[Your Name]

Product Design Lead

[Your City], [Your Country Code].

About

Highly accomplished Product Design Lead with extensive experience in architecting and scaling AI-augmented design practices and production-level design systems for high-traffic, data-dense platforms. Proven ability to drive end-to-end product design, from discovery to deployment, for leading sports organizations including Manchester United, Formula E, and Chelsea. Adept at cross-functional collaboration and influencing strategic direction, consistently delivering impactful user experiences and technical solutions.

Work

Leading Product Design Studio

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Product Design Lead

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Summary

Led high-altitude product design initiatives, specializing in AI-augmented design practices and scalable design systems for a diverse portfolio of high-profile sports clients including Manchester United, Formula E, and Chelsea.

Highlights

Invented and implemented an AI-augmented design practice, developing proprietary tools like Alpha (design-system component generation), Tango (brand re-skinning), and Whiskey (end-to-end operating model from research to live prototype), which were adopted company-wide and proven on live client projects.

Delivered end-to-end product design for high-traffic, data-dense platforms, including match centers, streaming products, and subscription flows, ensuring robust information architecture, seamless user journeys, and precise engineering handover.

Architected and scaled production-level design systems, including token-based models, comprehensive component libraries, and documentation, leveraging proprietary Ghost and Phantom token models for consistent brand application.

Owned discovery and research phases, notably rebuilding Formula E's information architecture into versioned YAML and conducting ranked-convergence stakeholder synthesis to establish reusable IA principles, improving structural clarity.

Fostered strong cross-functional collaboration with engineering, deploying live React prototypes with real data, costing engineering options with dev leads, and significantly reducing specification gaps during app handover.

Provided influential design direction without formal authority, guiding peer-level designers, training a client's design team on new systems over five months, and establishing brand and UX strategy for high-profile clients like Newcastle.

Languages

English

Skills

Product Design

End-to-end Product Design, Information Architecture, User Journeys, UI/UX Design, Wireframing, Prototyping, Design Handover.

Design Systems

Token-based Systems, Component Libraries, Variant Matrices, State Matrices, Documentation, Scalable Design, Ghost Token Model, Phantom Token Model.

AI & Innovation

AI-augmented Design, Alpha (Component Generation), Tango (Brand Re-skinning), Whiskey (Operating Model).

Research & Strategy

Discovery, User Research, Stakeholder Synthesis, IA Principles, Strategic Direction.

Technical Proficiency

React, YAML, Live Prototyping, Engineering Collaboration, Specification Gap Closure.

Leadership & Mentorship

Direction Setting, Client Training, Cross-functional Leadership, Mentorship.