Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
• Designing clarity from complexity – transforming pro-level charting & strategy tools into intuitive, confidence-building experiences.
• Building a world-class design org – growing a diverse team where high craft and measurable business impact coexist.
• Championing customer empathy – weaving real trader stories into every product bet we make.
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
• Led an international UX team across design, research, content design, and design systems, driving alignment with product and engineering goals
• Defined and implemented a UX vision and strategy for enterprise that elevated product quality and user satisfaction
• Directed a comprehensive product UX re-architecture, incorporating artificial intelligence (A.I.), and improving user flows and feature alignment to optimize user engagement and outcomes
• Introduced data-driven best practices for decision-making and product development, fostering a culture of evidence-based design
• Developed team infrastructure, collaboration practices, and career growth frameworks, enhancing performance and professional development
• Established cross-functional processes and feedback loops to drive alignment, communication, and continuous improvement, including design thinking, prototyping, analytics, and qualitative research
2018 — 2023
2018 — 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
• Led a product design team of 20, drove measurable team performance with OKRs, & developed an industry leading, world-class design culture
• Prioritized key roadmap efforts with Product & Engineering stakeholders to execute quick wins for customers & prospects, resulting in a 13% increase in sales (based on win/loss analysis)
• Created & collaborated on a multi-year vision & cross-functional transition to a seamless product suite (CMS, CDP, CMP, Commerce, A/B Experimentation) & developer platform, including instituting & exceeding key growth metrics (breadth, depth, & velocity) by 7%
• Navigated the company through an acquisition, large organizational transformation, & ongoing culture shift, while lowering annual team attrition to less than 5%.
• Attracted, nurtured, inspired, & retained top talent; with a people-first approach; elevated, mentored, & empowered user experience, design systems, & user research teams to exceed company goals in diversity, equity, & inclusion by 150%
• Drove two product portfolio rebranding initiatives end-to-end, led the effort to establish a common visual language & cohesive product portfolio experience for 16 products, resulting in a mean 1.4 NPS increase
• Established processes & feedback loops to improve cross-functional alignment, communication, & collaboration; including design thinking, continuous improvement, design socialization, qualitative & quantitative research methods & synthesis, prototyping, usage analytics & insights, & overall setting the bar for design st&ards & elevating design aesthetics
• Empowered enterprise / SMB customers & partners by evangelizing methodologies for design, data visualization insights, & hypothesis experimentation based on the scientific method
• Evangelized current trends, emerging technologies, & customer-centric innovation by speaking at industry conferences & providing thought leadership & expert guidance to enterprise customers, partners, & industry analysts
2016 — 2018
2016 — 2018
San Francisco Bay Area
• Confidential Apple project
2010 — 2016
2010 — 2016
San Francisco Bay Area
• Responsible for the product vision, driving strategy, roadmap, and user experience design for a high-growth global startup, including building and managing a team of over 90 people
• Built a B2B / B2C SaaS product platform from concept to launch, maximizing minimal resources and budget, resulting in 200k+ users and $19MM+ in revenue
• Led hands-on a product team of product managers, UX designers, engineers, quality managers, subject matter experts in the Agile development process of product features and apps to develop a $15MM+ product ecosystem
• Established an engagement program to build customer and stakeholder alignment, increase key growth revenue metrics by 20% YoY.
• Drove and inspired a culture of innovation and collaboration across the company; awarded 6 key technology patents in artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and advanced machine learning
• Developed mobile products & strategies for Salesforce sales enablement & Dreamforce initiatives
• Partnered on interactive mobile solutions for Apple and Amazon to advance technology standards as well as extending the Star Wars franchise with Lucasfilm to mobile
• Regularly assessed product performance and created strategies to achieve and exceed measurable business goals
Education
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien