Experience

Head of Product Design

Early-stage Startup (Stealth)

Jan 2025 – Present

Jan 2025 – Present

  • Building the design foundations from scratch: product language, principles, visual system, and narrative structure.

  • Using systems thinking to balance near-term prototype validation with long-term platform architecture.

  • Introducing AI tools at each stage of the design workflow, from concepts to documentation, and reviewing AI UX patterns with the team.

  • Working with founders to shape product direction, turning user research and early testing into product decisions with each iteration.

Director of Product Design

AppsFlyer

March 2022 – March 2025

March 2022 – March 2025

  • Led 20+ product designers and researchers across 4 business units and 10+ products, managing resource allocation and positioning UX as a strategic partner to executive leadership.

  • Directed the Product Design Guild, designed the hiring process and career framework, and hired dozens of designers, including a design system lead and principal designers, mentoring them across all levels.

  • Headed design for the Product-Led Growth transformation, improving activation by 20% and opening 45+ expansion opportunities.

  • Led the definition of UX patterns for AI across customer-facing workflows and integrated them into the existing design system with product and engineering, reducing support volume by 30%.

  • Drove 85% design system adoption across product and engineering teams, and led a product design task force for UI accessibility that strengthened design system foundations and aligned Storybook with the front-end team.

  • Worked with the guild’s researcher, who set research standards for all product designers, and structured feedback cycles between design and go-to-market teams, improving iteration speed and product decisions.

Head of Product Design

Micro Focus (ex-HP)

2018 – 2022

2018 – 2022

  • Led global design studio for a complex B2B platform, establishing UX as a strategic partner across Product, Marketing, and R&D leadership.

  • Drove design system adoption across dozens of distributed teams, reaching 75% component utilization and cutting design-to-development cycle time by 35%.

  • Launched the “Everything UX” initiative to unify design foundations and build a shared design culture across a global, distributed organization.

Lead Product Designer

HP

2011 – 2017

2011–2017

  • Led the UX team for an application lifecycle management platform built for Fortune 500 companies, owning design quality across complex, workflow-heavy software.

  • Ran the design process end to end, from user research through production, balancing the technical needs of developers, QA, and product managers.

Brand and Product Designer

txtr - B2C Startup (on behalf of Fjord, part of Accenture Song)

2009 – 2010

2009 – 2010

  • Designed connected reading experiences for a cloud-based eBook platform and its companion hardware device, creating one product and brand identity for physical and digital surfaces ahead of European market entry.

Independent Multidisciplinary Designer

Germany/Austria

2003 – 2008

2003 – 2008

  • Freelanced with publishers, agencies, and brands including Vanity Fair Magazine, Wien Art Magazine, Vogt + Weizenegger, and Triad (Expo Shanghai).

Education

  • HTK Academy, Berlin | Communication Design Diploma with Distinction

  • TH Köln, University of Applied Sciences | Design International Exchange Program (KISD)

  • Ascola School, Tel Aviv | Industrial Design Diploma with Distinction

Professional Development

  • Teaching Complex Systems | 6B Academy (2026–Present)

  • AI for UX Design | Design Lab Academy (2025)

  • Building Innovative Communities | TLV Municipality Program (2024–2025)

Mentorship & Community

  • Mentor, Sapir College: Guiding B.A. students in the Technological Marketing program.

  • Mentor & Consultant, MEET & MIT Partnership: Guiding high school students through tech and entrepreneurship projects, and advising on the design curriculum.

Skills
Leadership & Strategy

Building and scaling design organizations · Hiring and mentorship · Career development frameworks · Executive stakeholder management · Design operations and governance

Building and scaling design organizations · Hiring and mentorship · Career development frameworks · Executive stakeholder management · Design operations and governance

Design Practice

Design systems at scale · Systems thinking · Multi-product ecosystems · User research and experimentation · Behavioral analytics

Design systems at scale · Systems thinking · Multi-product ecosystems · User research and experimentation · Behavioral analytics

Domain Expertise

Enterprise B2B · Complex workflows for expert users · AI-assisted product experiences · Product-Led Growth · Accessibility · Consumer (B2C) · Hardware and mobile

Enterprise B2B · Complex workflows for expert users · AI-assisted product experiences · Product-Led Growth · Accessibility · Consumer (B2C) · Hardware and mobile

Tools & Technologies

Figma, Framer, Adobe Creative Suite · AI platforms and agents across the design workflow · MCP integrations across design, research and documentation · Custom skills

Figma, Framer, Adobe Creative Suite · AI platforms and agents across the design workflow · MCP integrations across design, research and documentation · Custom skills

Languages

Hebrew (Native), English (Professional), German (Professional)

Hebrew (Native), English (Professional), German (Professional)

Awards

Two-time winner, Creative Excellence Grant – Sharett Foundation Prize

Awards

Two-time winner, Creative Excellence Grant – Sharett Foundation Prize

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