Lead Product Designer
4½ yrs at Spotify. Optimising for impact and collaboration. Prototyping 🜃product strategy with leadership. Making people smile with ⌓lyrics and karaoke, chasing growth opportunities in Japan. Scaling decisions and quality with ⎄design systems.
15 yrs honing design craft, learning on the job and at the outer limits of my comfort zone. An explorer of the state of the art at Spotify, Microsoft, Nokia, TomTom.
Learning to influence more broadly as I grow. To emerge from vast, deep explorations with crystal clear strategy. Advocating for design quality in the service of confident consensus. Quality in the service of collaboration & meaningful user impact.
Case studies
2018 – 2019 • Spotify
Opportunity solution trees
Lyrics & Karaoke
⌓
Market understanding, ideation, validation, to global rollout
2020 – 2022 • Spotify
i18n tokens, patterns, components
Design systems
⎄
Level up design quality while driving company strategy
Leader & individual contributor
Leading with humility and growth mindset to develop talent at Associate to Senior levels. Looking for opportunities to coach, mentor & lead direct reports.
2016 – 2017 • TomTom Sports
"Inspiring storyteller"
This is a recording from a conference where I present the design principles we established and put into practice at TomTom Sports.
Levelling
Startups
If you’re a recruiter, I’m looking for VP or Head Of positions at start-up and scale-ups
Mid-sized
Director, Lead or Principal roles at mid-size firms
Enterprise
Senior or Staff Design roles at scaled, enterprise companies