Summary
Mark De Jong is a Senior Product Manager focused on Digital Design Experience with 11 years of hands-on experience marrying design systems, frontend engineering, and product operations. Based in Billund and currently at the LEGO Group, he drives tool selection, workflow scaling, and change management to make design teams more productive while preserving creative quality. Previously he led the Design Systems Platform as a Lead Engineer and built the Backbase Design System from the ground up as a Technical Product Owner and Principal Frontend Engineer, combining technical depth with stakeholder-facing product strategy. Known for translating Figma-driven UX into robust, reusable front-end implementations, he also mentors teams and builds adoption processes that stick. A background in multimedia design and early freelance work gives him a pragmatic design-first perspective that informs his operational and metric-driven approach.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Short-term course candidate, Basic Level Chinese Language, Short-term course candidate, Basic Level Chinese Language at Beijing Language and Culture University
none, Commercial, Presentation & Communication, none, Commercial, Presentation & Communication at Sint Lucas Boxtel
Bachelor, Multimedia Design, Bachelor, Multimedia Design at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam
English, Chinese, Korean, German, Dutch, Danish