UX & Product Design
Deciding how a product should work for the people using it. The most portfolio-driven family here, and the most genuinely open to people without a degree.
Hiring is portfolio-first. What you have made matters more than what you have completed.
Roles, easiest entry first
Accessibility Specialist
You make sure the product works for people the team forgot to think about.
No degree needed
Developer Advocate
You help developers succeed with a product, and tell the company the truth about what is wrong with it.
No degree needed
Product Designer
You decide what gets built and how it should work, then draw it clearly enough to build.
No degree needed
Technical Product Manager
You decide what the team builds next, and you own the consequences of being wrong.
No degree needed
Technical Writer
You make complicated things understandable, in writing, for someone in a hurry.
No degree needed
UX Designer
You decide how a product should work for the person using it, then prove the decision with evidence.
No degree needed
UX Researcher
You find out what people actually do, rather than what everyone assumes they do.
No degree needed
Only roles with a complete, verified route appear here. We would rather show you three real paths than sixty stubs.
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