leads Posting Openings ("Senior Product Designer" OR "Lead Product Designer") ("looking for" OR "need a designer" OR "design partner needed") 3. X/Twitter-style Buzzwords ("Principal Product Designer") ("dream job" OR "next big thing" OR "zero to one") 4. Hidden Company Pages ("Product Designer") (site:angel.co OR site:wellfound.com OR site:notion.so) ("we’re hiring" OR "open roles") 5. Remote-friendly Roles ("Staff Product Designer") ("remote" OR "work from anywhere") ("hiring now") These searches work great on Google and LinkedIn. You'll dig up roles that never hit the big job boards. Time to go find the new job! #design #designer #superic #staffdesigner #principaldesigner #leaddesigner #seniordesigner #productdesigner #ux #ui #interactiondesigner #userexperience #supericdesinger #productdesign #designjobs

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