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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.

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

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

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.

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 in.