Jan Schmidt-Lange - 3D Product Advisor

Jan is based in Munich, Germany and prefers 100% remote projects.

Jan speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced) .

Jan's most recent position is 3D Product Advisor at AGCO .

Jan is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

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Munich, Germany

Experience

Conducted interviews with farmers worldwide and involved real customers in co-creation workshops to ideate how to best support farmers when buying agricultural machinery.
Evaluated potential solution approaches in focus groups, created wireframes and visual mockups, iteratively tested prototypes with farmers, and refined the solution to best meet their needs.
Delivered the award-winning 3D Product Advisor, a highly interactive guided-selling configurator that leads farmers step by step through the decision-making process, automatically visualizing machinery in 3D and ready to order.

Putting farmers first, I established UX capabilities driving highly customer-centric product discovery and development, integrating around a cohesive strategy and establishing a focused and highly user-centric product development approach across workstreams.
As UX Lead, I grew a powerful UX department of 25 designers and researchers within a year, driving efficient development and delivering a seamless, integrated digital experience for customers from product discovery through after-sales support.
The unified digital product and journey vision aligned teams around a cohesive strategy to deliver a seamless, integrated digital experience across the entire customer lifecycle, from product discovery to after-sales support.

Built and managed a team of 10 UX, UI, Service Designers, and User Researchers in Germany and Portugal.
Embedded the UX team into project workflows to establish customer-centric product development methodologies and supported team members in their application.
Developed digital fleet management solutions via an industry-leading subscription model (rio.cloud) and created value-adding digital services, including a smartphone app for drivers’ daily tasks and a comprehensive truck configurator for customers and sales representatives.

Conducted interviews with longtime Porsche customers and digital-native prospects worldwide to gather user insights and expectations.
Led the development of wireframes and visual mockups for Taycan’s in-car HMI, combining clear borrowings from classic Porsche interior design with a state-of-the-art digital interaction experience.
Reduced traditional hardware controls in favor of intelligent voice control, touch and swipe gestures with haptic feedback, ensuring an intuitive, brand-compliant, and fully seamless interaction across six digital displays.

Led a team of 18 UX and UI designers and user researchers across four product verticals and three locations.
Collaboratively developed a holistic UX strategy and unified design standards suitable for all teams.
Established a user-centric, mobile-first development approach that ensured a seamless digital experience across desktop, mobile web, and native apps, eliminated silos, and aligned product verticals.