Description

Dynamic and self-motivated professional with extensive experience in leading designfor digital products. Proven ability to translate complex business processes into intuitive,user-centric solutions. Skilled in driving product vision, managing cross-functionalteams, and creating scalable design systems. My focus is on leveraging design to increasebusiness value and quality in corporate SaaS environments.

Core Competencies & Impact

Design Leadership: Developed scalable design solutions, created north-star visionsto align teams, and supported with stakeholder management from departments suchas growth/sales, finance, GDPR, marketing.
Business Impact: Skilled at translating business needs into design, managing theevaluation of tasks based on impact vs. effort, and prioritizing tickets for productreleases to ensure strategic alignment.
User & Change Management: Designed and implemented user guidance materials,including in-app walkthroughs and release notes, to ensure smooth feature adoptionand reduce user friction.
Technical Acumen: Proficient in building custom-coded features, data dashboards, and design systems. Experienced with CRM, CMS, and SaaS platforms like SalesforceSales Cloud.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Köln (up to 50km)

Publicis Sapient
Product Design Lead, Digital Business Transformation (iDBT)
DIGITAL AND IT
May 2022 - December 2025 (3 years and 7 months)
Germany
Thriving in the iDBT Innovation Hub Team, being responsible as a Design Lead for the SAAS Ecosystem around Salesforce.
Drove system adoption and efficiency by enhancing existing functionality and reducing user friction in a mandatory Salesforce Sales Cloud + CPQ environment.
Enabled critical business processes by designing and implementing new custom-coded features from scratch, seamlessly integrating them with existing functionalities.
Accelerated product development and ensured consistency by building and managing a custom Salesforce design system library.
Shipped over 250 tickets and 70+ critical releases, owning QA, testing, and UX/UI defect resolution to ensure a high-quality product.
Mentored and led a team of 3-4 designers, fostering a culture of ownership and growth that enabled them to deliver on complex project scopes.
Supported UX research, strategic design, scop and roadmap planning, and team hiring.
User Experience Design Product design SAAS Salesforce Digital Transformation
Publicis Sapient
Senior Designer
AGRICULTURE
October 2021 - April 2022 (6 months)
Responsible for the Nestlé Account, running Starbucks and Nescafè Projects.
Led the design and development of product websites for global brands with consumer goods across multiple screens
Led the creation of detailed brand books and assets for high-stakes pitch decks.
Prepared weekly update calls with the client and presented new designs
Figma Webdesign User Experience Design Responsive Design Design System
Studio Stephie Müller
Senior UX UI and Brand Designer
September 2017 - September 2021 (4 years)
Running my own Studio, focusing on successful Collaborations with Clients, Agencies and managing Freelance & Teaching.
Provided hands on design solution, but mainly design concepts, consultancy and super vision for a wide range of companies, agencies, and studios in Germany and Switzerland, e.g. UX UI Audit for TÜV Süd as a freelancer for MING Labs, Berlin.
Taught Bachelor students in UX, UI, Visual, Brand, and Editorial Design (Print + Digital).
User Experience Design Branding Figma Konzeption SAAS