Ellen Conant Email & Phone Number

User Experience Strategy and Design management professional with 20+ years of experience in a range of complex UX projects. Adept at linking business and design thinking techniques to produce innovative strategies. Background combines both a Haas MBA and a Yale MFA in design. Focused on human-centered solutions founded on solid user needs analysis. Effective team leader, meeting facilitator, and member of cross-functional leadership teams. Focus on end to end user experience leadership from project definition to implementation. Experience building out a UX and Product Design team and creating UX process tools for team alignment.Specialties: UX and Design management, product design strategy, customer experience, brand strategy, user research, mentoring and design thinking.Extra-credit professional interests: Coached Haas business students to learn the design/business innovation process as part of their core course requirements. Past experience also includes creating and teaching college level design courses to Parsons students.

Listed skills include Interactive Advertising, Strategy, Analysis, Leadership, and 15 others.

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  Mobile Product Design, Ux Product Design Manager At Pacific Gas &Electric

  Pacific Gas & Electric / Pg&E

  Oct 2019 - Present - San Francisco Bay Area

  Manage and direct a team of UX researchers and UI designers invested in making mobile applications for PG&E's field crews so they can get work done more safely and accurately. Model for innovation throughout the company. Involved in all aspects of design leadership for a large enterprise.