Design Org Skills — Design skill for Claude Code
A Claude skill for Leadership and Org Decision Frameworks for Design leads & CPO.
How to install Design Org Skills
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open rastian/design-org-skills and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Design Org Skills does
A Claude skill for Leadership and Org Decision Frameworks for Design leads & CPO.
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README
◈ DIAGNOSE → DECIDE → LEAD ◈
Design Org
**Org design, people management, and executive decision-making for design leaders.** Built for VP of Design, Head of Design, CPO, CTO, and Design Directors navigating the hard calls that don't have easy answers.
Install
**Add to an existing Claude Code project:**
git clone https://github.com/65ping/design-leadership-skill.git .claude/skills/design-leadership
**Or install globally** (available across all your projects):
git clone https://github.com/65ping/design-leadership-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/design-leadership
Claude Code will detect the skill automatically. No configuration needed.
What It Does
This skill turns Claude into a senior advisor for design org leadership. Bring it a real decision - org structure, hiring, a difficult conversation, a political problem, a VP transition - and get framework-grounded, opinionated guidance that connects design to business outcomes.
"Should I centralize or embed my designers now that we're scaling to 40 people?"
"I have a senior designer who's underperforming. How do I handle this without losing them?"
"Engineering keeps making design decisions without us. How do I fix this structurally?"
"I just got promoted to VP. What do I stop doing immediately?"
"How do I build a critique culture that doesn't feel like a roast?"
Claude responds with a diagnosis of your org stage, the relevant framework, a clear recommendation with trade-offs named, and the specific anti-patterns to avoid.
The Nine Decision Domains
| # | Domain | What It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Org Structure | Centralized vs. embedded vs. federated models, maturity stages, span of control |
| 2 | Hiring | What great looks like at each level, future org chart, IC vs. manager tracks |
| 3 | Managing Up | Earning exec credibility, language that works, when and how to push back |
| 4 | **Cross-Fun |
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