Philip Hillman

Head of Design

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland25 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

25 years of experience in UX leadership.
Expert in digital transformation across diverse sectors.
Proven track record in building high-performing design teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a UX leader with extensive experience in Fintech and B2C digital transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

User ExperienceUser-centered DesignUx StrategyDesignUx ResearchUx Program ManagementUx DesignInteraction DesignTeam LeadershipProduct ManagementService DesignDesign LeadershipUser ResearchCloud-based ApplicationsUx LeadershipDesign StandardsData AnalyticsCollaborationFinancial Markets

Other Skills

A/B TestingAccessibilityAgileAgile MethodologiesBPMNCard SortingCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Cross-Organization CollaborationCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer ExperienceDesign StrategyDesign ThinkingDigital StrategyDigital TransformationE-commerce

About

Philip leads UX teams within large global companies spanning diverse sectors like technology, retail, and consulting, including Accenture, Google, Amazon, and Tesco. With 25 years of experience, he strategically fosters digital transformation across industries. He excels in building high-performing multidisciplinary design functions that deliver innovative experiences with measurable impact on business goals.

Experience

Google

UX Manager

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Zurich, Switzerland

User ExperienceUser-centered Design

Eth zürich

Guest Lecturer, Chair of Cognitive Science

Sep 2021 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Zurich, Switzerland

Credit suisse

3 roles

Head of UX Strategy & Design

Apr 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Zurich, Switzerland

UX StrategyDesign

Head of UX Research & Design

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs · Zurich, Switzerland

UX ResearchDesign

UX Program Manager

Sep 2017 – Apr 2018 · 7 mos · Zurich, Switzerland

UX Program Management

Tesco plc

UX Design Lead & Manager

Oct 2016 – Sep 2017 · 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading and managing the design of interactions, where Tesco's global customers manage a purchase, before, during, and after, the receipt of goods.

UX DesignInteraction Design

Amazon

Snr. UX Design Lead & Manager

Jan 2016 – Sep 2016 · 8 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Led and managed a distributed team based in Seattle WA and London, comprising of UX Research and Design capabilities, focusing on creating scalable and personalised browse and discovery customer experiences across all global channels.

UX DesignTeam Leadership

Accenture

Product Manager

Feb 2015 – Dec 2015 · 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Provided Product Management and Service Design within the highly ambitious Government Digital Service (GDS) transformation programme within the HMRC Digital Delivery Centre in Newcastle, one of the largest digital transformation programmes in the UK, which aims to make public services simpler, clearer and faster for users, and more efficient for government.

Product ManagementService Design

Cognizant technology solutions

UX Lead

Oct 2014 – Dec 2014 · 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Provided Design Leadership, User Research and Interaction Design consultancy for Cognizant's global financial sector client for a B2B eCommerce portal programme.

Design LeadershipUser Research

Alfresco

Lead UX Architect

Feb 2014 – Oct 2014 · 8 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Led a design team within a larger globally distributed product delivery team, which formed the companies research and development programme tasked with creating a new, bleeding edge, cloud based, case management Smart Process Application (SPAs), and it’s development and deployment platform.

UX DesignCloud-based Applications

Royal bank of scotland

UX Architect, Markets & International Banking

Aug 2013 – Feb 2014 · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Provided UX leadership within an investment banking single dealer platform (SDP) programme whereby a large number of existing back and front office legacy trading and eCommerce applications were to be reimagined under the guidance of a single set of standards and guidelines within a new single HTML 5 framework.

UX LeadershipDesign Standards

5one

Lead UX Architect

Feb 2013 – Jul 2013 · 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Responsible for the redesign of a data rich CRM analytics and insight platform used to report on shoppers behavior within supermarkets and utilised by clients such as, Aral, BP, CocaCola, DIAGEO, Ocado and Redbull.

UX LeadershipDesign

Workshare

Snr. UX Designer

Oct 2012 – Feb 2013 · 4 mos · London

Designing enterprise document sharing and collaboration applications and platforms for desktop, tablet, mobile and cloud, predominantly for the legal and financial markets.

UX DesignData Analytics

Lab49

Snr. UX Architect

Jul 2012 – Oct 2012 · 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Working for and on behalf of many of the worlds largest investment banks, designing data rich software platforms for the global financial markets with daily transactions in excess of 3 trillion USD.

UX DesignCollaboration