United Kingdom

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Design Operations

Service Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Taisa Echer

Senior Product Designer Manager | Lead Product Designer

Usability Testing

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Leadership

User research

Product roadmap

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Collaboration

Project management

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

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

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

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

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

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

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

Working with engineers

- Responsible for managing and mentoring part of the Product Design team, including overseeing career development, performance reviews, providing constructive feedback and fostering an environment of learning and growth. 
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure that Product Designers have all the necessary resources to create feasible products that meet customer needs and business goals.
- Collaborate with other Product Design Managers and the Senior Director to strategize for the team and the overall Product Design discipline. This involves working together to define Team OKRs, individual goals, competencies, and the future of Design at Oyster.
- Collaborate with other Product Design Managers and Design Ops to improve processes and practices.
- Contribute to the organization's design excellence and lead transformation initiatives in this area.
- Collaborate with UX researchers and provide support for ongoing product and market research projects.

- Leading the design of the Lifecycle domain at Oyster. Ensuring that our customers are able to hire, manage employment, and pay compliantly on a global scale.
- Work with the Product and Engineering Director to help define the strategy for Oyster's future direction in the Lifecycle domain.
- Collaborating with the domain leads to improve processes and foster better collaboration between design and P&D teams.
- Work proactively to understand user needs and define new initiatives, bringing structure to ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Lead the design process from concept to final execution, ensuring the highest quality and consistency in all deliverables. Create and iterate on wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs to effectively communicate vision and design solutions.
- Ensure the experience solutions are simple, clear, and compelling. 
- Collaborate with researchers to develop strategic research, conduct testing, and leverage findings to influence business-wide priorities and direction.
- Advocate for users and customers, providing strategic design leadership to create a shared understanding of the customer-centric intersection of design, business, and technology needs.
- Promote user-centred design principles and best practices within the organisation.

- Working on the Hiring team, creating features to ensure Oyster hires, manages, and automates employment contract generation compliantly across 60+ countries.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, such as product managers, engineers, legal, and CS, to shape the product roadmap, identify opportunities, and prioritize initiatives based on user needs, aligning with business goals and technical constraints.
- Lead the design process from concept to final execution, ensuring the highest quality and consistency in all deliverables. Created and iterated on wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs to effectively communicate vision and design solutions.
- Collaborate with researchers to conduct research and testing, analyse the impact, and identify opportunities to improve team features.
- Hold and participate in weekly design critiques.
- Work closely with engineers and other stakeholders to guarantee the high-quality implementation of features.

Working on many projects from conceptual ideas to solve a new problem to iterating on an existing feature. 

I work alongside a product team creating flows and interfaces that are simple, tailored and delightful; working closely with developers during the whole process.

I gather insight into our users’ needs, behaviours, and intentions, providing input into the long-term roadmap and short-term product improvements. Translating customer needs into flows and interface designs that make complex processes feel simple.

I help the company understand and analyse pain points in our current customer journey, validate hypotheses with user testing and data, and design new flows. Exploring different ways to implement new features in the UI, working with sketches, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, mockups, etc.

Product Design, UX, UI, Service Design, Strategy, Leadership, Product Management, Branding, SaaS, B2B, B2C.

Working on the development of new products, improving and creating digital experiences for services. Managing and expanding the design system. Working closely with Lead designer, engineers and product managers to support the long-term strategy and short-term tactics for products.

Product Design, UX, UI, Service Design, Branding, SaaS, B2B, B2C.

Concept, Visual and UX designer working closely with copywriter, strategy and account managers on the development of various projects, propositions, products and services. Focus on visual design, user experience, interaction design and rapid prototyping.

Some clients I work for include Disneyland Paris, Hive, British Gas, Sky, and UK Power Networks.

Working together with head of marketing on the development of strategies and design projects. Thinking creatively, generating new ideas and concepts to improve brands' presence and solutions for marketing challenges.

Coordinating projects of various types of brand materials (online and offline). Ensuring visual consistency across all of them.

- Planning client's social media propositions.
- Development of contents and online marketing campaigns ensuring coherence with brand’s profile.
- Creative thinking to come up with contents, improving web presence.
- Web metrics evaluation and data reporting.
- Monitoring social media performance.
- Scenario evaluation, evaluation of competitors and how they act and stand in social media.
- Monthly review of client’s positioning and strategies, whether they reach their goals.
- Monitoring and developing brands language and online replies.
- Making monthly reports for brands.
- Search new acting opportunities for brands in the digital context.
- Client service
- Managing investment and budget for social media advertisements.
- Support creative team through development of advertising actions.

Responsible for developing communication strategies online and offline for brands. Working for different clients simultaneously in projects of many segments (food, furniture, fashion, bank, home utilities, tourism, gyms, education, etc)

Combining different tools to interpret client briefs/brand’s purpose and developing a communication positioning that is efficient to the client’s target audience. Always pursuing new ways of communicating in different media formats.

- Holding meetings with clients to have a better understanding of their products and services, so to identify business issues and develop solutions through creative ideas.
- Deep understanding of client’s audience, competition, business challenges, opportunities and sector trends.
- Develop market research and competitors research.
- Checking what has been done in the communication of each brand to understand its history
- Develop briefing pack for the creative team, providing product info, strategy and target audience.
- Follow up creative process of campaigns together with art directors and copywriters.
- Research and monitoring behaviour trends.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve agency offers and process
- Work with Client Services to write and present strategic thinking
- Follow up product research Presenting strategies for clients Projects schedule
- Relationships with external partners (media, research, data to drive effective campaigns that meet or exceed targets)
- Media planning
- Target audience monitoring, etc.

Responsible for developing creative ideas for advertisement campaigns. Development of visual concept and graphic design together with copywriter for all kinds of media: Banners, billboards, leaflets, magazines, films, books, e-books, websites, etc.

Worked in a creative team with planners, copywriters, accountants, final and digital artists
for brands from different segments.

- Taking part in meetings with accountants and clients for having a wider view of the client’s objectives. Development of visual identity, logo, campaign artworks.
- Think of different ideas for communication.
- Presenting concepts and campaigns to managers and clients.
- Evaluation to identify whether the visual communication matches the brands' strategy and meets the objective of the creation.
- Co-creation with the production team, photographers, illustrators, stylists, etc.

Responsible for art direction of campaigns for clients of the fashion segment, developing planning of graphics and digital projects.

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