016 - Design Operations, Navigating Careers Paths, and How to Plan Your Career with Jackie Ajoux of Roblox

Today, I’m talking to Jackie Ajoux.-Jackie is currently the Senior Design Operations Lead at Roblox. Before Roblox, she worked at Electronic Arts as a Design Operations Manager.-Now, it may sound to you that Jackie knew she wanted to do Design Operations from the start. But as you would later hear in the episode, that was not at all the case. In fact, Jackie actually has pivoted from multiple careers, including psychology, project management, and product management. And what underlies all these career pivots? Jackie’s incredible openness and curiosity to try new things. To give an example, in the future, her dream is to create her own anime show and publish it on Crunchyroll. Like holy how cool is that?!-Seriously, I really enjoyed my conversation with Jackie. There was a lot of laughter in this one, and so without further ado, here’s my conversation with Jackie Ajoux.-===Highlights⭐ What is design operations⭐ How to plan your career early on⭐ How she navigated through multiple career paths⭐ What it means to be a great design operations lead⭐ Jackie’s aspirations for UX Research and anime show===Links🔗 Big-Ass Career Spreadsheet===Not Just Pixels is a student-led UX Design podcast that strives to help you grow as a designer and get that next design internship or job. This is the podcast I wished I had as a design student, and I hope you’ll get something valuable from this show.===Have a great day! :)