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Lily is a design leader, speaker, and advisor. Starting in engineering, Lily took to…
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Lily Konings posted this🖼️ I'm hiring a graphic designer at Figma! Looking for a 6-month, full time contractor to push creative boundaries using new technology. This is a fun project that needs someone who has a strong portfolio creating visual assets for web, social media, advertising, and packaging while staying ahead of industry trends to bring fresh, cutting-edge design approaches. If you're interested, DM me with your best work.
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Lily Konings shared thisCome work with the excellent designers on my team!Lily Konings shared this🥳 I'm hiring PMs at Figma! On the lookout for a scrappy 0-1 PM with strong design chops to lead product for all of FigJam! If you're interested in joining this rocket ship, building a product that redefines the future of collaboration, and taking FigJam to new heights, apply below and tag folks who'd be a good fit! Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eUACiyNK More on FigJam here: https://lnkd.in/eBaKreCW
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Lily Konings shared thisI'm hiring Product Designers at Figma! These folks will shape some of our most beloved products: FigJam and Community. We're looking for exceptional craftspeople who prototype as a means to articulate nuanced design decisions and sweat the details to execute a vision that redefines the future of the company. If that sounds like you, I'd love to hear from you. ➮ Product Designer, FigJam https://lnkd.in/echuheKs ➮ Product Designer, Community https://lnkd.in/eQaUt_BM
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Lily Konings shared thisAfter 1.5 years hiatus in writing, I published the next issue of my newsletter on a topic that I've answered countless times for myself and for my mentees: "Should I become a manager?" IC vs Management is a fork in the road we all consider eventually in our career. And while I love being a manager, I also know it's not for everyone. Hopefully I can make that decision easier for you here. Link to issue: https://lnkd.in/g_-NuXmK
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Lily Konings posted thisMy team at Facebook is taking as many referrals as possible til the end of the week to fill roles across engineering, product, design, content, research, and data. If you are from an underrepresented group and interested in working with us, I'd love to refer you to any of the following: → IC: 6+ years → Manager: 5+ years in management → Director: 10+ years If you're interested but don't yet meet the above YoE requirements, PLEASE reach out anyways and I'll add you to my personal list of referrals for other opportunities both in and outside of FB.
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Lily Konings shared thisI had a blast on Nodes of Design talking my own career and my biggest pieces of advice for anyone breaking into design for the first time. A few key takeaways: → How I pivoted from engineering to design: "Crafting my narrative meant: how do I make other people see how an engineer could be a really good designer?" → Building feedback loops: "Quantity in feedback is likely not to hurt for someone just starting out in their career, although the more you do grow in that role, the more you probably will want to be strategic about the types of feedback you ask for and start aiming for quality." → What to include and exclude in your portfolio: "Definitely don't pack your portfolio with skills that are irrelevant to the role you want. I've seen too many people put on their portfolio everything under the sun in hopes of getting lucky when in reality, it just makes it harder for the recruiter to evaluate you as a candidate."Lily Konings shared thisOn this week's episode of Nodes of Design, we hosted Lily Konings, a Product Designer at Facebook, working on messaging experiences within Instagram. Before Facebook, she was at AngelList, where she improved the job searching experience for millions of candidates and worked at IBM Watson Health. Episode Link - https://lnkd.in/drsjU9A In this episode, Lily had shared great insights on how to design your design career; we spoke on how can designers be industry ready in the constant developing space. Lily shared few techniques (do's & don't) that she had personally used to increase her growth both professionally and personally as a designer; along with that, we discussed how designers could craft their own narrative as they grow in their career? And also how to reflect the same narrative in their portfolios. Takeaways- How to be industry-ready always, How to cultivate a growth mindset, How to craft narratives. This podcast is a non-profit initiative that aims to make design education accessible to all. #design #designtalks #podcast #career #uxdesign #applepodcast
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Lily Konings shared thisLast month I tweeted asking if womxn in tech wanted to connect and talk about money and within days, I had 2.5k womxn sign up. Yesterday, I finally announced Lift Her Wealth, a 2-day free event to learn from each other on how to become better investors, stronger negotiators, and overall more empowered decision-makers when it comes to building personal wealth. We will have facilitated breakout sessions, workshops, and 15 speakers, including: ↳ Sallie Krawcheck, CEO of Ellevest: The 6 Money Lies Women Are Told ↳ Allison Barr Allen, COO of Fast: Stock Investing 101 ↳ Vrinda Gupta, CEO of Sequin Financial, Inc.: The Hidden Costs of Being a Woman ↳ And many more at http://lift-her-wealth.com Support us by registering or helping spread the word to womxn in your network. Hope to see you there! #women #womenintech #womenfounders #personalfinance #wealth #productdesign #socialimpact #mentorship #tech
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Lily Konings reacted on thisLily Konings reacted on thisCharting new paths means investing even further into user research. Duolingo is looking for a senior researcher to help us discover new ways our app and business can evolve. If you’re a researcher, reach out to Kaity and Sarika! https://lnkd.in/e_VmjfNp
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Lily Konings reacted on thisLily Konings reacted on thisWe doubled our design team. Big welcome to rocky chen ✌️, who’s joining [untitled] as a Product Designer. We met as design interns at Facebook in 2016. Since then, Rocky’s worked at Messenger, Instagram, and Figma at the intersection of culture and creative tools. We’re betting on being the highest craft company in music, and we're doubling the engineering team. If you care about building high-quality tools for artists, we’re hiring. https://lnkd.in/eHHza4Pm
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Lily Konings reacted on thisLily Konings reacted on thisLook Ma!! I made it onto Business Insider 🎉 🎉 🎉 2️⃣ weeks ago, Erin Greenawald reached out to me asking if I would be interested in participating in an article about how soloprenuer & community led businesses are utilizing AI to drive growth. I jumped at the opportunity because at Ask a Chief of Staff, we strongly believe in using AI to enhance the member experience, not replace the human one. Here are a few of the talking points I shared ⬇️ 🤖 AI should reduce the repetitive work so you can be more present ⚡️ AI can help you build “high-touch” systems without a massive ops team 📊 AI helps me make decisions with data vs. pure intuition 💡 AI is for automation, NOT for replacing humans Any time we win back, we funnel back into more human touch points so members feel taken care of and supported. I'm so extremely honored to be featured in this article alongside Gabriela Fiorentino (founder of Nest Earth) and Lis Best (founder of Girls Club Collective) 💜 A huge thank you to Dreamers & Doers® for make this feature possible in the first place! 📸 And another huge thanks to Seven24 Collective for providing the backdrop to my photos. Thank you for giving this solopreneur a place to work & think that's not my tiny apartment 😅 ��� Full article link in the comments 👇
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Lily Konings reacted on thisLily Konings reacted on thisOK, one more bit of personal news! This week I started a new role at Superhuman, as Head of Design for Superhuman Mail. I've always loved working on communication tools, and I'm especially looking forward to exploring how everything will change with emerging tech. I have a hunch that the future looks VERY different from today, where so many of the current annoyances and drudge work in collaboration can become more invisible and automatic. Then you'll be able to spend more time on what matters most. Superhuman is uniquely suited to figure this out. We'll be focused on building really useful products that empower people to work better. Cheers to everyone on the Superhuman team who helped me along the way so far. Excited to get rolling!
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Lily Konings reacted on thisLily Konings reacted on thisExcited to share my new side project! Joon is a delightful spend tracker that asks you to decide... is this transaction a need, something I want, or for savings? I've been having so much fun building opinionated software for myself, improving my Swift knowledge, and even dipping my toes into RealityKit to build the interactive donut chart. I'll be posting progress updates in 2026 over at Twitter and opening up the TestFlight in the next few days -> https://x.com/joon_app Happy new year! 🥂
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Lily Konings reacted on thisLily Konings reacted on this5️⃣ 5️⃣ , 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ followers here on LinkedIn today 😱 What an exciting way to kick off the new year on the platform that jumpstarted my own Chief of Staff career! When I became the Chief of Staff at Hugging Face 6️⃣ years ago, it was my first time being a Chief of Staff and my CEO's first time having a Chief of Staff. And then, almost as soon as I started, the world shut down 😷 COVID hit, offices closed, and suddenly I was a first-time Chief of Staff helping a CEO figure out how to run a company remotely... ...in the middle of a global crisis 🌎 💌 So I did what I knew how to do: I reached out. A lot. ☕️ I started DM’ing Chiefs of Staff on LinkedIn, hundreds of them, asking for 1️⃣ 5️⃣ minute coffee chats so I could: → learn what their day-to-day actually looked like → understand how they partnered with their CEOs → hear what was working (and what was breaking) as their companies moved from in-person to remote → steal… respectfully 😅… their best systems, scripts, and operating rhythms And I learned something pretty quickly ⬇️ The best way to learn how to be a Chief of Staff isn’t Googling it (and we definitely didn’t have ChatGPT back then). 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟. You take 1️⃣ 0️⃣ different answers from people in the role, spot the patterns, and then consolidate them into a solution that fits your CEO, your org size, and your stage. 💡 That experience is why I started posting on LinkedIn 4️⃣ years ago. I wanted to share the tactical lessons I was learning in real time, for anyone else who was sitting there thinking: “Is it just me… or is this role wildly ambiguous and kind of lonely sometimes?” 💜 What started as me crowdsourcing answers for help turned into building a community around the Chief of Staff space. And somehow, that community is now 5️⃣ 5️⃣ , 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ people here on LinkedIn. 😭 🙏🏼 I’m so grateful you’re here: whether you’ve been following since the early days or you just found your way into this corner of LinkedIn.
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Lily Konings reacted on thisLily Konings reacted on thisAfter 8 amazing years at Instagram and Meta, I’m starting a new adventure. Today is my first day at Google DeepMind. I’ve joined to lead experience for Gemini app. I’ve made my career at the edge of how we consume and interact with digital information. First for the web era, then for the mobile era, and now for the AI era. Gemini is the state of the art. It is unlocking new ways to bring all our ideas to life. I feel deeply called to work with Google DeepMind on how we all benefit from this AI. As I leave Meta, I say goodbye to a world class team and products. Leading Instagram’s core consumer experience and launching its video format, Reels, has been the opportunity of a lifetime. Now, it’s on to the next.
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Lily Konings reacted on thisLily Konings reacted on thisExploring generative art and coding this year has made me reflect on how this new way of building opens up space for smaller, more personal products. As a fun experiment, I built Thru, an app that turns your daily steps into virtual progress along the Pacific Crest Trail — the 2,650-mile hiking route from Mexico to Canada. What started as a fun way to log miles while marathon training gradually became something more: a reflection on slow media, a product designed not to capture your time but to help you notice it. There’s something so fulfilling about creating a product that exists just for you. It doesn’t need to scale, optimize, or monetize. It just needs to make sense in your world — to reflect something about who you are, or how you move through life. While Thru is as a personal project, I hope you might find something in it too — maybe a sense of calm, or curiosity, or simply a reminder that creating something personal can be its own reward. Thru is available on the App Store. https://lnkd.in/drycrkeu Happy trails ✌️
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