Getting alignment & building trust with our stakeholders

05/12/22 • 37 min

Our guest today is Yuiko Majima, a senior product designer at our team who works on our customer experience group internal tools, where she gets to manage different stakeholders and to work with different parts of our business.
Yuiko is here today to share with us how she manage and work with so many stakeholders and her interesting and quite unique background in sales and project management, before transitioning into design.

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Design Explorers by Agoda Design - Getting alignment & building trust with our stakeholders

Transcript

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

stakeholders, designer, design, people, sales, product, cg, agent, clients, customer, understand, realised, create, users, learned, project management, conflict, collaborate, booked, organisation

SPEAKERS

Nahum, Yuiko, Yuki

Yuiko 00:00

trust is something that doesn't come one day. Like it's not something that's short term, I think it's a building of it's kind of this accumulation of all the d