Hiring

The science of building a scalable sales team

Learn how Hubspot built out its sales team — from their first hire to a team of over 200 employees. Learn how to recruit the right salespeople, provide consistent training, ramp up lead generation, and continuously improve your sales team.

Design without a design team

In an ideal world, every company has a dedicated design team. There’s at least one expert in each of the many design disciplines that Braden previously outlined and the team works together to create a consistently excellent product.

Hiring a product designer: how to review portfolios

Hiring lessons from GV’s design event series

Designers and managers in our portfolio often ask us about building design teams: Who do I need? Where do I find designers? How do I compete with big company salaries? To help answer these questions, we hosted two private, off-the-record events — a…

How top startups pay designers

A few weeks ago I had coffee with an experienced product designer. Let’s call him Carl. He’d been working at a respected San Francisco startup for five years, but he was getting restless. Carl had excellent experience and skills. (Heck, the guy was even a decent coder.)

How to write a great job description for a designer

At Google Ventures, we help our portfolio companies hire top-notch design talent. We’ve helped our portfolio companies hire more than 30 full-time designers in the past two years, so we know a thing or two about how to attract talent…

How to evaluate a designer with a design exercise

Now that we’re past hunting for unicorns, and we know what design roles are needed at a startup, it’s time to get into the gritty details: the design interview.

Hiring a designer: hunting the unicorn

Finding the perfect designer to join your team is tough — there’s no way around it. I’ve struggled for months searching for the right designer. And if you’re an engineer or MBA without a background in design, hiring a designer can be daunting, frustrating, or…

How to choose the right design agency for your startup