VP Global Design at Zendesk Ryan shares the frameworks his team recently rolled out for Designers, Design Managers, and brand designers. Ten levels of seniority (I particularly like ‘Distinguished Product Designer’ as the most senior IC role) with parallel IC and Manager tracks.
Career Architectures for Design Teams
https://www.figma.com/file/6FlxSoCq2gIYgEMGQub0vL/Figma-Product-Design-%26-Writing-Career-Levels-(Community)?node-id=2-151&t=OGGckthcT3HZmYem-0
product-design-career-path_ic.pdf
product-design-career-path_mgmt.pdf
brand-design-career-path_ic.pdf