Alignment with Product and Engineering leadership was an important step in this process because changes within the design team have a direct impact on our partner teams. I worked closely with my CPO and other Product and Engineering leadership to align on our short term and long term goals. Next, the Design team's structure would need to be updated so that Design Ops was included as a focus. Having a DesOps focus on the team was extremely important for Rocket at this stage in their growth because having streamlined design processes would not only make us more efficient, but would also make us more consistent and improve the quality of our designs. So, I restructured the design team and aligned two UX designers and one UX Manager to focus on DesOps as a whole, with this base template as the first project. Facilitating collaboration across EPD (Engineering, Product and Design) and with our sister company Agoda, who owns our design system, to gather requirements for base template and prioritize work was the next. And the newly formed DesOps team began investigation with the design systems team to discover how we can build quick theming into the current system. The newly formed DesOps team and I created a 3-phase plan for tackling the initial base template work and a maintenance plan for that template.