Eleonore de Lusignan

Hexagon UX France Chapter Lead

Salary / Daily rate

51100 Reims, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Strategy & ConsultingUX Product DesignKnowledge ManagementAdobe IllustratorProject Management (PMO)Talent AcquisitionAdobe PhotoshopSketchFigmaUI Product DesignAdobe InDesignCanva

Languages

EnglishFrench

About me

Intro

Senior Product Design Leader with 10+ years of experience scaling design teams and delivering impactful user experiences across diverse industries. Successfully built PayFit's in-house Design Studio and led design strategy for developer tools at Datadog, while championing gender diversity as Hexagon UX France Chapter Lead. I transform complex challenges into intuitive experiences while elevating design practices through strategic leadership and user-centered methodologies.

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Work experience

Freelance - Innovation Onsite Facilitator

Arianee

Oct 2024 - Nov 2024

2 months

Paris, France

Ran a series of workshops with the entire team (29p) in order to stimulate creative innovation and collaborative direction. Generated 20 ideas that the company will pursue in their roadmap to drive the implementation of digital passports for appliances to extend their lifespan.

Product Design Manager

Datadog

Jan 2024 - Jul 2024

7 months

Paris, France

Led design team for developer experiences tools, enabling faster, high-quality code delivery (CI/CD, testing, IDE, error tracking, code quality & security). Coached designers in career growth and design excellence. Responsible for hiring strategy, ensuring OKRs, and roadmaps in collaboration with Engineering and Product.

PayFit France

Dec 2019 - Dec 2023

4 years 1 month

Paris, France

Product Design Director Payroll Platform

Sep 2021 - Dec 2023

2 years 4 months

Paris, France

Shape the design vision for the Payroll Platform Solution that is used to automate and adapt our product to local HR policies, working in triad with Engineering and Product Management Directors. - Lead and driving excellence of a team 1 to 7 designers. - Improve performance time and automation of payroll experience. - Strategic research to design end to end Payroll experience. - Partner with Engineers, CS, compliance, stakeholders, to understand both customers, operational & business needs. - UX advocate and coach of engineers and product managers to increase user-centered practices. - Define product roadmap, team organization, OKRs and hiring strategy. - Partner with other design directors and VPs to raise the quality bar of our practice.

Director Of User Experience

Dec 2019 - Mar 2022

2 years 4 months

Paris Area, France

Built and scaled PayFit’s in-house Design Studio, leading system design, UX research, and design strategy. Expanded the team and scaled the Design System across the platform, including low-code. Partnered with leadership to shape design operations and talent strategy.

Lead UX Designer

WEDIGITALGARDEN

Mar 2019 - Dec 2019

10 months

Paris Area, France

Led a cross-functional team of 10 UX/UI designers in redesigning Sodexo's multinational Employee Benefits Rewards portal across web and mobile platforms. Established cohesive design systems and brand identity while ensuring seamless experiences across multiple countries. Drove all phases of user research, defined and facilitated co-creation workshops, and provided strategic consulting to clients. Created scenarios, prototypes, and conducted comprehensive user testing to validate solutions. Maintained a transversal role across multi-squad "tribe" projects, ensuring coherent user experiences while guiding client product vision. Established DesignOps and ResearchOps frameworks to optimize design governance and operations, creating scalable design processes that improved team efficiency and output quality.

Senior UX Designer

WeDigital.Garden

Jun 2017 - Mar 2019

1 year 10 months

Paris Area, France

Conducted UX research and product design for various projects, including: - French paramedics app: Field research and business model workshops to optimize patient transport experiences. - Airline landing gear maintenance platform: UXR including 18 user interviews across 15 countries to shape digital after-sales services. - Retail inventory app: Led ideation workshops, prototyping, and usability testing in 4 countries.

Avanade

Mar 2015 - Jul 2017

2 years 5 months

Paris Area, France

Senior User Experience Designer

Dec 2016 - Jul 2017

8 months

Paris Area, France

Led UX research and design for digital transformation projects across industries (Sanofi, Airbus, L’Oréal, Hermes, Japan Tobacco International). Conducted user research, problem framing, and strategy workshops to enhance business applications (Intranets, CRM, ERP, analytics). Collaborated with product owners and engineers to prototype, test, and refine user flows and information architecture.

User Experience Consultant

Mar 2015 - Dec 2016

1 year 10 months

Paris Area, France

Digital Project Manager & UX Designer

Air Paris Agency

Jul 2013 - Mar 2015

1 year 9 months

Paris Area, France

Air Paris is an advertising and communications agency, specialized in the fashion, fragrance, jewellery, spirits and beauty industries. As a digital project manager and UX designer, I am responsible for overseeing and coordinating the agency’s digital experience projects starting from ideation to design development and production. I Also participate in new business pitches, by benchmarking and developing 360° concept ideas, briefing and coordinating design teams to build the digital experience proposals. Tasks include : - Client relations, managing designers, contractors, and web developers. - Setting deadlines and launching objectives. Analysing and reporting results. - Defining the user experience and ergonomics of the site by providing wireframes, site workflows and specifications guidelines for the client and developers. - Developing communications material for off and online campaigns - Testing websites through the QC period before launch. - managing client budgets and estimates. www.airparisagency.com

Branding and User Experience Designer

FreelanceFreelance

May 2012 - Jul 2013

1 year 3 months

Paris Area, France

Air Paris - Project Management & UX Design Makina Corpus (open source software, mapping & data analytics) - UX design, animating client ideation workshops, research, paper prototyping, wireframing, workflow analysis Pascalie designs - Merchandise PLV and Packaging Design Atracsys LLC Graphic design and interactive display concept development Infinvision - Methodology and design process development, graphic design and concept moodboards Paris-Est D.School at École des Ponts - Video Animation & Web design for GDF Suez student project Dojocrea - Consulting for the incubator’s startups and giving feedback on their products and services

Assistant Art Director / Project Manager

NOUVELOEUVRE, innovation & design agency

Nov 2009 - Oct 2012

3 years

Paris Area, France

Work primarily in the food packaging industry with clients such as Lu France (Kraft Foods Company), Intersnack ( Vico, Monster Munch), Costes F&B ( Hotel Costes, Paris), and Vahiné (McCORMICK France SAS). As a project manager and designer, I was responsible for overseeing the process of developing packaging design solutions, client relations, conducting brand & product audits, creating client presentations, organizing events and photo shoots. http://www.nouveloeuvre.com/

Assistant to Head of Operations - Internship

LIFT Conference

Nov 2008 - Jul 2009

9 months

Geneva Area, Switzerland

Project Manager, curator, and administrative work for Lift Conference SàRL, a company specialized in organizing international conferences that explore the social implications of new technologies. Geneva, CH

Graphic Designer

Brown University

May 2008 - Aug 2008

4 months

Providence, RI, USA

Freelance graphic designer for a student-run community project for the Center of Environmental Studies. Created marketing material to promote the use of compact fluorescent light bulbs in low-income households.

Exhibit design for Partly Sunny : Designs to change the forecast

RISD

Jan 2008 - Aug 2008

8 months

Providence, RI, USA

The show was commissioned by the City of Denver’s office of public engagement for Diolog:City, during the Democratic National Convention in August 2008. Alongside 20 fellow classmates, and RISD Professor Charlier Cannon, I helped curate, design, coordinate, manage and develop this exhibit showcasing 36 international design projects and initiatives in the private and public sector, that address challenges posed by climate change. The exhibit covered 6 topic areas: energy, land, transportation, food, buildings, and water. Our goal was to demonstrate how design can trigger individual choices, community investments, or even national policies, building healthier, more sustainable communities.


Education

École Intuit Lab

Master's degree

2009 - 2010

1 year 1 month

Rhode Island School of Design

Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)

2004 - 2008

4 years 1 month

Strate, Ecole de Design

RISD Foreign Exchange Program

2007 - 2007

1 month


Licenses & certifications

AI for Designers

Issued: Feb 2025

Certified by IxDF - Interaction Design Foundation

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