Canada

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Product Design

UX Research

Digital Marketing

AI Design

Robbie Schweidler

Director of Product Design

Typography

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Empathy

Team player

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Content creation

Design systems

LinkedIn writing

User research

Product roadmap

Webflow

ChatGPT

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe After Effects

Leadership

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

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

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

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

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

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

Managing a remote team

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

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

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

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

Breaking into tech

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

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

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

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

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

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

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Built an automotive AI voice platform from zero to live revenue, securing early dealership adoption and growing to 15 partners over a 16-month period. Owned end-to-end product design, including voice UX, product roadmap, strategy, brand, and marketing design. Led and mentored a design team of two, partnering with a six-person engineering team to ship and scale the AI agent product.

Founded the design function at a 2,000+ dealership EV Automotive Marketplace.

Led product design across a high-growth phase, contributing to a $30M Series A raise
through rapid experimentation and conversion-led optimisation.

Web, iOS, App design. Cryptocurrency trading experience UX design.
Team management and mentorship.

Led product and campaign design, supporting North Star Metrics for New Customer Acquisition,
Fundraising, Product, and Marketing design.

Worked on the global brand design for the 2018 launch of Amazon Fresh and Prime Now,
supporting design alignment across North America, Europe, and Asia for direct-to-consumer
ecommerce shopping.

Delivered product and UI design across MailOnline and Metro.co.uk, covering B2C mobile apps,
responsive web design, and marketing campaigns, while creating scalable design and production
systems for Snapchat Discover in the U.S. and U.K. that enabled high-volume publishing and
contributed to audience growth and ad revenue performance.

Robbie Schweidler🇨🇦