Stuck in Your UX Career? Let’s Create a Path You’re Excited About
Get personalized UX career coaching to find your next career role in a tough market, build collaborative relationships with your team members or take your UX career past senior levels to leadership and management roles.
Join me in identifing what may be holding you back and developing effective strategies to overcome those challenges.
UXPEERS. Mentoring Membership
UX Career Advice and Peer Support
Join the community of UX professionals committed to growing their careers and receive mentoring in tackling challenges in topics like job hunt and portfolios, managing stakeholders, UX management & strategy ...
Answers to questions like: How do I find the right role? What makes my application stand out? What do I need to step into a UX leadership role?
Find the support you need to finally get that side project of the ground or your portfolio done.
1:1 UX Career Coaching
From Senior UX Roles into Leadership
In in-depth and focused 1:1 sessions, we'll create the necessary headspace to work on your career development.
Uncovering if a manager or individual contributor track is right for you, if you tend towards specialist or generalist or if you might even switch fields alltogether.
Together, we'll uncover the values and motivations that drive your UX career. I will help you built a plan based on your unique needs that is tailored to your individual strengths.
What you get
UX Career Coaching Benefits
How our work impacts your career
Get a clear understanding of where your organization stands in their UX practice and develop a strategy for improvement steps you can take. By defining a realistic picture of your current state, you'll be better equipped to identify areas for growth and take action to improve.
Staying focused on your UX career growth can get tough especially when obstacles get in the way.
We’ll use reflective exercises and EXACT goal mapping to celebrate what you have already achieved and keep you moving towards your goals.
We’ll Identify your values and strengths beyond UX hard skills and learn how to apply them to grow as a UX craft leader and manager.
With clarity on your values and strengths, you'll make confident progress in achieving career goals that align with who you are.
You'll gain greater certainty in communicating, collaborating more effectively, and building stronger relationships with those around you.
We’ll use your UX skills to improve effectiveness by considering the needs of your stakeholders, peers, and partners.
Wanting a UX career isn’t enough. With all the energy needed to do the job, you’ll need a plan and support system to foster your growth.
Set goals and build actionable routines that work for you and your organization and aligns with your values and priorities.
Coaching gets personal and can touch sensitive topics. That’s why it is important to work with someone that binds themselves to confidentiality, partnering coach-client relationships and continued coaching education.
I adhere to the code of ethics and core values of the international coaching federation.
What others Say
Kind words from clients and mentees
We had a talk about the career challenges and Marvin helped me understand the way to go. He's a good listener and it helped to validate my thoughts and ideas with a more experienced designer. Would love to talk with Marvin again.
Anton Tolkunov 🇩🇪
Senior UX Designer, Vodafone
Marvin quickly understood my challenge and provided very structured and comprehensive advice. The advice provided me with steps to unpack the situation to the root cause, while addressing it along the way. It was to the point and encouraging for me to move forward in the right direction.
Vivienne Zhang 🇩🇪
Senior Product Design Lead, Wayfair
Talking with Marvin was great. He gave me honest and kind reviews. He guided me not only in portfolio directions but also in how I should develop my mind to be ready for the job. I highly recommend Marvin as a mentor!
Tamika Kawabuchi 🇩🇪
UI UX Designer, CareerFoundary
Marvin was great to talk to. He asked really good questions to drive the conversation and shared a lot of his experience and insight. I left the conversation with resources and plenty to think on for what's next in my career path. I would highly encourage any senior designers trying to figure out what their next steps are to have a chat with Marvin. Thanks for your time and insights Marvin! I'm looking forward to chatting again in the future. Cheers!
Jennie C 🇵🇷
Senior Product Designer, Clari
I had an incredibly insightful session with Marvin, who possesses extensive industry experience. His guidance on job searching, resume enhancement, and portfolio optimization was invaluable. As an encouraging mentor, he provided constructive feedback and shared practical insights into the job market. What set Marvin apart was not just his vast knowledge but also his ability to understand my profile and offer tailored advice.
Sharik Ahamed 🇩🇪
UX & UI Designer, (GMMN) e.V.
The session with Marvin was very encouraging. He is positive and attentive to my questions. I enjoy hearing him share about his career growth and experience, which I find inspiring. He also gave me a lot of tips to navigate work challenges. I would recommend Marvin to designers of all levels.
Joni Mok 🇩🇰
UX Designer, Stibo Systems
How to Work with Me
Don't buy the cat in the bag
Coaching Conversation
Coaching is a powerful tool to help you overcome obstacles and achieve your goals. However, finding the right coach for you can be challenging. That's why I offer a free, unconditional coaching conversation to help us get to know each other.
- Let’s talk about your challenges and goals
- I'll provide you with valuable coaching insights
- Create an action plan tailored to your needs
- Help you achieve your career goals
Decide Together
Sometimes, one call is all you need, and should we come to a decision, that's the case. I'm glad I was able to be helpful, and we call it a day. However, when we discover that working together could provide more value to you, we will decide which of my coaching offers is right for you.
Get your UX Career Unstuck
Once we commit to achieving your career goals together, our joined journey begins. We'll meet for coaching sessions either every 2 or 4 weeks depending on what your schedule allows. In between sessions you'll have access to me via chat for ongoing support. As your coach, know that I'm fully invested in your success and will be in your corner every step of the way from the intial analysis of your challenges to achieving your career goals.
Get Started
Book a free 60-minute coaching session to discuss UX career challenges and learn how I can help you achieve your career goals
Crafting UX Careers Newsletter
Learn about UX career insights, effective UX management, and optimal collaboration. I'll share my thoughts, career-building exercises, and resources in each newsletter edition.