S6E7 An interview with Alicia Warren, Product Design Director for IT Products at Rippling

Alicia is a Product Design Director for IT Products at Rippling - the platform that frees smart people to work on hard problems! She has been a designer across industries, including higher education, academia, insurance, pharmacy, e-commerce, and technology, and is an Adjunct Instructor at Columbia College, where she focuses on how to prepare for moving from college to what your life as a designer will be like. She co-organizes the Ladies that UX Chicago meetup, where she brings conversations like accessibility, ethics in design, and emotional intelligence to the community.

In this episode, we talked about:

• How to get a job after being unemployed for a year
• How to see if a company is a good fit for you using organizational design
• Tips on career struggles
• UX driven transformation
• How did Alicia get into design
• Alicia’s role at Rippling
• What is Rippling and how does it serve people?

Links: 

Connect with Alicia

https://twitter.com/mika_jo

https://www.rippling.com/

https://adplist.org/mentors/alicia-joy-warren 

Hiring:

Product Designer: https://www.rippling.com/careers/5035370003?gh_jid=5035370003

Lead Product Designer: https://www.rippling.com/careers/5201191003?gh_jid=5201191003

UX Researcher: https://www.rippling.com/careers/5035351003?gh_jid=5035351003