# Florian Wachter > Sr. Product Designer | Full Stack | Design Engineer bridging UX/UI design & frontend engineering | Familiar with AI technologies & integrating ML into User-Centered products Location: Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden Profile: https://flows.cv/florian Experienced designer with extensive strategic and product design skills (UX/UI/UR), passionate about solving complex design challenges, building teams, and collaborating closely with developers and product managers, especially in dynamic startup environments. ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer @ Bambuser Jan 2024 – Present | Stockholm County, Sweden As the sole designer at Bambuser, I drive the user experience across four products, ensuring impactful features and strategic alignment. Key achievements and responsibilities include: • Drove revenue growth by developing a UX/UI solution for 'Shoppable Videos,' enabling clients to sell products over video content effectively. • Boosted customer retention by designing a user-friendly onboarding experience that improved trial adoption and conversions. • Ensured operational continuity and efficiency by managing three products post-restructuring, streamlining workflows, and taking on the full design workload as the sole designer. • Improved scalability and team efficiency by creating and maintaining a design system that standardized workflows and enhanced user experience consistency. ### Sr Product Design and Frontend Development @ Florian Wachter AB Jan 2023 – Present | Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden ### Senior Product Designer (Consultant) @ Talos Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden Designed and delivered innovative user experiences for a cutting-edge trading platform (Financial product) tailored for institutional traders. This role combined innovation, strategic thinking, and hands-on collaboration to deliver impactful solutions for institutional trading in the fintech space. Key achievement's are: • Boosted user adoption by designing a white-label mobile trading app for Hatch funds and institutional traders, featuring a streamlined onboarding experience. • Increased platform engagement and usability by simplifying trading processes and implementing user-centric design innovations. • Enhanced development efficiency and consistency by providing detailed design specifications, ReactJS libraries, and guidelines, while contributing hands-on to frontend development. • Improved product quality and delivery speed by collaborating with engineers during design handoff to address technical constraints and ensure a seamless user experience. • Enabled business growth and scalability by delivering tailored design solutions that met the specific demands of the institutional fintech market. ### Senior Product Designer @ Utopia Music Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Stockholm County, Sweden • Collaborated with Sentric Music, a leading publisher in Liverpool, to streamline the costly process of offboarding artists and songs using innovative tools, resulting in a 75% reduction in the time spent on these processes. • Enabling two agile cross-functional product teams to accelerate implementation and delivery by providing them with design solutions based on user research. • Collaborating closely with developers throughout the entire product development cycle. • Contributing to the discovery, research, and design of two products that improve workflows for collection societies and publishers in order to ensure fair and transparent royalty management. • Providing input to the vision, mission, and 3-year roadmap for two products, in collaboration with product managers, technical leads, and engineering managers. • Contributing to the utopia design system within Figma and Storybook by building reusable components. ### Senior Product Designer @ Securitas Group — Intelligent services Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Stockholm, Sweden • Created a global Design-System through research and design using Figma and Storybook. It results in designers and developers completing results in significantly less time. • Strategic planning and implementation of Securitas 2020 Rebranding across Securitas digital services. • Conceptualized and developed a Figma plug-in to reduce designers' workload. On average, the plug-in saved five hours per designer per month. • Through a design pitch, all Securitas' digital services were combined into one platform. This allows customers to use one security app to meet all their needs. • Product designer for three full product cycles. These include research, defining user needs, opportunities, hypotheses, success criteria, wireframes, UX/UI design, prototypes, testing, iterations, defining MVP, distributing to development, and continuing monitoring success. Within a period of two years. • Research and UX/UI design for an Airport-Security-Planning-Tool, which reduced airport security stakeholders' workload by approximately 70%. ### Master Thesis @ Volvo Cars Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Göteborg, Schweden My Master Thesis at Volvo Cars Design Studio is about the danger of emotional driving. The research work focuses on angry driving and stress that affects our judgment and fine motor skills. Besides a research paper on the effects of anger and stress while driving. I'm designing a concept to prevent and save the user from dangerous traffic situations caused by anger and stress. ### Interaction Designer @ Volvo Cars Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Gothenburg, Sweden At Volvo Cars, I worked alongside my studies with HMI & UI / UX Design and Hi-fi Prototyping as a part-time employee. I've been involved in next-generation car projects and the Volvos app called "Volvo on Call", Polestar 2 UI/UX Design of the power recharge visualization, and filing patents. ### Masters Student @ Chalmers tekniska högskola Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Gothenburg, Sweden Interaction Design and Technology ### Teaching Assistant @ Chalmers tekniska högskola Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Gothenburg, Sweden Teaching Assistant for Human Computer Interaction and Human Centered Design ### Interaction Designer @ Schindler Creations Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Zürich At Schindler Creations, I worked with UI / UX Design and HMI Design primarily for the company Tracto-Technik. Where I did user testing and user research to create design concepts and UI designs for their ground drilling machines. ### Frontend-Development Freelancer @ VITAMIN 2 AG Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | St.Gallen At VITAMIN 2 I woked as a freelancer for Front-end web development. I was involved in: Pro-audito st.gallen, Acustica, Enastra, and Chocolarium ### Interaction Developer Intern @ Hinderling Volkart AG Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Zürich At Hinderling Volkart I worked with: - Front-end Engineering in the web environment: HTML, CSS, JS, SASS, HAML - Conception and programming of web applications - Development of Wireframes and prototypes - Conception, design, and execution of animations in 2D- and 3D In addition, I was involved in the following client projects: - Website for and about the artist Cuno Amiet - Relaunch of the website of Alfred Muller - Brand monitoring tool for Post AG - Banner for Swiss Tourism ### Junior Interaction Designer @ Ansich GmbH Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Zürich und Umgebung, Schweiz At Ansich, I worked with: Web Design, UI/UX Design, Front-end Development, Research, Conceptual Design, Wireframing and prototyping, and assistance for film production. ### Junior Interaction Designer @ Helsana Versicherungen AG Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Zürich und Umgebung, Schweiz At Helsana Insurance, I worked as a Freelancer with Hi-fi Prototyping and Front-end Development. I developed a prototype for a convenient selection of insurance in AngularJS. ### Junior Interaction Designer & Web Developer @ Badesaison Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Zürich und Umgebung, Schweiz As a Badesaison intern, I worked on Grafik design for websites and its development. Specifically with the website of the Pirlo magazine, which I was part of the design and the developed during my internship. ### Junior Interaction Designer @ Studentlab AG Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Winterthur und Umgebung, Schweiz Concept Design, Wire-framing , UI/UX Design, Front-end Development ### Fachinformatiker für Systemintegration @ cellent Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Aalen und Umgebung, Deutschland Second-level IT Support, IT Consultant ## Education ### Master Interaction Design and Technology in Interaction Design UI/UX Chalmers University of Technology ### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Interaction Design ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ### Abitur Technische Oberschule Stuttgart ### IT Specialist for Systemintegration in Informatik cellent AG ### B.A. Industrial Design in Intraction Design Zurich University of the Art ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Interaction Design Zurich University of the Art ### Bachelor in Industrial Design in Interaction Design (UX and UX Research) ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/flo-w - Portfolio: http://florianwachter.com/ - Portfolio: https://florianwachter.medium.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/florian JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/florian/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31