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Product Design Manager
Resumé
Experienced design professional excelling in building delightful user experiences for a broad audience. With particular skills within complex interaction design and a with natural eye for visual aesthetics; I continually build on my competencies within leadership, design systems, evaluation, feedback and more. I am currently expanding my competencies within strategic leadership and people management, by taking on a roles as Design Manager.
In a world of complexity, I value, admire and relentlessly push for simplicity in design and beyond. That is my guiding principle.
Rambøll Management Consulting
Product Design Manager
2021 - Present
Managing product designers across five cross-functional product teams
Supporting the personal and professional development of designers; including day-to-day people management
Facilitating talent acquisition and retention
Building and maintaining an internal community of practice for design, with regular meetups and resources
Building career paths for designers in a historically consulting- and tech-focused organisation
Working as lead designer on complex or high impact design initiatives
Building a design system to empower product teams and support designers in their work
Working on visionary design projects to support senior management when setting the strategic direction for our product portfolios
Acting as the connecting link between the design organisation and senior management
Rambøll Management Consulting
Senior Product Designer
2018 - 2021
Working closely with several product teams to create outstanding user experiences for a broad variety of user groups and settings.
Working as Lead Designer for one of our expanding product families, Xact, including the products SurveyXact and PeopleXact.
Iteratively building solutions in an agile environment; balancing desirability, feasibility and viability.
Creating deliverables for product teams (user flows, wireframes, hi-fi mockups, interactive prototypes etc.) that solve real user problems through the user experience.
Incorporating insights from UX research into design decisions to fulfill user and business needs; while continuously leveraging and building skills within product discovery.
Working on a broad palette of products including B2B and complex enterprise products, smaller scale custom solutions and intrapreneurial ventures, feature-packed data collection and reporting tools, products used in the public sector both nationally and internationally to heighten wellbeing, learning and development…and more.
Building and scaling the design team from 0 to 4 product designers (so far) in close collaboration with management.
Playing a key role in the creation and conceptualization of new products and initiatives.
Owning the design vision, strategy and principles, including guidelines on the adoption of Google Material Design across the product portfolio.
Providing guidance on the implementation of cross-product design strategy, vision and principles.
Driving the adoption and implementation of new tools and practices in the design team and across product teams.
Initiating and driving the creation of the Rambo Design System, currently in use across our three primary product teams
Rambøll Management Consulting
Product Designer
2017 - 2018
Taking the opportunity to enter the field of product design; becoming a one-stop shop for design tasks in the department.
Being responsible for tasks related to interaction design, interface design, visual- and graphic design, as well as the overall user experience, as it relates, primarily, to the digital products developed and maintained within Stakeholder Intelligence: SurveyXact, Hjernen&Hjertet and various custom solutions.
Rambøll Management Consulting
Project Manager | Systems Consultant
2015 - 2016
Working with data collection and -analysis, data visualization and report generation in SurveyXact and Rambøll Results for a variety of private and public sector clients. Participating in product- and concept development as part of the team behind Hjernen&Hjertet.
Rambøll Management Consulting
Project Assistant
2013 - 2015 (part-time)
Working with data collection and -analysis, data visualization and report generation in SurveyXact and Rambøll Results for a variety of private and public sector clients.
A.P. Møller - Maersk
M.I.S.E. Finance Trainee
2007 - 2008
Worked in Business Process Ownership in Center Finance, focusing on process design and -support for financial functions in Maersk Line and Maersk Logistics worldwide.
Education
2013 - 2015
Master of Science (MSc), International Economic Consulting
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
The program provided me with the theoretical knowledge required for applied economic analyses; relevant quantitative and empirical methods suitable for sectoral studies, policy-impact analyses and forecasting; the training and concepts required for the implementation of national and international project consulting and, last but not least, introduced me to an exiting international environment.
2011 - 2013
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Management, 3.76
Clemson University, SC, USA
General Management major with an emphasis on International and Operations Management. Achieved as part of an international double degree program with time spent at Clemson University (SC, USA), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), and my home university in Aarhus (Denmark). Made it to the Dean's List in the Fall and the President's List in the Spring Semester.
2009 - 2013
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Economics and Business Administration
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
General Economics and Business Administration bachelor with a specialization in International Management. The program focused on learning to identify, understand, analyze and solve problems within international business areas in multinational and international corporations.
