David Jost
Product Design Leader
Profile
- Experience working on the edge and bounds of convention in the industry.
- Ability to lead and influence by example: delivering projects at a high level of quality, ensuring collaboration and productive delivery.
- Ability to teach and set standards for a team of ICs, so their deliveries match the quality standard.
- Ability to communicate the value of work to leadership across the company.
- High degree of comfort with ambiguity, thinking from first principles to shape strategic business and architectural decisions that go beyond the bounds of the current org structure.
Competences
Vision and passion for experience designDesign leadershipEnd-to-end Design SystemsDesign thinkingFigma, FigJam, Miro, MuralHTML, CSS, Typescript / Javascript, JSXAstro, StencilJS, NodeJS, 11tyand more.
Career
Immersive
May 2024
Principal Product Designer
Leading the product design function at the company. Strategic partner for the business on product direction and vision realization.
Leading design vision and mission for the product. Setting direction for the design team and growing business capabilities. Contributing end-to-end to the product landscape. Collaboration across the business to centralize design.
Spotify
October 2022
Senior Product Designer
Building the future of developer tooling with Backstage.io. Consolidating, designing and developing the Backstage UI language, design system and processes.
Research analysis of Backstage design challenges. Facilitating change in design approach across multiple teams and plugins. Designing the UI language, building design documentation and resources. Guiding designers to align their output to a common vision & mission.
REWE Digital
June 2019
Design System lead
Role transformation to expert on design systems and team lead, closing the gap between design and dev. Custom development of internal software for maintaining design systems. Initiator and driving force behind the design system effort at REWE.
Planning, validating, proving, staffing, building and launching the design system in code and design from scratch. Facilitating design process change across design teams and business areas. Maintaining design system and processes after launch.
August 2016
Senior Product Designer
Responsibility for concept and design of the recipes, offers and start page. Agile product development using micro services in various teams.
Collaborating with user researchers in qualitative and quantitative research. Responsive UI concept and design for B2C views of the offers and recipes sites. Prototyping in code for immediate collaboration with developers.
HRS Group
January 2015
Senior UX Designer
Responsible for shipping desktop and mobile concept and design of business portals, agile software development with EMEA teams.
Collaborating with user researchers in qualitative and quantitative research. Responsive web and app concept, UI design for B2B Hotel sourcing platform. Responsive UI design for the B2C Hotel list view.
Sunzinet AG
April 2012
UX & UI Designer, Photographer
Concept, design and presentation of web projects, planning, concept and execution of photoshoots for various clients.
Clients include: Fraunhofer Institute, Creditreform, BWT, Maybach, SIG
Oevermann Networks GmbH
February 2010
UX & UI Designer
Concept, design and presentation of web projects, planning, concept and execution of photo shoots for various clients.
Clients include: Bayer, DHL, Bild-Kunst, Heidi Klum Management
encurio GmbH
August 2009
UX & UI Designer
Concept, design and presentation of web projects.
Clients include: L'Oreal, Mastercard, Toplage
Macologne
September 2008
Graphic Designer
Design and presentation of print and web marketing material and digital art projects.
Clients include City of Cologne, Remis, and Olivandenhof Cologne.
Spitzenfoto
December 2009–April 2020
Freelance photographer
My photo side-gig. Photography projects making pictures of people, places and our environment.
Places, Friends, Artists, Couples, Families, Businesses
Achievements
- Nurtured the design team at immersive back to productivity after a large redundancy process, hired a design engineer and enabled exceeding delivery of feature work and discovery work.
- Led the design system effort for Backstage at Spotify, built the foundations to grow design maturity across the tribe and align the UI language.
- Initiated, planned, built, maintained and expanded the design system team and effort at REWE Digital.
- Built and maintained the core UI library for the HRS design and frontend teams.
- Initiated, built and ran the photography department at the agencies Sunzinet and Oevermann.
Courses
Interaction Design Foundation
March 2021 Accessibility: How to design for all
Design for humans with disabilities. Graduated in top 10% of all course students.
Eightshapes
September 2020 Nathan Curtis: Operating Design Systems
Operating and managing design systems from the technical to the human side.
MobX Conference Berlin
Jul 2015 Brad Frost, Stephen Hay: Responsive Design Workflow
Approach and best practices for responsice design, taught by the creator of atomic design Brad Frost.
Education
Macologne GmbH
September 2005
Apprenticeship in Media Design
Design and presentation of print and web marketing material and digital art projects. Clients include City of Cologne, Remis and Olivandenhof Cologne.
BTG College
July 2003
Advanced technical certificate
Certified IT Assistant in system integration and software architecture