Marine Bucher

Experience Design Lead

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Veen, Netherlands

Freelance

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EnglishFrenchSpanish

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Kalyn (KP) Ponti

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Member

Recommended on 05 february 2025

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New Zealand Rugby

Head of People & Capability

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Michelle Walter

ANZ

Operations Lead, Innovation, Partnerships and Design

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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.

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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

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