Thomas Schluchter
Head Of Product Design at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolThomas Schluchter is a Head of Product Design based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building high-performing design teams and shipping measurable business impact at scale. At Zalando he has led B2E and retail operations design teams, driving outcomes like a 60% reduction in banner production time and a 9 percentage-point lift in profitability through data-informed UX and rigorous execution standards. He combines hands-on interaction design and user research chops—honed at Salesforce and UC Berkeley—with technical fluency to bridge product, engineering and business stakeholders. Known for raising design quality through systems, standards and research, he also brings a background in design thinking and cultural studies that helps him translate complex organizational problems into pragmatic product solutions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Information Management and Systems Interaction Design Information Architecture, Masters in Information Management and Systems Interaction Design Information Architecture at UC Berkeley School of InformationM.A. Communication Cultural Studies Musicology, M.A. Communication Cultural Studies Musicology at Freie Universität BerlinCertificate Design Thinking, Certificate Design Thinking at Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam
German, English
Github Skills (19)
fabric8
preact7
javascript6
banking-applications4
payment3
css2
web-application2
python2
react2
xml2
tinker2
afnetworking2
linux1
bash1
serializer1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
schluchter/berlin-transport
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
schluchter/JavaScript30
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
30 Day Vanilla JS Challenge
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
jsjavascriptdayvanilla-jsvanilla-javascript
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