Johanna Jagow

Senior UX Researcher & UX Consultant

Johanna Jagow
Barcelona, Spain

Experience

Mar 2024 - Present
1 year 3 months
Barcelona, Spain
Remote

Freelance Strategic UX Researcher & UX Advisor

Amadeus

  • Working with teams across Airline Solutions to create digital products that solve user needs and improve the bottom lines of some of the biggest airlines worldwide
  • Strategic planning, execution, and communication of research initiatives with diverse user profiles
  • Advising on and implementing UXR and ReOps best practices
  • Coaching PMs and Designers to apply a UX mindset and expand their methods and skill set
Oct 2023 - Jan 2024
4 months

Senior ResearchOps Advisor

BestSecret GmbH

  • Defined the strategy and implemented a company-wide insights repository
  • Translated requirements into a customised solution
  • Delivered workshops and consulting sessions
Jul 2023 - Present
1 year 11 months
Barcelona, Spain
Remote

Senior UX Researcher & UX Advisor

Self-employed

  • Helping teams develop and hone their UX strategy, run effective research, optimise their ResearchOps, and empower people who do research to shine
  • UX consultation, UX workshops, hands-on UX research, UX management, CRO & personalisation
  • I've worked with companies such as eBay, Gartner, Amadeus, BestSecret, Great Question, and many more
Jul 2021 - Jun 2023
2 years

EMEA Lead ResearchOps Partner

EnjoyHQ (acquired by UserZoom)

  • Consulted designers, researchers, and managers on successfully implementing insights repositories
  • Expert sessions and workshops on taxonomy building, insights management, data analysis, data auditing, and centralisation
  • Coached colleagues to become ResOps experts
Jul 2021 - Jun 2023
2 years

UX Research Partner

UserZoom

  • DACH Lead for educating and consulting teams of up to 50 on UX research (UXR) methodologies and UXR best practices, generating quality insights and communicating them effectively to create change
  • Planned and led UXR and UX strategy workshops
  • Led change management programmes on scaling UXR, UX benchmarking, and designing influence
  • Ran more than 240 sessions with researchers, designers, product managers and more roles to develop their UXR skills and mature their UX practice
  • Building UXR capabilities at high profile companies like Lego, Zalando, Reckitt, Bupa, Henkel, Tesco, Mercedes, Nestlé, VW, Deutsche Bank and many more
  • Demonstrating thought leadership by speaking at UX conferences, onsite events like fireside chats, UXR webinars, and expert interviews
  • Valued team player, receiving positive feedback from account managers about impact on customers
Apr 2021 - Dec 2023
2 years 9 months

Co-Founder & UX Consultant

Jagow Speicher

  • UX management and UX strategy consulting
  • Advising on all things UX, test & learn culture, applied behavioural psychology, and more
  • Running usability audits and heuristic evaluations
Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
1 year 10 months
On-site

Jr. User Experience Manager

C&A

  • Led qual + quant user research (ran more than 150 studies) and onsite customer feedback
  • Ran UX workshops to socialise and embed UXR
  • Involved in budget planning and hiring processes
  • Designed and implemented a Customer Feedback Strategy from scratch
  • Achieved cross-divisional changes like the abolition of a min. order value
  • Growing weekly analysed feedback from 0 to 5,000
  • Grew the number of user studies run at C&A by 345% YoY

Summary

I am a freelance UX advisor with deep expertise in UX research, UX management, CRO and ResearchOps. I empower teams to generate valuable insights to drive the creation of digital products that matter.

Languages

English
Native
German
Native
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Oct 2018 - Jun 2019

Hochschule Niederrhein

Master of Science · E-Business · Germany · 1,9

Oct 2013 - Jun 2016

Hochschule Niederrhein

Bachelor of Science · Textile & Clothing Management · Germany · 2,0

Certifications & licenses

Designing Influence

Nielsen Norman Group

ResearchOps: Operationalizing and Socializing User Research

Nielsen Norman Group