Jens Nikolaus
Head Of Design at pganalyze
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorJens Nikolaus is a design-led product leader with 15 years of experience shaping digital products and teams, currently Head of Design at pganalyze after joining as a consultant. He blends hands-on design, product management, and occasional coding to create discovery frameworks, high-fidelity prototypes, and iterative delivery processes that bridge business strategy with user needs. Jens is practiced in customer research using Jobs-to-be-Done and active listening, translating complex problems into actionable insights while fostering cross-functional collaboration and mentoring. His background spans startups, media, and enterprise (Last.fm, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Hewlett Packard Enterprise), giving him fluency in both rapid product environments and structured orgs. He emphasizes constraints-driven creativity, sustainable practices, inclusion, and work-life balance—values he embeds into team culture and operational processes. Based in Fort Collins, CO, Jens brings a studio founder’s resourcefulness to scaling product teams and systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
Github Skills (38)
theming10
tidy10
grommet9
javascript9
accessibility9
responsiveness9
modularity9
react9
adobe-xd8
postgresql-database8
feather-icons7
design-tool7
feather6
hoodie6
storyboard5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jensy/100DaysofSwiftUI
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:113 commits, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
jensy/jensnikolaus.com-2023
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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