Roland Sailer

UX Lead

Roland Sailer
Zürich, Schweiz

Erfahrungen

Sept. 2020 - Bis heute
4 Jahren 7 Monaten

Independent Strategic Consultant

Uxyde / RS72-Roland Sailer

CX and UX work as an independent strategic consultant.

  • Mandates for Sennheiser, Notation Creative, Julius Baer (on behalf of IBM), Avobis, Roche Diagnostics and other companies
Sept. 2018 - Aug. 2020
2 Jahren

CXO

Evooq SA

Evooq is a Swiss fintech founded in May, 2018

In my two years, Evooq grew to 150 people and released initial versions of 6 of the total 8 products in the portfolio to clients.

  • As employee 7, set-up and recruit UX team of 5
  • Responsible for the CX of the company and the UX of 8 programs in the portfolio, 7 of which were built from scratch
  • Topics covered: Multi-Issuer-Platform for structured products, product-lifecycle-management, client-lifecycle-management (covering KYC/regulatory compliance, client wealth, wealth planning as well as portfolio and transaction management), Actionable Content Platform, Campaign Manager, Product Capture, Solver/Recommender, AMC platform, EAM plattform
  • Define and establish the Evooq Design System and Design Ops
  • Establish UX tools, processes and methods to fit with Evooq's stage of organizational maturity and available resources
  • Sell stakeholders and future clients to the vision of the products in development
  • Establish channels and formats that contribute to an empowering culture of the company
Feb. 2016 - Aug. 2018
2 Jahren 7 Monaten

Consulting Director, Head of CX

Zühlke Engineering AG

  • Establish the CX practice at Zühlke, recruit initial CX team of 5
  • Define activities and offerings, identify markets that leverage Zühlke's specific strengths in the field of experience innovation
  • Lead strategic projects and initiatives with a focus on CX, UX and innovation for clients ranging from big banks to startups - e.g. [link]
  • Evangelize and establish customer experience thinking and doing inside the company, make customer experience a default element of every client engagement
Jan. 2008 - Nov. 2015
7 Jahren 11 Monaten

Partner

NOSE AG

  • Partner, member of management & board
  • Head of business unit with up to 23 direct reports, responsible for UX and industrial design
  • Executive consultant for UX strategies and brand strategies
  • Developing, designing and implementing strategies, visions and solutions for unique customer experiences resulting in award-winning products and communication across all touchpoints of the customer journey
  • Specializing in UX/CX methods and workflows and effective ways of getting things done (Agile, UCD)
  • Driving organizational development (processes, tools)
Juni 2000 - Jan. 2008
7 Jahren 8 Monaten

Design Manager, Senior Interaction Designer

NOSE AG

  • Lead creative and UX designer for digital projects (web, applications, product interfaces)
  • Digital consultant for branding clients
  • Responsible for projects large and small in the fields of branding, web design, interaction design and product design
  • Introducing user centered design methodologies and tools
  • Formalized and implemented iterative development process based on RUP (rational unified process)
Aug. 1996 - Juni 2000
3 Jahren 11 Monaten
Nürnberg, Deutschland

Founding Partner

neustart corporate medialab

  • Founder and partner of a startup focusing on digital media and interaction design
  • Concept, design and programming of user interfaces for award-winning (IF, Red-Dot) digital media, trade shows, websites, multimedia CD-ROMs
  • Created user experiences for mobile phones and other telephony applications
  • Customers included Siemens AG, Munich and Erlangen, Texas Instruments Europe and Arcor

Zusammenfassung

Helped improve the lives of millions, growing UX in organizations through a unique blend of creative strategic thinking and quality-focused execution. Focus on early stage project/team ramp-up and excellence in DesignOps/Agile. Very motivating and fun. Compulsory and committed.

Sprachen

Deutsch
Muttersprache
Englisch
Verhandlungssicher
Französisch
Grundkenntnisse
Tagalog
Grundkenntnisse

Ausbildung

Okt. 1993 - Juni 1997

HTW Dresden (University of Applied Science)

Diplom · Industrial Design · Dresden, Deutschland

Okt. 1982 - Juni 1991

Katholisches Freies Gymnasium St. Konrad

Abitur · Ravensburg, Deutschland

Zertifikate & Bescheinigungen

CPUX-F Certification

Zühlke

Certified Scrum Master

Extreme Manufacturing Yellow Belt