Ron Goldin - Building your ideas as a design leader
From Dive Club 🤿 by Ridd
June 9, 2026 · 54 min · Episode 168
About this episode
This episode features Ron Goldin discussing his experiences and insights as a design leader in the AI era.
This week's episode is with Ron Goldin who has led design at Google, Shopify, UberEats, and in my opinion... he's the perfect example of what it looks like to thrive as a design leader in an AI world. So this week’s episode is a deep dive into his journey as a builder and it’s full of stories: Redesigning the Shopify checkout Ron’s unique research tactics for UberEats Building MTCHMKR from scratch in Lovable Navigating the job market as a design leader a lot more
People in this episode
Host: Ridd
Guest: Ron Goldin
Topics covered
- design leadership
- AI in design
- career development
- product design
- research tactics
Keywords
- design leader
- AI
- Shopify checkout
- UberEats research
- job market
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Google, Shopify, UberEats
Books & works: MTCHMKR
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