
Marine Bucher
Experience Design Lead
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Veen, Netherlands
Freelance
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About me
Intro
Strategic design leader with 7+ years driving business transformation through human-centered innovation. Delivered 113% MRR increase and led cross-functional teams at top organizations like ANZ and Humankind. Expert in service design, design operations, and turning complex challenges into impactful solutions that boost employee engagement and business growth.
Work experience
Humankind
Jan 2022 - May 2025
3 years 5 months
Wellington, New Zealand
Experience Design Lead
Jul 2024 - May 2025
11 months
Wellington, New Zealand
Led strategic projects for diverse clients, enhancing employee experiences and driving a 113% increase internally in Monthly Recurring Revenue through innovative design solutions.
Senior Service Designer
Jan 2022 - May 2025
3 years 5 months
Wellington, New Zealand
Skills: Information and Communications Technology (ICT) · Human Resources (HR) · Rapid Prototyping · Visual Storytelling · Staff Retention · Team Culture · Business Insights · Briefing · Organization Skills · Design Management · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Building Performance · Workshop Facilitation · Strategy · Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) · Employee Engagement · Project Management · Workshops · Design · Attention to Detail
Design Mentor
DesignlabFreelance
Nov 2021 - Aug 2024
2 years 10 months
San Francisco, CA, USA
- Supporting continuous learning through creating, feedback, and iteration to boost student progress. - Offering guidance on navigating the design industry, career advice, and insider insights into market and industries.
Design Operations Manager
ANZ
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
1 year 9 months
Responsible for leading Design Operations in New Zealand who play a central role in ensuring the design community is highly efficient, inspired and create impact. - Served as a “right hand” to the Design COE lead and Design Leadership team. - Built an onboarding experience for Designers and used this program to support onboarding in Technology and Marketing across the bank. - Practice and evangelise Agile and Human centered Design methodologies driving a culture of experimenting and learning. - Optimise team-wide ways of working and identify & lead opportunities for process and improvements.
Co-founder
Reusabowl
Oct 2018 - Mar 2021
2 years 6 months
Wellington, New Zealand
Skills: Rapid Prototyping · Visual Storytelling · Team Culture · Business Insights · Organization Skills · Design Management · Workshop Facilitation · Strategy · Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) · Workshops · Design
Optimal Workshop
May 2018 - Mar 2020
1 year 11 months
Wellington, New Zealand
Design Faculty Lead
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
1 year
Wellington, New Zealand
Be the point of contact for Design in an agile environment with cross-functional teams. Support the faculty in the execution of the company strategy. Foster learning between designers, improve tools and processes. Contribute to the growth of the faculty.
Product Designer
May 2018 - Mar 2020
1 year 11 months
Wellington, New Zealand
Work collaboratively with business stakeholders, UX writers and researchers Design prototypes including developers early in the Design process Run Usability tests and share user's feedback with the rest of the business Work in hand with Developers Iterate to continuously make our product better for our users Creator of Accessibility Monthly to get Accessibility as part of our everyday processes Active member of the Green team to make our workplace a better place Experimenting with new ways of working to be inclusive and innovative
Host
Design Assembly
Jan 2017 - May 2018
1 year 5 months
Wellington, New Zealand
I host events and represent Design Assembly in Wellington. I also interview some talented designers based in New Zealand for the Design Assembly website. http://designassembly.org.nz/?s=marine+bucher
Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
May 2016 - May 2018
2 years 1 month
Digital Designer
May 2016 - May 2018
2 years 1 month
So far I have been working on the following different projects: - Project Management and assets Design for a 360 experience. - Product Design using Illustrator, Photoshop and Invision alongside a UX designer, Business Analyst, and developers. - Website design in an agile way using Illustrator, Photoshop and Invision alongside a UX designer, Business Analyst, and developers. This project has been the most collaborative project I have done so far working alongside the client which has been so fulfilling. Our design, client and developers team were in total harmony for the finish site. - Games and experience built using HTML, CSS and Java script. Working alongside Educational Designer to develop interactive experiences for a better learning.
Graphic Designer
May 2016 - May 2017
1 year 1 month
I have been working on the following: - Marketing materials for internal communications. - Work with HR on digital forms and set up a style and library for better usability. - Created Tee shirts for a white label product launch. - Designed all collaterals for an education exhibition.
Co-creator
KLAP le magazine culturel
Oct 2011 - Oct 2016
5 years 1 month
Région de Paris, France
Identified cultural aspects that could interest a range of urban and traveller readers between 18 and 30 years old Negotiated with brands and different sponsors to ameliorate themes and content of the magazine Managed the editorial team of 25 writers, editors and cameramen
Teacher in Graphic Design
ACG Yoobee School of Design
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
6 months
Wellington, New Zealand
Short course Delivered over two to three days, the level is mainly beginner and I am taking students through Adobe Creative programs to develop the content they need. I taught an InDesign short course, as well as a Fashion illustration one with Illustrator. Training course The course is run two evenings per week over seven weeks. The level goes from beginner to intermediate. I covered three Adobe programs: Indesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. I taught design, color and typography theory. Gave assignments and projects using all the programs to students to train them as well as followed and helped on personal projects they had.
Graphic Designer
Samdog Design Ltd
May 2014 - Mar 2016
1 year 11 months
Wellington, New Zealand
I delivered solutions for a variety of design and on-line projects ranging from brand and design projects through to immersive websites utilising responsive design, video, and the latest in web and mobile technology.
Creative Designer
Create Joy
May 2014 - May 2015
1 year 1 month
London, UK
Development and new business teams to brainstorm possible solutions to client business needs. Lead and/or facilitate the presentation of deliverables to clients (creative concepts, site organisation, requirements, plans, etc.) Ensure that all projects meet accepted best practices in usability and design and support agency developed branding and strategic initiatives.
Account assistant
Eleven PR (part of the WHYBIN\TBWA group)
Jun 2013 - Oct 2013
5 months
Région de Sydney, Australie
Acquired general knowledge in the PR industry including concept development, PR strategy and copywriting. Worked on PR monthly reports Designed Powerpoint for presentations
Assistant Project Manager
Auditoire
Sep 2011 - Mar 2012
7 months
Paris, France
Gained general knowledge of the event planning industry including production, event management, logistics and budge.t Actively worked on up to three projects at a time, succeeding in all the events. Managed the technical team for the last event and trained new arrivals at the company.
Freelance Journalist
Lagardère
Apr 2010 - May 2011
1 year 2 months
Région de Paris, France
Wrote articles for the fashion and beauty sections of the magazine Assisted the editor in chief for all fashion shootings Managed the “WEB” section, interviewing bloggers and writing about foreign e-store.
Journalist
Ministère Défense
Jul 2010 - Aug 2010
2 months
Région de Paris, France
Daily news synthesis Weekly meeting “Press with the Ministry of Defence” Wrote interviews and articles for the internal website
Education
d.MBA
Business course for Senior Designers
2024 - 2024
3 months
Codecademy
Certificate Freelance Website Development
2017 - 2017
1 month
Shillington Education
Certificate IV Graphic Design
2013 - 2013
1 month
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Master's degree
2010 - 2011
1 year 1 month
Université Paris 8
Bachelor's degree
2007 - 2010
3 years 1 month
Universidad de Sevilla
Bachelor's degree
2008 - 2008
1 month
Lycée Rochambeau
BAC
2003 - 2006
3 years 1 month