🔥 #70 - Jobs at Patreon, Spotify, AirBnB & OpenAI

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The GPS Theory

I like super simple frameworks and great metaphors for life and work, and this is one for the books 🙂 

I read about this somewhere recently - Maybe a instagram post? Anyway it stuck with me. I don’t know who originally coined it, but I genuinely like the concept.

It’s called the GPS theory.

When you miss a turn, your GPS doesn’t panic.
It doesn’t judge you.
It doesn’t remind you that you should’ve known better.

It just recalculates.

Careers, especially creative ones, work the exact same way.

I took detours.
I took the wrong role.
I shipped something you’re not proud of.
Said to things you later wish you’d declined.

None of that deletes the destination.

There’s no cosmic reset button that wipes out your goals because you made a less than perfect decision. The route just changes. Quietly. Automatically.

The problem is we treat wrong turns like failures instead of signals. We stare at the missed exit instead of watching the road ahead. Meanwhile, progress is still possible if you keep moving.

Growth isn’t linear. It never was. It’s adaptive.

And as a designer, this is kind of the whole job.

Design isn’t about picking the perfect path upfront. It’s about responding to change. Learning from feedback. Reworking ideas. Iterating when reality doesn’t match the plan.

A wrong turn isn’t a failure, it’s information.

Every detour sharpens your taste. Every adjustment teaches you something new about users, systems, or yourself. The designers who grow the fastest aren’t the ones who never miss a turn they’re the ones who know how to recalibrate without drama.

Design, like a good GPS, is less about certainty and more about responsiveness.

Keep learning. Keep adjusting. Keep moving forward.

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Design Jobs

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OpenAI because they are probably going public this year. And you could be pretty set for life. Feel free to ignore if you are not keen on working design in the AI field.

1. Content Designer, Open AI (San Francisco & New York City)

2. Lead Product Designer, Health Ai, Open AI (San Francisco)

3. Product Designer, Business Products (San Francisco)

4. Product Designer, ChatGPT (San Francisco)

5. Product Designer, Consumer Ads (San Francisco)

6. Product Designer, Growth (San Francisco)

AirBnB - Live and Work Anywhere. Yep you read that right! AirBnB is fully remote.

1. Experience Designer, International. AirBnB (China)

2. Senior Manager, Design (China)

3. Staff Experience Designer (China)

4. Staff Experience Designer (USA)

1. Spotify Product Designer (NYC, USA)

   

   I like Patreon

2. Product Designer, Discovery. Patreon (San Francisco and New York City)

3. Product Designer, Business Intelligence (San Francisco and New York City)

4. Product Designer, Creator Success (San Francisco and New York City)

5. Staff Product Designer, Payments (San Francisco and New York City)

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Love,
Sid.

Who am I?
I am a Design Director at The LEGO Group and live in Denamrk. I love it when you write to me. Especially if you have job tips or if you have read one of my little pieces and have another topic idea!

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