About me
Highly experienced, strategic, design leader who consistently delivers multi-platform products and services that enhance business value for fintech, media, publishing and start-up organisations.
Deep understanding of what it takes to build successful digital products gained from over a decade of contracting, bookended by several years working at agencies and in house.
Currently leading a multi-disciplinary, multi-location, team working across a range of financial news and data products.
Work history
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Head of Product Design & Front End DevelopmentAcuris
London, United KingdomFull Time
• Ensured subscriber and business needs are met by introducing robust product design processes, engaging stakeholders and encouraging collaboration with other disciplines
• Evangelised for, and led, global research initiatives that enabled better product features and new product betas, which in turn resulted in key account renewals and new subscribers
• Driven 60% increase in mobile usage, and reduced development time for features, by creating consistent, responsive, design language across six core products
• Product managed relaunched Acuris iOS app directly leading to subscriber renewals
• Defined and implemented hiring processes that enabled rapid growth of team from four to 24, across two European locations
• Transitioned Product Design and Front End Development from centralised teams to multidisciplinary, product focused, squads to better meet the needs of the business
• Designed a competency matrix to facilitate career growth alongside mentoring, inspiring and empowering team members, including new leaders
• Increased team morale, productivity and retention rates by implementing a remote working policy that has subsequently become department wide
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Director of Product Design & User ExperienceSafari Books Online
- Barcelona, SpainFull Time
• Enabled rapid production of high fidelity, responsive, prototypes by implementing HTML/CSS/JS framework
• Set creative strategy by collaborating with C/VP level stakeholders, product managers, engineering and marketing
• Managed, mentored and directed team across web and native iOS/Android apps in agile development environment
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Skills
- Team Building
- Mentoring
- Design Strategy
- Stakeholder Management
- Design Direction
- Team Leadership
- Product Design
- Product Strategy
- Stakeholder Engagement
Education
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Higher National Diploma Graphic DesignYork College of Arts and Technology
- York, United Kingdom
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National Diploma in Graphic DesignYork College of Arts and Technology
- York, United Kingdom
• Old style typesetting (with metal and wooden type), repro machine gubbins
• Using Photoshop before layers where invented (argh).