Wolfgang Bremer

Angestellt, Vice President, Head of Design | Customer Experience, Design and Research, Elli - A Brand of the Volkswagen Group

Berlin, Deutschland

Über mich

VP Design · Design Leader · International Public Speaker · Previously Design Executive at Fortune 500 Companies and Billion Dollar Startups

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Leading Design Teams
Creative Direction
Visual Design
User Interface Design
User Experience Design
Interaction Design
User-Centered Design
Product Design
Service Design
Program Management
Project Management
Agency Management
Product Management

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Wolfgang Bremer

  • Bis heute 1 Jahr und 2 Monate, seit März 2023

    Vice President, Head of Design | Customer Experience, Design and Research

    Elli - A Brand of the Volkswagen Group

    Heading Elli’s experience design org - including research, product design (UX and UI), hardware design, brand design, graphic design, and writing - and enabling access to e-mobility, charging and sustainable energy solutions for all. Driving Elli’s transformation to be an experience-led company and moving product development forward by aligning stakeholders around holistic customer journeys. Responsible for the design vision and experience strategy of the products and services ecosystem, ... And more...

  • Bis heute 3 Jahre und 4 Monate, seit Jan. 2021

    Co-Founder

    Stealth

    • Building Stealth → www.stealth.li • Stealth is the global startup community. Discuss ideas, find co-founders, get startup resources, connect with freelancers, and more… Join now! It’s free.

  • Bis heute 6 Jahre und 4 Monate, seit 2018

    International Public Speaker

    Wolfgang Bremer - Consulting

    • Wolfgang speaks about design, leadership, team development and more. You can invite Wolfgang to speak. Visit bremer.co/speaking for details. Wolfgang’s past speaking appearances include: • Conference Talk "Everybody is a Designer. Deal with it." - November 20, 2019 at the UXSEA Summit 2019 in Singapore • Design Vancouver | A Panel Discussion On Digital Design - May 24, 2018 at BrainStation in Vancouver, BC • Designing The Future We Desire - March 15, 2018 at RED Academy in Vancouver, BC

  • Bis heute 26 Jahre und 4 Monate, seit Jan. 1998

    Head of Design, Design Advisor & UX Consultant (Freelance)

    Wolfgang Bremer - Consulting

    (Berlin, Germany) • Hands-on design leader for Fortune 500 companies and billion dollar startups, like Nokia, SAP, etc. • Giving design direction for B2B and B2C products for global enterprises and startups. • Establishing and positioning design as a key area, alongside product, development and other teams. • Making design teams successful through honest and human team management. • Mentoring and coaching design leaders, designers and non-designers. • Not sure what you need? Let’s chat!

  • 11 Monate, Mai 2022 - März 2023

    Vice President (ad interim), Head of Design

    Elli - A Brand of the Volkswagen Group
  • 8 Monate, Okt. 2021 - Mai 2022

    Head of Design

    Elli - A Brand of the Volkswagen Group
  • 10 Jahre, Jan. 2011 - Dez. 2020

    Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer

    Founder2be

    (Berlin, Germany) • Co-founding the largest truly global online service for finding co-founders with 100,000+ users. • Heading all things design. • Jointly responsible for product development. • Leading social media marketing.

  • 3 Jahre und 4 Monate, Jan. 2017 - Apr. 2020

    Director of Design

    SAP

    (Vancouver, BC, Canada) • Heading the largest UX design team of the analytics org with 18 people • Key contact for communication & stakeholder management between org’s SVP and VPs • Implementing new design process for better overview of global UX workload & improved accountability • Introducing prototyping tools & establishing research as key part of the design process • Instigating global design operations for the analytics design org • Overseeing creation of design system for improved UX work

  • 7 Monate, Juli 2016 - Jan. 2017

    Principal UX & Visual Designer

    autoTRADER.ca

    (Vancouver, BC, Canada) • Creating new design language for Canada’s leading car classifieds site with 5.5 million unique visitors per month • Heading design for Consumer, Non Passenger Vehicles and Dealer Inventory teams across desktop and mobile • Improving NPS of consumer sales process from 22 to 56 within 6 months through complete UX and UI redesign • Establishing tone of voice as key part of the user experience • Hands-on UX & visual design from concepts, through prototypes, to final visual designs

  • 1 Jahr und 2 Monate, Nov. 2014 - Dez. 2015

    Vice President, Global Head of Design

    Market Logic Software AG

    (Berlin, DE) • Directly reporting to the CEO. • Heading the design for SaaS application used by clients such as Coca-Cola, Sony, and Unilever, among others. • Leading product management for key parts of flagship marketing information system software MLS 2.0. • Establishing design as a key strategic component throughout the company. • Leading the design for company rebranding, which results in new logo, website, print materials, etc.

  • 7 Monate, März 2014 - Sep. 2014

    Sr. UX Project Manager

    Nokia

    (Berlin, DE) • Heading the design of the Web Project Office for desktop and mobile. • Leading UX program and project management for large scale web-projects for B2B & B2C. • Art directing and aligning 20+ projects run by teams in Germany and the US. • Providing creative direction to external agencies. • Stakeholder management for alignment between design, brand, and marketing.

  • 2 Jahre und 11 Monate, Apr. 2011 - Feb. 2014

    Senior Visual & UX Designer

    Nokia

    (Berlin, DE) • Heading the design for Nokia Prime Place, the B2C & B2B service, bringing places to millions of Nokia Maps users • 1 of the 2 responsible Visual Designers for Nokia Maps, which is used in 190+ countries • Design Lead for co-branded Nokia/Microsoft business portal • Creating UX & visual designs for AdConnector, Windows Phone ads, and more from first concepts, over mockups/prototypes, to final visual designs • Managing what goes into user-, A/B-testing and acting upon results

  • 1 Jahr und 3 Monate, März 2012 - Mai 2013

    Investor

    TangaReef

    • Investor in TangaReef, which provides online booking for scuba divers and dive centers worldwide.

  • 1 Jahr und 9 Monate, Mai 2009 - Jan. 2011

    Director, Global Head of Design & User Experience

    Strands

    (Madrid, Zaragoza, ES, Corvallis, US) • Directly reporting to the CEO • Heading the design for 2 of 3 business units for software used by 100.000+ people • Leading an international team of 6 people across 2 continents • Key contact point for lead communication between product management, product marketing, software development and operations • Heading Brand Design in Europe • Conception, design, development of user interfaces for mobile and desktop websites and native mobile applications

  • 1 Jahr und 2 Monate, März 2008 - Apr. 2009

    Mobile Designer

    Strands

    (Zaragoza, ES, Corvallis, US) • Directly reporting to the VP of Mobile • Design Lead for Strands' social media and music products on mobile (iPhone, Nokia, Symbian, Java, BlackBerry) • Leading complete design overhaul of mobile music software Strands Social Player, which was key in it being downloaded 2 million+ times • Conception, design and development of desktop and mobile websites and UIs • Responsible for marketing material and brand design for Strands' mobile business unit

  • 2 Jahre und 7 Monate, Aug. 2005 - Feb. 2008

    Founder & Executive Creative Director

    Mediatwister

    (Siegen, DE) • Conception, design, and development of online-, multimedia-, and print-projects in hands-on manner. • Leading brand design and development. • Responsible for product- and project-management. • Business management and business development.

  • 4 Jahre und 5 Monate, März 2001 - Juli 2005

    Designer and Developer of Print- and Non-Print Media

    Absolute Media GmbH

    (Siegen, DE) • Senior designer guiding 3 junior designers. • Conception, design, development of online-, multimedia-, print-projects. • Brand design and development. • Web-development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, ColdFusion. • Implementation of content-management-systems. • Search engine optimization.

  • 3 Jahre und 2 Monate, Jan. 1998 - Feb. 2001

    Founder & Executive Creative Director

    Loboito

    • Conception, design, and development of online-, multimedia-, and print-projects in hands-on manner.

  • 1995 - 1995

    Assistant to Creative Director and Senior Art Directors

    VDD Fotosatz & Repro GmbH

    (Siegen, DE) • Conception, design, development of print- and video-projects. • Image editing for print-projects. • Creation of print media including pre-press. • Conception of slogans and copy texts for advertising purposes.

Ausbildung von Wolfgang Bremer

  • 2001 - 2004

    Media Design for Digital- and Print-Media

    Berufskolleg Technik des Kreises Siegen-Wittgenstein

    Conception and design, media integration, communication, economics and business operations

Sprachen

  • Deutsch

    Muttersprache

  • Englisch

    Fließend

Interessen

Learning new things
Great design and delightful UX
Good advertisement
Social media
Interesting books
Traveling
Skiing
Scuba diving
Music
Enjoying the sun
Movies
Video games
HTML & CSS

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