Careers

Community building is gaining popularity and breaking ground as a career for a good reason; it drives business success. This emerging career field, its expanding universe of skills, competencies, and knowledge has led to various community-related roles. In this piece, Laís De Oliveira shares her journey into community and how the On Deck Community Builders fellowship aims to equip its fellows with approaches to community building that will unlock success.

Laís De Oliveira

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When it comes to OKRs, Harry Siggins has seen it all. Harry leads internal OKR development as Chief of Staff at Gtmhub, a global leader in OKR software and consulting for organizations. In this guide, he leverages his rich expertise to articulate the value of OKRs and highlight six killer mistakes to avoid when implementing them at your company. 

Harry Siggins

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When it comes to investing, your emotions matter. Keeping them in check when analyzing the markets is key to avoiding losses and capitalizing on opportunities. Callie Cox, Senior Investment Strategist at Ally Invest, draws on her personal and professional successes in finance to bring you habits for strengthening your mental fortitude when investing.

Callie Cox

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Healthy cross-functional relationships are key for customer success teams to do their job. In this indispensable guide for customer success leaders, Rod Cherkas, CEO of consulting firm HelloCCO and mentor for ODCS fellows, draws from his 15+ years of experience as a post-sales exec to provide a masterclass in building relationships with cross-functional partners.

Rod Cherkas

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‍Being a design manager is different than being an individual designer. It means balancing different roles, while focusing on unlocking and supporting the best work from the design team rather than your own contributions.

David Hoang

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Josefin Graebe opens up her Chief of Staff playbook to share some of the lessons and best practices she’s picked up throughout her years of experience serving in the role. With hard-won lessons gleaned from her time at companies like Uber and Lime, she lays out a set of principles for designing operating models that any Chief of Staff will find useful.

Josefin Graebe

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On February 16, 2021, Sonal Chokshi, Editor-in-Chief of Andreessen Horowitz and Showrunner of the a16z Podcast Network, gave a popular talk to our inaugural class of On Deck Podcasting fellows (in conversation with Sachit Gupta) on creating a podcast brand. Here are just some of the big lessons and actionable takeaways on how to build your show identity, from one of the best in the business.

Sonal Chokshi, Sachin Maini

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