Dilara Neutze Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

Berlin, Germany

Engaged with startups / scale ups as a fractional leader in product & design.What I can help with: · 0-1 Product Strategy & Development: Experienced in designing, leading, and launching new products, I thrive in ambiguous spaces with motivated teams. · Design leadership: With 10+ years in design and leadership across various sectors, I'm open to full-time or fractional roles to boost your product and team depending on projects and desired outcomes. Experienced in launching… Show more Engaged with startups / scale ups as a fractional leader in product & design.What I can help with: · 0-1 Product Strategy & Development: Experienced in designing, leading, and launching new products, I thrive in ambiguous spaces with motivated teams. · Design leadership: With 10+ years in design and leadership across various sectors, I'm open to full-time or fractional roles to boost your product and team depending on projects and desired outcomes. Experienced in launching products and leading large teams, I'm here to help you succeed.· Org Design & Team Growth: With a history of building, leading, and scaling global design and leadership teams from 0 to at sizes of 100+, both central and distributed across regions, I offer my expertise to help you establish a new hub or elevate your organization.· Strategic Workshops: Either product discovery, ways of working or creative brainstorming, I bring my toolbox to help teams unlock their creative potential and solve problems in different ways.· 1:1 Consultancy & Mentorship: Open for product reviews, strategic guidance, and career advice, I'm here to offer my expertise for your 1:1 consultancy needs, helping you navigate and excel in your projects and career path. You can try to book in one of my free weekly mentorship slots here to discuss further. Show less

Helping founders on design strategy, team growth and other business-critical projects.

Berlin, Germany

Support Flink leadership team with special projects.

Berlin, Germany

Leading the product design organization across Merchant Experience product pillar, which oversees the lifecycle of enterprise merchants, including onboarding, engagement, operations, and payment processes. I am currently leading a senior team of 10 people across an organization size of 100+.

Berlin, Germany

Leading product design organization of 110 people and co-lead design team as a whole at Klarna including, UX research, UX Writing, Product design and Design Ops. It was a notable career experience where I have learned a great deal about change management, organizational design and leadership at a larger scale. Key responsibilities include organizational development, design operations, career frameworks, budget and headcount allocation, professional development and leadership hiring.

Berlin, Germany

As a director at Klarna, my remit has grown into leading a larger team, started managing a team of ICs and managers. I was leading a larger design team in consumer banking, led through the organizational transition of merging with another product unit and growing 2 of my members into management roles.My remit within design operations has grown into leading global hiring process for product design, organizational development and culture, as well as playing an active role in building… Show more As a director at Klarna, my remit has grown into leading a larger team, started managing a team of ICs and managers. I was leading a larger design team in consumer banking, led through the organizational transition of merging with another product unit and growing 2 of my members into management roles.My remit within design operations has grown into leading global hiring process for product design, organizational development and culture, as well as playing an active role in building career frameworks, leadership training materials and performance management best practices. Show less

I continued to lead consumer banking design team, growth and high level design strategy in Consumer Banking at Klarna. There is not much remit change, as this was more of a level promotion due to my outsized product and organizational impact.

Berlin, Germany

In addition to leading design team in Consumer Banking unit, I am responsible for leading and developing Product Design initiatives together with an awesome colleague. We grew the design team from 40 to 85 in the first year (2020) across Stockholm and Berlin. In 2 years, we successfully recruited and integrated 30 designers in Berlin, with a 98% retention rate during my 3 years at Klarna. With that success rate, I took over global growth of the organization and grow the team to 110… Show more In addition to leading design team in Consumer Banking unit, I am responsible for leading and developing Product Design initiatives together with an awesome colleague. We grew the design team from 40 to 85 in the first year (2020) across Stockholm and Berlin. In 2 years, we successfully recruited and integrated 30 designers in Berlin, with a 98% retention rate during my 3 years at Klarna. With that success rate, I took over global growth of the organization and grow the team to 110 product designers across 7 locations, enhancing companies global talent presence. Design also became the first function at Klarna that reached 50% women representation, moved from 36%. Show less

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

I was the first designer of Consumer Banking in Klarna. Biggest highlights of my role is to build a talented design team of 5 in consumer banking and 15 in Berlin office for other units.I also designed the first version of Klarna Bank Account in Germany and Savings Account in Sweden. Launch of these products became a major milestone contributing to Klarna's market expansion and growing consumer deposits.

Berlin Area, Germany

During my time there, I lead search and discovery projects, worked closely with building foundations of Design system and, took on product management responsibilities due to increased scope of our team. My work contributed to reducing bounce rates and increasing conversion rates for mid intent travellers. I had to transition in shortly after a year due to pursing leadership opportunities which at that time not possible to find within the organization.

Berlin Area, Germany

I played a key role in designing for foodora and foodpanda products from 0 to 1 including consumer website, mobile applications and restaurant operations products, contributing to significant company milestones, such as processing 293 million orders in 2017, parent company going IPO and corporate development. Our product design became a product blueprint for other entities under Delivery Hero portfolio and expanded into 21 countries over the world.As a lead designer, I expanded the… Show more I played a key role in designing for foodora and foodpanda products from 0 to 1 including consumer website, mobile applications and restaurant operations products, contributing to significant company milestones, such as processing 293 million orders in 2017, parent company going IPO and corporate development. Our product design became a product blueprint for other entities under Delivery Hero portfolio and expanded into 21 countries over the world.As a lead designer, I expanded the design team from 2 to 8, driving recruitment, onboarding, and team development, while navigating platform integrations and acquisitions at scale across multiple brands under the company. Show less

Remote

Redesign of one of the biggest products of Music Muni Labs called "Riyaz", which is a vocal training app developed for Android.

Berlin Area, Germany

- Imparted day-to-day design leadership to share an understanding between, productdesign, business, and engineering. - Managed and mentored 2 designers across the branding and product design efforts, as well as their career growth.- Executed different projects to improve the content and commerce experience and prepared the platform for international expansion.

Greater New York City Area

Clients: Tommy Hilfiger (New York, NY), Ribbon App (San Francisco, CA), Select.com (New York, NY), Tilda.com (UK), Walkin App (Dallas,TX), Pratt Institute (New York, NY), TurkishWIN (Istanbul, TR), Natural Junkie (UK)Responsibilities include:• Assessing and defining customer needs and pain points to delivering concepts • Designing and maintaining information architecture • Creating wireframes and early stage prototypes, and detecting issues considering specifications… Show more Clients: Tommy Hilfiger (New York, NY), Ribbon App (San Francisco, CA), Select.com (New York, NY), Tilda.com (UK), Walkin App (Dallas,TX), Pratt Institute (New York, NY), TurkishWIN (Istanbul, TR), Natural Junkie (UK)Responsibilities include:• Assessing and defining customer needs and pain points to delivering concepts • Designing and maintaining information architecture • Creating wireframes and early stage prototypes, and detecting issues considering specifications. • Providing pixel perfect visual designs for software development and making sure that they are implementable. Show less

Greater New York City Area

Worked on several special projects for visual commerce integration for Tommy Hilfiger's USA Website, Microsites, Tommy Blog Redesign.- Coordinated product development lifecycle, including product ideation and definition, UX/UI design, and user research and testing. - Constantly explored opportunities to improve user experience on e-comm, editorial and homepages of Tommy Hilfiger USA website and provided recommendations to the executive teams.- Worked on responsive design… Show more Worked on several special projects for visual commerce integration for Tommy Hilfiger's USA Website, Microsites, Tommy Blog Redesign.- Coordinated product development lifecycle, including product ideation and definition, UX/UI design, and user research and testing. - Constantly explored opportunities to improve user experience on e-comm, editorial and homepages of Tommy Hilfiger USA website and provided recommendations to the executive teams.- Worked on responsive design templates for web assets, including homepage, landing page, editorial content and emails.- Managed vendor relationships for design deliverables. - Brainstormed ideas, designed visual mockups and presented solutions for Tommy’s North America website. Show less

Greater New York City Area

- Collaborate with marketing team to execute strategies in content partnerships and email acquisition initiatives.- Evaluate digital analytics tools to track campaign performances on a daily basis and communicate insights.- Analyze historic data to develop A/B testing strategies for audience growth.- Analyze performances of syndicated content across partner channels and prepare weekly reports.- Design business decks for the Marketing team and create visuals for internship team… Show more - Collaborate with marketing team to execute strategies in content partnerships and email acquisition initiatives.- Evaluate digital analytics tools to track campaign performances on a daily basis and communicate insights.- Analyze historic data to develop A/B testing strategies for audience growth.- Analyze performances of syndicated content across partner channels and prepare weekly reports.- Design business decks for the Marketing team and create visuals for internship team project. Show less

Greater New York City Area

Affluent Media Group: Food & Wine | FWx | Travel + Leisure | Departures• Manage Newsletter content calendar and social media campaigns for four lifestyle brands in Affluent Media Group. • Coordinate and analyze user traffic in social media campaigns and report strategic recommendations.

Greater New York City Area

• Worked with Marketing manager and branding strategy teams on identifying New Business clients and revenue-driving projects to for the U.S. • Sourced strategic opportunities to meet 2015 Business Development Targets. • Created content for incoming/outgoing press, designed client mailers and thought pieces that resulted in increased client engagement. • Coordinated qualitative research, analyzed branding & design trends and provided brand audits to the strategy team. • Designed… Show more • Worked with Marketing manager and branding strategy teams on identifying New Business clients and revenue-driving projects to for the U.S. • Sourced strategic opportunities to meet 2015 Business Development Targets. • Created content for incoming/outgoing press, designed client mailers and thought pieces that resulted in increased client engagement. • Coordinated qualitative research, analyzed branding & design trends and provided brand audits to the strategy team. • Designed questionnaires, conducted interviews and produced video series for client pitches. Show less

Istanbul, Turkey

Performed as a lead singer/vocalist, worked with various bands over the course of 6 years. One of my bands brought a “first place” prize in the band competition across all universities in Istanbul.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Planned & managed a 360 Marketing Campaign for Unilever Dry Desserts to establish and maintain category presence in the Turkish market. • Designed the layout of Market tracking data for the entire Unilever Dry Dessert category, crafted data sets with a variety of channel distributions, and finalized insights report to plan next step marketing strategies.

Istanbul, Turkey

Executed and managed complete label design & operations process for export of two local Personal Care Brands to the Middle Eastern market. Finalized the design refinements of the product portfolio that includes 40+ SKUs for foreign markets for the next year’s launch

İstanbul, Türkiye

• Filtered and analyzed a complex data sheet from the European Union Healthcare Market research, prepared Insight & Analysis report for next year’s Marketing & Sales plans.

Master Of Professional Studies, Design Management, 3.76

Design Management (DM) Graduate Program was designed to develop creative leaders of the new century. It provides creative professionals.

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering, Cum Laude (3.18 / 4.00)

Activities and Societies: Boğaziçi University Women in Business Project Group, Founding Member (2013 - ) Boğaziçi University Music Club.

International University Exchange Program, Chemical And Materials Engineering

Activities and Societies: U of A international Gathering University Exchange Program Courses taken: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics.

Maths & Science, 5.00/5.00

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemical Engineering, 3.18 / 4.00

Activities and Societies: Singer in University Band (Won 1st place in City-wide Competition in 2010), Singer in Rock Choir, Co-founder.