Paco Martínez

Head of Product & Design at Ventup (MX) | Product Design & Product Management leader | Full Stack Product Designer

[Paco Martínez @paco_mtz_design]

@soynumx Gracias @soynumx , aprecio mucho el sentido de urgencia que le dieron ayer a mi reporte, hoy tuve respuesta y solución por parte de su equipo: gracias de nuevo… reconozco que estuve momesto y estresado pero también es importante reconocer que lo remediaron tras este reporte 🙏

[Paco Martínez @paco_mtz_design]

@soynumx 6+ días de que me bloquearon acceso a todos mis ahorros en cajitas y nadie me puede ayudar a resolverlo en ninguno de sus canales 🤡🤡🤡 ¿Con qué confianza nos piden guardar nuestros ahorros si no pueden garantizarnos acceso a los mismos 🙃 ? ¿Cómo recupero acceso a mi dinero 💀?

[CharoEnValle @charoencasa]

Si un juego de peleas sucediera en Monterrey, en dónde serían los escenarios de los combates?
Primera opción:

[Jehad Affoneh @jaffoneh]

Startups often struggle with hiring their first designer.

Designers often struggle defining their role in a startup.

More startups are realizing that a designer as an early employee is an advantage.

Here are ways startups & designers can think about this challenge. 🧵

[Paco Martínez @paco_mtz_design]

@gabrielasalinas ¿Qué en específico te conmovió 😅?

[Jean-Michel Lemieux @jmwind]

Another common question I’m answering working with scaling tech companies is…

Q. What’s the worst leadership advice you’ve heard?

A. By far the worst is “Hire great people and get out of their way”.

Let me explain… 🧵 (1/32)

[The Design Systems Horse, est: 2008 @horse_designsys]

In short, a Design System has a strong impact

[Paco Martínez @paco_mtz_design]

When I interview candidates as hiring manager, I always leave a space in my notes to record “candidate’s questions”. Usually the quality of these questions is high in candidates that are promising in all other aspects.

[Lily Konings @lilykonings]

Give yourself full permission to interview your future managers back. When they ask "Do you have any questions for me," take the opportunity to expose what your next 1+ years under this person might be like.

Here are 5 questions I have or wished I'd asked of my future managers:

[Paco Martínez @paco_mtz_design]

@NocheVolta

[Paco Martínez @paco_mtz_design]

@gabrielasalinas Time Management Worst Practices as a Means to Generative Art, an essay by @gabrielasalinas

[Paco Martínez @paco_mtz_design]

@eldelentes YES 🙌🏼!!!

[Paco Martínez @paco_mtz_design]

Boy, how fun it is to prepare a deck with findings after user interviews… Validating assumptions can become such an addictive candy 🍬😬

[Allison Smith @QueensParkToday]

We need to talk about how chaotic the signs at the Toronto Island petting zoo are.

[Paco Martínez @paco_mtz_design]

@eldelentes Tú tranquilo viejo, todo va a salir bien y pronto tendrás a tu papá de vuelta en casa, te mando muchos abrazos y aquí estoy para lo que necesites 🙌🏼

[Gabriela. @gabrielasalinas]

Most are good, but only 1 out of 30 was written by a woman. Diversify who you listen to.

[Paco Martínez @paco_mtz_design]

I already started working on my Pinterest boards “Cozy Parking Spaces 🌸” and “Contemporary Storage Locker Decor 🪴” 😤👌💯

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[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

I've interviewed thousands of product manager candidates.

Here are my top 5 interview questions and why I ask them:

[Tigran Hakobyan @tiggreen]

As you grow in your engineering career, you keep recognizing that you're not hired for creating programs but rather for creating business value. The sooner you realize, the better for your career.