David Mitchell is a Product Design Lead at Sky. Colleagues describe them as "I worked with David for many years, and I loved it. David combines an incredible eye for detail ("Alex, this border is too thick", "Alex, are you sure on the alignment of these buttons?"), with a hugely approachable and friendly personality and this big-picture mentality, which allows him to seamlessly go from discussing specific design implementation with an engineer, to absorbing feedback from customers, to presenting a business-changing idea to the execs. He always brought a strong sense of pragmatism when we were implementing his designs, which was critical to the way we worked. Never was he unwilling to discuss the realities of implementation, but he maintained his vision for our products at all times. This mentality resulted in a group of engineers that were able to discuss and challenge David, but also took his eye for quality to heart - and meant that we created some wonderful looking products together. Latterly, at Bullhorn, I saw David's leadership prowess from afar; working closely with his reports across multiple products, I saw David's drive for consistency and correctness through the way he empowered his team to do their best work, but he was always on hand for a chat, with his wealth of design and product expertise to help." and "David is an amazing design leader who has experience in many areas of design. He has a great sense of creating a vision and working towards goals, and is not afraid to take a hands on approach. We first met during our time at Bullhorn when we were representing the Europe side of the UX team. Not only did we have frequent feedback sessions that helped me grow as a designer, but also did we have informal calls that created a level of friendship and trust. After our time at Bullhorn, we later rejoined forces at Castor where he was leading a team of other talented designers and researchers. From the time he joined this company he helped expand the team to almost three times its original size, and provided each contributor with feedback and support to get the best out of them. David is a calm and inspiring design leader with a good sprinkle of humour to top it off, and I would highly recommend him to any company looking for a design leader."