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Our Team
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Our Team
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Our team
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Your Career Path
Your Career Path
Your Career Path
Our career framework helps our design team stay on track, seize opportunities, and grow with confidence.
Our career framework helps our design team stay on track, seize opportunities, and grow with confidence.
At Stepstone, clarity drives excellence. Our framework defines what great looks like and ensures promotions are fair and transparent.
At Stepstone, clarity drives excellence. Our framework defines what great looks like and ensures promotions are fair and transparent.
Growth stories from our team
Real stories. Real growth. See how our career framework has helped our team learn, progress, and succeed.
"Our career frameworks and emphasis on regular reviews help managers and ICs have honest, productive conversations about performance and growth throughout the year."
Matt / Senior Manager, Design Operations
"I appreciate how the framework gives clarity on expectations and has helped me plan my next steps with focus."
Ahmad / Senior Product Designer
"The new Career Framework has genuinely helped me. It gives me more clarity on where to focus my growth and encourages me to take the time to reflect on what I want to learn."
Sebastian / Senior Product Designer
“The framework clarifies what great research looks like at every level and provides a shared language. Its concrete signals make discussions clearer and more empowering, especially in peer support.”
Carina / Lead UX Researcher
Growth stories from our team
Real stories. Real growth. See how our career framework has helped our team learn, progress, and succeed.
"Our career frameworks and emphasis on regular reviews help managers and ICs have honest, productive conversations about performance and growth throughout the year."
Matt / Senior Manager, Design Operations
"I appreciate how the framework gives clarity on expectations and has helped me plan my next steps with focus."
Ahmad / Senior Product Designer
"The new Career Framework has genuinely helped me. It gives me more clarity on where to focus my growth and encourages me to take the time to reflect on what I want to learn."
Sebastian / Senior Product Designer
“The framework clarifies what great research looks like at every level and provides a shared language. Its concrete signals make discussions clearer and more empowering, especially in peer support.”
Carina / Lead UX Researcher
Growth stories from our team
Real stories. Real growth. See how our career framework has helped our team learn, progress, and succeed.
A shared standard for growth, craft, and impact
A shared standard for growth, craft, and impact
A shared standard for growth, craft, and impact
At Stepstone, progression is not vague, subjective, or left to chance.
Our career framework exists to set a clear, shared standard for what excellence looks like, and to support every product designer, user researcher, and design leader in growing toward it.
This framework is how we align ambition with expectation, and potential with opportunity.
At Stepstone, progression is not vague, subjective, or left to chance.
Our career framework exists to set a clear, shared standard for what excellence looks like, and to support every product designer, user researcher, and design leader in growing toward it.
This framework is how we align ambition with expectation, and potential with opportunity.
At Stepstone, progression is not vague, subjective, or left to chance.
Our career framework exists to set a clear, shared standard for what excellence looks like, and to support every product designer, user researcher, and design leader in growing toward it.
This framework is how we align ambition with expectation, and potential with opportunity.
One Framework. Shared Principles.
One Framework. Shared Principles.
One Framework. Shared Principles.
Across Product Design, User Research, Design Systems, Content Design, and Design Operations, we are united by three core pillars.
Across Product Design, User Research, Design Systems, Content Design, and Design Operations, we are united by three core pillars.
Craft
Craft
The first pillar and foundation of our framework
We believe quality isn’t optional and details matter
The first pillar and foundation of our framework
We believe quality isn’t optional and details matter
Craft turns ideas into trusted experiences that set Stepstone products apart.
Craft turns ideas into trusted experiences that set Stepstone products apart.
At Stepstone, growth means deepening mastery of craft, starting with strong fundamentals, and advancing to setting standards and raising the bar at senior and principal levels.
Great outcomes require great craft.
At Stepstone, growth means deepening mastery of craft, starting with strong fundamentals, and advancing to setting standards and raising the bar at senior and principal levels.
Great outcomes require great craft.
Product Thinking
Product Thinking
How you plan bets, prioritize work, and understand customers
How you plan bets, prioritize work, and understand customers
Impact
Impact
How we work with others to push boundaries and go further
How we work with others to push boundaries and go further
Turn Vision into Reality
Join us and make your work count. Innovate, grow, and leave your mark every day.
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Turn Vision into Reality
Join us and make your work count. Innovate, grow, and leave your mark every day.
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Turn Vision into Reality
Join us and make your work count. Innovate, grow, and leave your mark every day.
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