Jan Kiekeben
Design Lead at Freelance
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Kiekeben is a Design Lead and coach with 10 years of experience building empowered product trios and scaling user-centered practices across startups and large organisations. Currently leading design for Supply & Customer Satisfaction at refurbed, he focuses on mentoring teams, raising discovery and validation standards, and aligning product strategy with user needs. Previously he founded UX and research practices in green tech and led DesignOps and discovery coaching at XING, where he also implemented a company-wide product designer career model. Jan blends hands-on interaction design and prototyping expertise with systems-level process design, and is known for turning discovery habits into measurable product outcomes. Based in Hamburg, he’s a self-described “cat guy” who brings a pragmatic, coaching-first approach to growing design capability.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur (eqivalent to M.B.A) Print-Media-Management, Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur (eqivalent to M.B.A) Print-Media-Management at Stuttgart Media University
German, English
Github Skills (3)
sketch-app4
sketch4
sketch-plugin3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
chieferson/pattern-library-starterkit
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
xoakx/hackathon2016
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
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