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Nick Mason

Director of Product Design

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

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

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

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

The Stensul Marketing Creation Platform™ reduces marketing asset creation time by up to 90% to help teams focus on improving campaign performance. With Stensul, teams launch campaigns faster by streamlining the collaboration process and simplifying creation for all marketers, so they can create marketing assets that drive results. My role at Stensul involves leading the Product & Product Design teams.

I lead the Multi-disciplinary Product Design & UX team at Valassis, developing User Centered Enterprise and Consumer focused software products and services.

I lead the Multi-disciplinary Product Design team at Valassis Digital, developing User Centered Enterprise and Consumer focused software products and services.

In October 2017, MaxPoint was acquired by Harland Clarke Holdings and became a part of Valassis Digital.

Designer - Cash Manager, focused primarily on Payment & Collection module
Lead Designer - dbPalace, a Risk & P&L application
Lead Designer - Alerting, an ecosystem of software driving the next evolution of electronic trading
Leading member of the User Experience Community of Practice, evangelizing the value of UX throughout the organisation.

Visual design, Web hosting and IT consultancy, SaaS freelance front-end development using HTML, CSS, and Javascript. 

I helped companies of all sizes define and brand their User Experiences by establishing user stories, use cases, and holistic design & experience style guides that allow development teams to stay true to the company's message.

Provided layout requirements, graphical assets, and interaction designs for multiple CDMA Rest-of-World product lines.

Projects ranged from Graphic Design and Interaction design as an embedded contractor for various clients, Usability Lab setup and support, and in-house needs assessment and planning along with IT coordination with Humancentric's designated IT provider.

At SGC I managed a team of 3 Inside Sales Representatives.

As a team we were tasked with meeting weekly sales goals by maintaining a relationship with current customers as well as finding & acquiring new business.

A few of my personal tasks included the creation of an efficient reporting system using Crystal Reports that would help quantify growth in certain market segments, and the assistance in implementation of Microsoft Sharepoint to act as a knowledge base for the entire company.

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