Julien Milliès
Senior Design Director / Head of Design · Brand ·
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Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
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About me
Intro
I'm a senior design director with 20+ years of experience across brand, product, UX/UI, design systems and digital strategy. I help companies put structure back into complex digital environments — especially when products are scaling, systems are fragmenting, or brand and product have started to drift apart. I've worked with startups, agencies, institutions and international groups, often where design has to connect strategy, product experience, brand systems and hands-on execution. My work sits between strategic direction and hands-on execution: shaping product and brand systems, reducing design debt, and improving interfaces so that design decisions hold up against real business and technical constraints — and product, brand and engineering can move in the same direction. Core areas: Product Design · UX/UI · Design Systems · Brand Systems · Digital Strategy · Creative Direction · Front-End Collaboration Interested in senior in-house roles where product, brand and digital execution need to work together.
Work experience
Design Director
Julien Milliès
Jan 2013 - Present
13 years 10 months
End-to-end brand and product design by Julien Milliès
Co-Founder / Design Director
SKARAND
Jan 2019 - May 2025
6 years 5 months
Co-founded a strategic design consultancy working across brand systems, digital products, UX/UI, and digital transformation. Led projects from positioning and creative direction to design systems, prototyping, and implementation in collaboration with clients, product teams, and technical partners. Selected work included GE Healthcare, Carré Blanc, and Pour Les Gourmets.
Exoskills
Jan 2016 - Jan 2019
3 years 1 month
Partner / Design Director
Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
1 year 11 months
Led design across brand systems, digital products, and enterprise platforms, combining creative direction, UX/UI, and implementation-aware design in collaboration with technical and cross-functional teams.
Design Director
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
1 year 3 months
Led UX/UI, brand systems, and digital experience work across enterprise, product, and transformation-focused projects, including ENGIE Darwin’s wind and solar asset-monitoring ecosystem.
Design Director / Head Of Digital
Pajama Consulting
Jun 2014 - Jan 2016
1 year 8 months
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Led digital transformation and UX/UI work for international clients including JetBrains, Telenor and NTT Data, across brand systems, product launches and multi-market digital platforms. Managed design teams across Russia, Germany, and Norway, working with distributed stakeholders across technical, product, and brand environments.
Design Director
Groupe 361°
Sep 2013 - Jul 2014
11 months
Led digital design work across corporate, pharmaceutical, and consumer campaign environments, producing brand and web experiences for international clients across regulated and fast-moving communication contexts.
EWA
Jun 2006 - Dec 2012
6 years 7 months
Design Director
Jun 2009 - Dec 2012
3 years 7 months
EWA – Awwwards
Art Director
Jun 2006 - Jul 2009
3 years 2 months
Art Director
Diplomatic cover
Apr 2005 - Mar 2006
1 year
Interactive Art Director & Flash Developer
Art Director
Julien MillièsFreelance
Jun 2002 - May 2005
3 years