Senior Product & Design Lead

This candidate is a seasoned Product Lead and Design Manager with extensive experience leading global product initiatives, digital transformations, and system overhauls. He excels in environments where organisations need to rebuild technology from scratch or require strategic senior leadership to modernise existing systems.

They bring a background spanning financial services, global consumer goods, large-scale tech platforms, and professional services, with a strong focus on AI-driven product strategy, UX/UI, and enterprise-scale product development. 

Key Experience:

• Global Marketing & Media Network (Present): Leading global product and design initiatives, focusing on next-generation AI-driven product development.
• Global Consumer Goods Brand (Present): Driving AI-focused product strategy and design leadership for internal systems used at scale.
• Global Social Technology Company (Contract, 2023–2024): Senior Product Lead, specialising in user validation, research, and AI innovation.
• Financial Services Provider (2022–2023): Senior Product Owner & Head of Design, overseeing UX/UI and product development across digital finance platforms.
• IoT & Workplace Analytics Company (2021–2022): Product Development Lead, delivering smart building and air-quality monitoring solutions.
• Global Marketing & Transformation Consultancy (2019–2021): UX Lead & Digital Transformation Consultant, delivering enterprise transformation programmes.
• Professional Services & Streaming Media (2017–2019): UX/UI and product consultancy roles, contributing to the build of large-scale digital platforms.

Notable Projects:

• AI Product System for a Global Consumer Brand: Product Owner for a state-of-the-art AI platform supporting campaign creation and research.
• Workplace Monitoring Solution for a Global Investment Bank: Discovery, design, and build of an interface for monitoring global building usage and occupancy.
• Enterprise Enablement Hub for a Global Pharma Business: Led UX and design for an internal platform used across international operations.
• Smart Building Analytics for a Major Media Company: Designed a system integrating air quality, footfall, and meeting room capacity into a single monitoring tool.

Skills & Tools:

• Product Strategy, Ownership & Management
• UX/UI Design, Prototyping & User Research
• Stakeholder & C-Suite Engagement
• AI-driven Product Development
• Tools: Figma, Sketch, InVision, Axure, Adobe CC, AutoCAD, Blender
• Technical: CSS, Swift, Python, Java

I was so impressed with this candidate. They are an innovative and commercially minded Product Lead who thrives on building products and systems from the ground up or leading the transformation of legacy technology. With deep experience managing senior stakeholders and guiding multidisciplinary teams, he is ideally positioned to help organisations deliver future-ready digital products.