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Design & Product Leader | Ex-Google, Amazon, Credit Suisse

I'm a Design and Product Leader with over 25 years in user experience (UX) and product design and over 12 years leading the design organisations behind them.

I build design functions from the ground up. At Credit Suisse I created the bank's first dedicated, centralised, in-house UX function, growing it from zero to 17 and designing its entire operating model. I also bring operational structure and rigour to established ones, most recently leading design for a ~$15bn+ YouTube advertising product portfolio at Google.

I operate fluently from setting strategy and vision through to shipping and optimising product, with a service-design mindset and a career-long thread of harnessing AI in service of user and business goals. I excel in complex, highly regulated problem spaces, and bring an evidence-driven, research-led approach that delivers design solutions that create measurable commercial impact.

I've worked across financial services, adtech, government, e-commerce, and enterprise platforms, and I'm equally at home moving fast in a scale-up or building rigorous structure in a global enterprise.
Previously Head of UX Research & Design at Credit Suisse and Senior UX Design Lead & Manager at Amazon, with earlier roles including Tesco, Accenture and Barclays.

Learn more at www.philiphillman.com

Skills

Design Leadership

Experience Design

Product Strategy

Service Design

UX

UX Design

User Research

Open for

cofounder

fulltime

parttime

Work Experience

Tesco

2016-09 - 2017-08

Workplace
UX Design Lead & Manager
Location

London

Employement type

fulltime

Distributed across Tesco's Welwyn Garden City HQ and London digital hub, on the Customer Experience leadership team, led the Transactions and Fulfilment design squad (~5+ designers) responsible for the digital experience, primarily online but spanning in-store, across all Tesco-owned commerce and fulfilment, including grocery, Tesco Direct and Clubcard.

Amazon

2016-01 - 2016-08

Workplace
Senior UX Design Lead & Manager
Location

London

Employement type

fulltime

Based in London, working with Seattle, led the UX team (design, research, pgm, and engineering) within Amazon Creative Services, responsible for product design and innovation across Amazon's global retail websites.

Credit Suisse

2017-09 - 2021-09

Workplace
Head of UX Research & Design
Location

Zürich

Employement type

fulltime

Based in Zurich, led a group-level UX function of ~15 across research, design and writing, serving Group and all divisions globally including EMEA, APAC and the AMER.

Accenture

2015-02 - 2015-12

Workplace
Product Manager
Location

London

Employement type

freelancer

Product management and service-design leadership on HMRC's digital inheritance-tax service (GDS transformation programme), functionally led a ~14-person cross-functional squad through to public beta.

Google

2021-09 - 2026-06

Workplace
UX Manager
Location

Zürich

Employement type

fulltime

Led a globally distributed team across Zurich, New York, San Francisco and Mountain View. Responsible for design strategy through delivery on a ~$15bn+ YouTube Ads advertising product portfolio within a large, matrixed organisation. Delivered pioneering Google-AI-powered brand advertising products across the portfolio.