hi, i'm dominic.

i'm a product design leader builder based in SF. i'm a dad. i love sports. i love traveling the world. i love milk. and i am passionate about designing simple, useful and attractive interactive products that bring a smile to the lips and a flutter to the heartheart.

this is me

2023

Joined Personio as Product Design Director to lead design across Personio's core platform and AI — Workflow Automation, Documents, Analytics, Time and AI — spanning 15+ product teams and 14 product designers, including 2 design managers.

  • Workflow Automation: envisioned and shipped Personio's most used feature Work Management from scratch (0→1) and launched the Workflow Builder, plus broader themes like smart automation and cross-product interconnectivity
  • Onboarding: launched completely revamped employee onboarding experience
  • People Analytics: fully overhauled Analytics, including Report Builder, Key Metrics, and early AI features like Metric Highlights and Proactive Insights
  • AI Assistant, Time Tracking, and Document Signatures: additional areas I've led
Matej HrescakPedro MarquesWill DawsonGui SchneiderKarol KlabischPaul Jun
2021

Moved to San Francisco to lead design across all of Flexport's logistics apps (FFA, Ocean, Consol, Finance) — 25+ product designers, design managers, design ops, and researchers.

  • Flexport Forwarding App: re-designed and shipped operations tooling from scratch
    • Onboarded 100% of ops (+3k users)
    • Automated 20% of tasks saving $20Mil and cut time per shipment by 42%
  • Grew the design org from 12 to 27 across 6 locations (US, CN, EU)
Giorgio GalantiOleksii MasliievChris Sims
2020

Joined Flexport as Design Director in Shenzhen (first designer outside of the US) to build up the China and Europe design + research org from scratch — 0 to 12 designers and researchers across Customer and Ops facing product areas.

Giorgio GalantiAnnie ZhuZihan ChenJonathan YuAndrew DashYi Hao
2019

Did a Business Design MBA at d.MBA.

2014

Moved to Shanghai, China to set up and run Bosch UX's APAC studio.

Giorgio GalantiMarc MoreraJoyce Jun
2012

Joined Bosch's design and innovation agency Bosch UX in Stuttgart, Germany.

Simone BosatelliAdriaan van Egmond
2011

Left downunder and travelled the world after graduating with a Master's in Computer Science with First-Class Honors.

2009

Joined CNR Engineering as founding interaction designer to build sustainable energy tooling for architects.

2008

Moved to New Zealand to study Computer Science with focus on Human-Computer Interaction under Andy Cockburn in the HCI lab at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.

2007

Graduated and moved to China to fully immerse myself into the Chinese culture, language and food — yummm — and study Mandarin.

2005

Went to China for the first time for an internship and absolutely loved it.

2003

Started studying Information Engineering at the University of Konstanz.

fun stuff

wanna connect

let's grab coffee. i'm always up for a great flatwhite and a good convo around design, product, or anything beyond (think rugby, snowboarding, or food…).