Design careers, screened by portfolio decisions, not artifacts.
Product, UX, brand, and interior design — résumés, portfolios, and case-study interview guides written by hiring managers from IDEO, Figma, Notion, Linear, and Stripe.
Design portfolios lose offers when they show artifacts instead of decisions. A hiring committee cares about the trade-off you made, the constraint you designed against, and the metric your design moved — not the polish of your slides. Marqee's design coverage is co-owned by Julian Vega (ex-IDEO, Figma, Airbnb) and Henry Wong (ex-Notion, Linear, Stripe). Every guide here is written to the case-study interview — the three-slide-per-project structure that gives a committee enough to actually decide.
What the design careers vertical actually covers
Design Careers at Marqee spans 6 US Standard Occupational Classification codes — from individual-contributor roles through director and executive levels. The guides in this hub are written to how each role is actually screened, interviewed, and leveled by the employers that hire the largest volumes.
Every résumé example lists the ATS keywords a parser looks for. Every interview guide lists the loops actually run. Every salary guide lists the real US band, the levers a recruiter can move, and the levers they can't. That specificity is what separates a guide that helps from a guide that fills space.
Resume examples
5 guidesRole-specific resume examples with the responsibilities, tools, ATS keywords, and salary range that pass a screen.
Cover letter examples
3 guidesCover letters written to the exact hire this vertical actually screens for — not template mad-libs.
Interview questions
2 guidesQuestion banks and framework answers built to the loops this vertical actually runs.
Salary guides
2 guidesRealistic US ranges by role, level, and market — with the levers a recruiter can actually move.
How-to-become guides
2 guidesEntry-path guides — degrees, licenses, portfolios, and the first-role playbook by occupation.
Compare adjacent roles
1 guideHead-to-head breakdowns of two roles this vertical hires side by side — day-to-day, comp, and where the interview loops diverge.
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