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Vienna, Austria

Vienna, Austria

Scope:Leading a User Experience team of 7 professionals on the B2C side to support refurbed's mission of making consumption sustainable.Responsibilities:● Lead and manage a team of UX designers, UX copywriter and UX engineer, providing mentorship, guidance and direction to ensure high-quality design outcomes and fostering their professional growth and career development.● Collaborate closely with UX & PM team, to elevate product discovery and validation processes in terms of quality and speed.● Support the Head of Product in user-centered Product Strategy creation.● Champion the user experience, promoting a customer-focused design culture with methodical iterations to ensure we convert our visitors into happy and loyal customers.

Vienna, Austria

Scope:Headed Experience Design org of 12 professionals for adidas Running and adidas Training apps to increase customer lifetime value for 180m+ registered members.Wins:● Redefined and role-modeled our culture by leading the creation of our sharable team charter.● Fostered a unified strategic vision by leading multiple product positioning and strategy workshops.● Enhanced team performance and ensured operational effectiveness by restructuring the team, coaching two experts into management roles, and expanding team diversity through strategic hiring.● Resolved strategic priority conflicts at the leadership level by facilitating meetings with top and middle management resulting in key projects getting delivered in time, quality, and budget.Responsibilities:● Lead, build and develop a distributed department of experience design professionals up to the Senior Manager/Principal level while serving as a role model for the Experience Design team.● Set and articulate a compelling team vision to allow for a continuous, high-quality stream of design and research activities and outcomes.● Foster an inspiring, diverse, open team culture by hiring global design talent.● Build effective, trusting relationships with team members and (Senior) Directors or Heads in Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing and Content areas for the adidas Sports Apps.● Structure the Sports Apps Experience Design organization to empower designers and design leads to shape end-to-end user journeys in a seamless way.● Accountable for Experience Design practices, design strategy, planning and delivery of Experience Design commitments for the adidas Sports Apps.● Directly report to the VP of Product at adidas Runtastic with a dotted line to the broader adidas digital Experience Design org.

Vienna

Scope:Led a distributed team of nine experts and leaders in Design, Research, and Development. Supervised and executed Design and Research activities for €100m+ annual revenue B2C segment in eight markets.Wins:● Increased expertise and flexibility while cutting costs by internalizing A/B testing development.● Increased productivity by 15% YoY despite the pandemic by evolving processes for remote UX work.● Matured design practice as measured via team output and outcomes by establishing design principles, forming critique guidelines, and coaching designers on running basic research methods effectively.Responsibilities:● Lead, build and develop a distributed department of design, research and conversion rate optimization professionals● Hire new department members for Greentube offices in Vienna and Bratislava● Oversee or execute design and research activities providing guidance and feedback to the department's members and beyond● Shape product design and user research processes to allow for a continuous, high-quality stream of design and research activities and outcomes● Facilitate and participate in cross-functional meetings, workshops and trainings to foster and teach a user-centered design process

Austria

Scope:UX Lead for €100m+ annual revenue B2C segment in four markets. Led two UX professionals and managed a six-figure A/B testing program to increase conversion rates for online casinos.Wins:● Generated €5m+ revenue through iteratively testing registration and cashier journeys.● Aligned brand and product leaders on UX priorities and cross-market experimentation roadmap through regular competitor UX benchmarking and continuously communicating about campaign results.● Improved product outcomes by establishing an on-site lab and a centralized research budget.Responsibilities:● Lead, build and develop a team of user experience professionals● Set clear goals, prioritize work and assign tasks to the UX, A/B & Usability Testing team in alignment with the company's vision and strategy● Facilitate and participate in cross-functional meetings, workshops and trainings to foster and teach a user-centered design process● Collaborate with design, technical and business roles to understand business requirements and translate them into appropriate design and user research efforts● Oversee or execute UX design tasks and user research activities using a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods (usability testing, A/B testing, surveys, …)● Challenge, critique and contribute to current design and research projects● Lead discussions relative to the future direction of design and user experience● Planning and monitoring of the UX, A/B & Usability Testing team's budget

Austria

Scope:Optimized the user experience for two online casinos to contribute to €10m+ in monthly revenue. Increased conversion rates through cross-functional collaboration and user-centered design.Wins:● Grew A/B testing velocity 5x while improving results by reimagining and centralizing operations.● Increased registrations by 8% and payments by 13% via one of many tests I designed.● Aligned stakeholders to address long-standing, critical UX flaws by presenting user video clips.Responsibilities:● Ensuring a fluid User Experience on Desktop and Mobile by collaborating with UI Design, User Research, Frontend Development, CRM, Online Marketing, Customer Support and more.● Combining qualitative (Usability Testing) and quantitative (A/B Testing) user research to analyze the status quo and create experiments (A/B/n tests) to increase Conversion Rates for our Key Performance Indicators (evidence-based decision-making) while keeping technical constraints in mind.● Building prototypes from low-fidelity sketches on paper to high-fidelity in Photoshop or InVision.● Building and optimizing internal design processes e.g. by improving the Design hand-off to Frontend Development with Zeplin.io or introducing the Design Studio method.

Austria

Games Tester responsible for slots, card games, and occasionally, Ski Challenge.● Tested 100+ slot machines, 30+ skill games and 20+ Table Game variants to achieve excellent game quality in 15+ languages and 5+ currencies for internal casino websites and partner platforms.

Austria

Junior Consultant in the Data Warehouse sector working with Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Austria

Worked in the Public Relations department to create various designs and layouts for print. Vectorized countless logos and crests for scalable use. Supported the media team in selected PR events.Wins:● Designed 10+ PR magazines, brochures and posters to be printed in the army printing center.● Achieved promotion to Lance Corporal.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

● Completed degree in just 4 semesters by achieving advanced standing status via the entrance exam. ● 1st paper: "UX and IxD: Comparing.

High School Diploma, Information Technology

● Achieved perfect GPA and graduated with distinction ("mit ausgezeichnetem Erfolg"). ● Achieved IPMA Project Management certificate.