In this episode of Modern Skill Stack Oleksii Tkachenko, Senior Content Designer (formerly at Perk, Klarna, and Allset) shared his hardest learned lesson: working harder than anyone on the team can actually make you invisible.
His two-step fix for building visibility starting today:
• Self-promotion: Post a Slack update about what you just shipped and why it mattered. Start with your own team. Then the broader design channel. Then the all-hands. The goal is a repeatable signal, not a one-off announcement.
• Find your first advocate: Pick one PM who already sees some value in what you do. Work closely with them. Then communicate the outcome publicly. The more advocates like that you build, the more people start saying your name in the planning meetings you're not in yet.
The full conversation is on YouTube and Substack. Watch it to see exactly how Oleksii built this system from a performance review that went wrong.
