Summary
Claus Hollensteiner is a founding designer and product design specialist with 12 years of experience helping startups scale from early to growth stages, now based in Berlin. He builds design functions end-to-end—creating design systems, introducing design operations, and defining visual brand languages that persist across teams. Claus has led product design at companies like Contentful and Back, growing in-house design teams and streamlining product development processes while also shipping hands-on UI and front-end work. As a freelancer and founding designer, he pairs strategic positioning with pragmatic execution, often bridging design and front-end development to accelerate delivery. Notably, he has a track record of introducing modular architectures and design guidelines that reduce friction between product, engineering, and marketing.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
German, English