Sjoerd van Rijen

Sjoerd van Rijen

Senior Product Designer in Amsterdam, He/Him

About

I'm an Amsterdam-based Sr. Product Designer with 10+ years of experience, passionate about helping the development of brand-new digital products, digital product marketing, and coaching young talent.

Currently, I’m helping the Portals and reviews team at WeTransfer to make the client review process less tedious. Before this, I worked on Paste by WeTransfer, cool innovation and digital products at Your Majesty, and mobile innovations at IceMobile.

Contact

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Projects

2022

Portals' main goal is to make the client review process less tedious. With portals and reviews, we’re trying to expedite feedback and decision-making for creatives and their clients. Creatives get features to present their work and guide their clients’ attention while clients get features to express their feedback in context and on time.

2020

Working with a small disciplinary team on Paste, a new product in WeTransfer's suite of creative tools aimed at automating design for presentations. I'm mostly focussing on growing our user base and improving our product through research, product design, product marketing, and art direction spread out over multiple teams in our product org.

2017

Together with a multidisciplinary team, we collaborated to define the future of WeTransfer for Mobile. After researching how people consume inspiration, we tried to tackle the problem of not having one place to collect and keep your inspiration. I was part of the core team of 4 that took the product from ideation to launch in 9 months. After that, I was heavily involved in product marketing and communication design.

2016

I was lucky to be part of the redesign of WeTransfer in 2016. With a core team of 8, we tried to create a faster, more secure, and more reliable service through research and design. 5 months later, we rolled out the new WeTransfer to 195 countries.

2014

Your Majesty was invited in 2014 to design and build the online platform for Volkshotel, a new hotel/club/restaurant/creative space, located in an old newspaper building in Amsterdam. We created this vibrant online space for users to explore this weirdness.

Side Projects

2019

Finding the best burger in town

2017

Preparing Dutch first-time voters

Work Experience

2020 — Now
Senior Product Designer at WeTransfer
Amsterdam

Working together with a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers to create new digital products for WeTransfer. Being daily involved in User Research, User Testing, Ideation / Brainstorms, Art Direction, UX Design, UI Design, and Prototyping.

Feb 2022 – Now
Product designer Portals & Reviews

May 2020 – Feb 2022
Product designer Paste by WeTransfer

2018 — 2020
Amsterdam

Together with a multi-disciplinary team, I worked on campaigns and products for clients like Airbnb, Samsung, Dopper, APB, and the V&A museum.

2016 — 2018
Product Designer at WeTransfer
Amsterdam

Working together with a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers to create new digital products for WeTransfer. Being daily involved in User Research, User Testing, Ideation / Brainstorms, Art Direction, UX Design, UI Design, and Prototyping.

Mar 2016 – Nov 2016
Redesign WeTransfer.com

Nov 2016 – Jan 2018
WeTransfer for iOS & Android, now known as Collect

Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Product designer Subscriber Succes team.

2015 — 2016
Product & visual designer at Present Plus
Amsterdam