United States

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Service Design

Product Design

Design Systems

New College of California

Michael Ortlieb

Sr Mgr, Product Experience Design

Resume

Portfolio

Public Speaking

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Presentation skills

Leadership

Design systems

WordPress

Asana

Figma

HTML

Adobe Creative Suite

Stakeholder management

Organisation skills

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

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Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

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Fostering a good team culture

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Resume and portfolio review

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Breaking into tech

Leadership: Worked with other people managers and director in team to craft a new story and set new product lines and direction after a change in team’s original product set. Provided guidance and coached career advancement and growth for team.

Execution: Led a team guiding product design and user experience for tools geared towards colleagues and care teams across 200+ centers nationwide. Led experience designers and researchers to develop tools for both internal use for reporting and data analysis, optimal transport of patients to and from care centers. Product design leader for six internal products.

Mentorship: Active participant and mentor in CVS Enterprise Mentoring and Leadership Circles programs. Crafted a presentation series for designers tailored towards effective presentation with senior stakeholders and executive leadership.

Led experience design for application management, user management, documentation and notification center modules within a new Integrated Engineer's Portal (IEP) to 10x productivity for 57k engineers, managing and guiding a distributed team of 10 (US/UK).

Hands-on director of product design for a 250-person company, leading a lean team providing continuous improvement for three product lines affecting 85% of $100M revenue.

Reduced product purchase flow from 43 steps to 12; presented UX insights to executive leadership.

Led full rebrand, redesign and buildout of a SaaS-based project management application company’s marketing website, brand persona and identity system.

Brainstormed, designed, and built high-impact, rich media campaigns from initiation to post-live maintenance. Collaborated with multiple teams to launch initial ad products/executions for Kindle, Kindle Fire, iOS and Android.

Maximized revenue potential (in collaboration with editorial team) by cross-campaigning with Amazon.

Trained Amazon.com advertising designers and internal designers in code for design tools; coordinated curriculum with stakeholders and recorded training sessions for rollout to East Coast and international teams.

Michael Ortlieb🇺🇸