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Professional Journey

2020 - Present

Global Director of Product Design, Payments Experiences & Lower Funnel

Decathlon Digital  |  Amsterdam 

Co-leading a 100+ person multidisciplinary product organization across four international hubs, with end-to-end ownership of Product Design spanning Research, Content, and Digital Design across purchase, payments, post-purchase, and identity experiences.

Mar 2017 – Feb 2018

Product Design

& Team Lead,

Localization

Decathlon Digital  |  Amsterdam 

Led localization of Booking.com's product across 43+ languages, adapting experiences to local markets and cultural context.

 Dec 2021 – Aug 2024

Senior Product

Design Manager,

FinTech

Booking.com |  Amsterdam 

Led a distributed design and research organization of 30+ across Bangalore, London, Amsterdam, and Shanghai, setting design vision and strategy for partner and customer payments and regulatory technology across 20+ cross-functional teams supporting over $200B in transaction value.

Aug 2015 – Mar 2017

Product &

User Experience
Designer

Booking.com |  Amsterdam 

Designed property page experiences across mobile app, mobile web, and desktop. Ran 30+ experiments improving code reusability, contributing over €1M in incremental transaction value. Set up and ran Booking.com's first live user-intercept testing program.

Feb 2018 – Jun 2021

Product

Design Manager,

Payments

Booking.com  |  Amsterdam 

Owned design vision and strategy for the core payments component — effectively Booking.com's payments design system — built product-agnostically for use across every vertical (Flights, Accommodations, Cars, Attractions) and partner integration, supporting over €150B in transactions

 Mar 2013 – Jun 2015

UI/UX Designer

& Front-End

Engineer

Squad Digital  |  Nairobi 

Product, brand, and front-end design for Sub-Saharan Africa's largest digital agency at the time. Redesigned the Kenya Airways website, implementing responsive and accessibility standards. Co-led the Safaricom brand redesign and led the digital creative team for the Standard Chartered Dubai account.

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