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Dean Fankhauser

Product leader who builds things people use.

Ten years contracting as a product and UX lead for Google, LVMH, Jaguar Land Rover and Santander. Built and led product at Nuji, acquired by Klarna in 2020, and at three commercial products since.

  • Nuji

    acquired by Klarna, 2020

  • Google

    UX Lead, contract

  • LVMH

    24 Sèvres

  • Jaguar Land Rover

    UX Lead, contract

  • Santander

    Senior Innovation Partner

Selected work

How I work

I have done every part of this job myself, so I know which parts compress and which ones do not.

Discovery

Talking to the people with the problem before I write anything down. Where the data is thin I go and get it rather than reasoning around the gap.

Strategy

Mostly deciding what not to build. Roadmaps fail on subtraction far more often than on addition.

Design

I still work in the file. Wireframes, flows, design systems, prototypes. It is faster than describing what I mean and hoping it lands.

Delivery

Engineers and I look at the real constraints instead of a plan that assumed none. Cut scope early, not late.

Measurement

Instrument the thing before launch and the outcome is a fact rather than an argument.

  • Product strategy
  • Discovery
  • Roadmapping
  • Customer research
  • UX and interaction design
  • Prototyping
  • Experimentation
  • Analytics
  • Monetisation
  • Growth
  • Marketplace design
  • B2B and API products
  • Design systems
  • Cross-functional leadership
  • Go-to-market

I have spent my career building digital products. A decade of that was contracting inside other people’s organisations. The years since have been spent running product on my own account.

Large-company work taught me how to move something through a bank. Small-company work taught me how much can be done in a week.

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