Dominic Winkler

Dominic Winkler

Product Design Director in San Francisco, He/him

About

I am passionate about designing simple, useful and attractive interactive products that bring a smile to the lips and a flutter to the heart.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
2021 — 2023
San Francisco, USA
  • Managed and led design globally across all Logistics Applications (Forwarding, Ocean, Consol/Air, Trucking, Warehousing) - more than 25 product teams, 23 direct reports plus 4 in-directs
  • Managed and expanded design team across 6 locations, staffed product domains and prioritized in accordance with Annual Plan/Roadmap
  • Continuous talent management, from sourcing and hiring to coaching and ppl development
  • Partnered with tech counterparts to set and drive product vision, strategy and metric to meet business and user needs
  • Initiated multiple highly strategic Tech projects (FF App, Communication, etc.)
  • Set design vision across Flexport’s most important tech project: FF App (Flexport Forwarding Application)
  • Established and continuously challenged/improved/iterated on design processes and team rituals
2020 — 2021
Shenzhen, China
  • Built up Design and Research team for China and Europe from scratch
  • Managed and led design and research across multiple domains (Customer Platform, Operations Tooling, Customs and Platform) for China and Europe
  • Established design team, culture and processes
  • Tech liaison for business counterparts in Asia
2014 — 2020
Shanghai, China
  • Built up and led Bosch’s internal design and innovation agency in China
  • Managed ~10 direct reports (UX, Visual and Industrial Designers, Researchers)
  • Acquired and managed UX projects across the whole product range of Bosch such as autonomous driving, 2-wheeler, e-mobility, construction business, smart home, healthcare, ...
  • Research, interaction design and prototyping of innovative solutions (concept and refinement)
  • Enabling Bosch in UX as part of C/UX and built up of UX activities across Bosch Asia Pacific
2012 — 2014
Stuttgart, Germany

Project Manager and User Experience Designer (Interaction Design/Rapid Prototyping) at Bosch C/UX

2009 — 2011
Interaction Designer at CNR Engineering
Christchurch, New Zealand

Interaction Designer (Research, Design, Prototyping, Development and User Testing) working on simulation tool for sustainable energy buildings

Education

2019 — 2019
MBA at d.MBA

Business Design

2008 — 2011
Master of Science at University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand

Master of (Computer) Science with First Class Honours and focus on Human-Computer Interaction

2003 — 2007
Bachelor of Science at University of Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany

Bachelor of Science in Information Engineering with focus on Human-Computer Interaction

Contact

LinkedIn

Awards

2019

Orbit - a connected smartphone app - together with Croc - the smart integration of helmet as well as smartphone - won the CES Innovation award as "Integrated connectivity solution for eScooters".

Side Projects

2018

Visualizing user centric design: Rethinking Batman’s classic outfit