Julia Brand

Planned career break to travel across Europe and explore where I want to live long term. This period provided space to reflect on future priorities and reaffirmed my passion for creating thoughtful, user-centered digital products. Now looking for opportunities to contribute my product design expertise.

Head of Product Design for the BISON app and web platform. Led end-to-end UX/UI design, user research and product discovery across the full lifecycle. Drove the redesign that expanded BISON from crypto trading to a multi-asset investment platform, and supported the launch of staking and card payment features. Worked closely with product, engineering and marketing while coordinating internal and external design resources.

Led product design for digital insurance products, owning key customer journeys from discovery to delivery. Combined hands-on UX/UI design with design leadership, mentoring and quality assurance. Facilitated design thinking workshops and design sprints, aligned user needs with business goals, and collaborated closely with product, engineering and stakeholders to drive user-centered product decisions.

Led UX and UI design for key product initiatives, facilitating design sprints and design thinking workshops. Developed user-centered concepts, interaction models and visual design systems in close collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Worked in agile, cross-functional teams, collaborating closely with product owners and engineers. Owned end-to-end UX and UI design from problem definition and requirements gathering to production-ready solutions. Conducted user research, usability testing and prototyping, developed interaction concepts and visual design systems, and applied Design Thinking methodologies as both practitioner and coach.

Contributed to UX, UI and visual design across multiple digital products. Supported user research and usability testing, translated insights into interaction concepts, and designed user flows and interfaces in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Created digital marketing assets including newsletters, landing pages, social media content and online campaigns. Designed and implemented email marketing materials using HTML/CSS and supported the German marketing team.

Supported digital marketing initiatives through web analytics, landing page creation, A/B testing and campaign optimization. Conducted user and market research and translated insights into marketing concepts and workshop materials.

Conception and design of corporate designs, brochures, posters, business stationery, etc. on print as well as small websites, landing pages and some other digital assets.

Preparation of internal trainings // Scheduling, support and supervision of internal and external examination (nationwide) at SAP branches and partners

Kundenbetreuung & Vertrieb

One year internship as part of the Digital and Print Media Designer Apprenticeship // Working as a Digital and Print Media Designer // Conception & realisation of business stationarys, corporate designs, booklets and flyers // Realisation of web designs, web assets and other creatives // Working with HTML and CSS

project management, ebusiness, online marketing, PR, CRM, marketing concepts, interface design, CMS, innovation management, human resources management, business management, database publishing, media didactics, intercultural communication, intellectual property protection, research methods

marketing, marketing concepts, media economics, media law, graphic design I+II, media design, multimedia communication, financial management & accounting, controlling, prepress, material in print engineering, book binding, printing technology I+II, databases, quality management