I’m a product designer, and I lead designers and teams to build great products.
I’ve designed digital products used by millions of people at Wise, Farewill, the Guardian, and the agencies Idean and DigitasLBi.
Work experience
Design Lead
ustwo
2023 to 2024
Working with a fast growing payments scale-up on a project to increase merchant adoption of its payment features.
Leading design for a core product team.
Design Lead
Wise
2022 to 2023
Worked on Wise's mission to make receiving payments around the world faster and more convenient, by developing new card payments and invoicing solutions.
Led design for two product teams in the Receive squad, where I supported three designers and a researcher.
Staff Product Designer
Farewill
2021 to 2022
Worked on evolving Farewill’s funeral proposition, growing this crucial part of the organisation and changing the way people deal with death.
Led design for two funeral teams, one focused on customer acquisition and another on customer experience, where I managed three designers.
Lead Product Designer
Idean
2018 to 2021
Led several projects for design studio Idean (formally Adaptive Lab, now frog), with established and growing companies such as Standard Life, Barclays, Qubit, Sodexo and Carta to take new ideas from opportunities to delivered products and services in the market.
Development Manager for three designers.
Senior User Experience Designer
The Guardian
2012 to 2017
Worked on a pivotal redesign of the Guardian’s native applications, developed new features for the newspaper website, designed new editorial tools for the newsroom, and improved the Guardian’s advertising and commercial experience.
Led design on the team that kickstarted ‘Contributions’, a new way for Guardian readers to support the newspaper through donations, which still stands as my most meaningful piece of work in my career so far.
Development Manager for two designers.
Associate User Experience Designer
DigitasLBi
2009 to 2012
Joined as a graduate and worked on several projects with established companies such as Electrolux, BT, Tesco, Lloyds TSB, E.ON and Foot Locker, designing for and optimising their digital customer platforms.