# How our design team level set on career leveling

DevFeed: [How our design team level set on career leveling](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-our-design-team-level-set-on-career-leveling-9674.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-design-team-career-levels/>)

Author: Sara Culver

Published: 2023-03-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Figma Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/figma-blog.md>)

Topics: [Figma](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/figma.md>), [Notion](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/notion.md>)

Tags: [career](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/career.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [figma](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/figma.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [motion-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/motion-design.md>), [product-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-design.md>), [product-strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-strategy.md>), [prototyping](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prototyping.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [skills](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/skills.md>), [writing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/writing.md>)

## AI overview

Figma's design organization revamped its product design and writing career levels to clarify expectations, evaluate craft, support hiring and performance management, and help designers identify skill-development priorities. The framework includes a FigJam, a skills chart, core competency descriptions, and a Skills Widget.

## Source excerpt

Design Manager Sara Culver takes us through evolving Figma's product design and writing career levels.