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The Case for Career Sabbaticals

I took six months off between roles and it changed everything. What I learned about creative renewal, building leverage, and why the best career moves look like pauses...

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Slow Goods Co.

DTC brand · Co-founder

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Designing for Trust

Config 2025 · Main Stage

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Maya Chen

Maya Chen

Design Lead · Building products that feel inevitable

San Francisco, CA

8+ years 3 companies 12 articles

Career Story

A design leader who builds at the intersection of craft and strategy. Started as a junior designer at a 10-person startup, where she shipped the product that landed their Series A. That eye for "what feels right" led her to Stripe, where she redesigned the onboarding flow used by 2M+ businesses.

Now leading design at Linear, she's shaping how teams think about software. Her writing on design systems has been read by 50K+ people, and she speaks at conferences about the gap between design tools and design thinking.

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8 years in the field 3 companies · startup → scale-up → enterprise 12 articles published Strongest in: Design Systems, Product Thinking, Visual Design

Experience

2022 — Now
Design Lead Linear
2019 — 2022
Senior Product Designer Stripe
2016 — 2019
Product Designer Notion (early team)

Writing

Mar 2025
Why Design Systems Fail ↗ Substack · 12K reads
Jan 2025
The IC-to-Lead Transition ↗ Substack · 8K reads
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Strong fit 91%

Maya has 8 years of progressive design experience, including 3 years in a leadership role at Linear. She's managed teams of 6+ designers, shipped design systems used across products, and has deep experience in B2B SaaS — all strong indicators for VP-level readiness.

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